Location services is not available on my new iPhone 17

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Location services is not available on my new iPhone 17

The location services is not available on my phone. When I go to privacy and security in the settings, the location services is greyed out and unavailable. What do I need to do?

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Original Title: New iPhone 17 location services

iPhone 17

Posted on Oct 6, 2025 8:42 AM

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Questi99 Author

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Oct 13, 2025 3:22 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Somehow, during the set up of the new phone a setting to limit children using the phone to a certain amount of time was switched on that was interfering with the location services. Wish I could better explain.

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Questi99 Author

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Oct 7, 2025 6:06 PM in response to Questi99

Genius bar fixed it

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Oct 7, 2025 6:10 PM in response to Questi99

For the benefit of others, what was the fix?

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Location services is not available on my new iPhone 17

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