location services
Everytime I change my location services to "enabled" in my system preferences, within minutes it has changed back! I close the lock everytime.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13
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Everytime I change my location services to "enabled" in my system preferences, within minutes it has changed back! I close the lock everytime.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13
Hey there wabbak,
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand Location Services is not staying enabled on your Mac. We’ll be happy to help.
Boot into safe mode and see if the issue returns there. Safe mode can help you to determine whether an issue is caused by software that loads as your Mac starts up. You can read how to do this here:
How to use safe mode on your Mac
Check for any updates to macOS as well:
How to update the software on your Mac
We hope this helps. Take care.
Hey there wabbak,
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. We understand Location Services is not staying enabled on your Mac. We’ll be happy to help.
Boot into safe mode and see if the issue returns there. Safe mode can help you to determine whether an issue is caused by software that loads as your Mac starts up. You can read how to do this here:
How to use safe mode on your Mac
Check for any updates to macOS as well:
How to update the software on your Mac
We hope this helps. Take care.
To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this...
Open System Preferences>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account.
Does it work in the new account?
Might be CMM itself though...
Uninstall CleanMyMac per their directions , then run etrecheck again to see what chaff it left...
On CMM…
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251370955?answerId=252661013022#252661013022
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251442443?answerId=252814053022#252814053022
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251464557?answerId=252841819022#252841819022
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251889446?answerId=253629452022#253629452022
I did as you suggested, and it seems to work!!! Lets see if it lasts, thank you for now!!!
I'm afraid I'm back to square one!!! The location services turns itself off after a couple of minutes. The fix was temprary. any suggestions, anyone?
Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?
Which Browser are you using also?
Chrome. Sometimes ExpressVPN. From time to time Clean My Mac. CMM doesn’t change lication services. I’ll check and see if EVPN makes a difference. I doubt it, as I hardly use it.
location services