My iPhone keeps asking to use my location

I have weather widgets on my Lock Screen and Home Screen. Every few hours they show “—“ or “Location Access Needed”. When that happens I click “Allow while using App” in the popup and then when I return to the Home Screen I click Allow on the popup that says “Allow widgets from weather to use your location”. This works for a few hours and then starts all over again.

If I go into Settings and set the Weather app to “Always allow” it still reverts after a little while. No matter what I do, I have to go through this multiple times per day.

iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 17

Posted on Feb 6, 2024 4:56 AM

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Posted on Mar 25, 2024 1:52 AM

Hi,


I had this issue for several week. The issue only occurred on Apple apps "Weather", "Calendar", "Maps"I tried the below and none of it worked


  • Restarted my phone
  • Reset location services
  • Ensured location services was set to "While Using the App" or "Always."
  • Updated to latest version of ISO 17.4.1
  • Removed weather widget from my apple watch watch face and re-added them
  • Totally removed the watch face


What I did then was uninstalled the above apps and re-installed via the appstore and for the past 7 days or so messages no longer apprear. Just make sure those apps are backed up on the iCloud so when you re-insall them (especially calendar and Maps) it restores everything as it was.


I hope this helps :-)

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Sep 24, 2024 6:32 AM in response to sockethead

This issue just started happening on my devices. I see it has been reported since Feb. 2024. Help, it is annoying; I feel for those of you that it has been going on for months! My watch won't let me delete the weather app. OMG it just asked me while I am typing!

I tried turning off all the devices and Turing them on again. My devices are current on their software Updates. I don't see in the string that Apple has provided a fix. What next?

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