An app does not appear under location services

An app that requires location services does not appear under location services, thus preventing me from enabling locations on that app and also preventing me from using the app.

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.6

Posted on Mar 27, 2014 7:43 PM

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Posted on Mar 27, 2014 7:48 PM

If location services are not enabled for the app, as soon as you try to use it, it should prompt you if you want to use location services and you can answer yes. It would not normally show up there until it has attempted to use them and been denied.

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Mar 27, 2014 8:38 PM in response to Gypsy5

No problem. I wanted to give you some other user troubleshooting, but didn't want to repeat anything you had already done. Since you turned the iPhone off and on, that is the first step. The next step is a reset. Hold the sleep/wake and home buttons until you see the Apple logo and then release. The phone will reboot. If it still won't work, then check to see if you have Locations services restricted in Settings. If not, then you can try going to Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. See if that gets the prompt. If not, I don't think it is work trying to go through a restore, up to you. And I agree, stellar customer service on their part.


Seeing your screen name reminds me of my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Good luck with the phone.

May 28, 2017 11:27 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

This is a pretty useless response, something is going wrong with the iPhone's iOS, since it is the iOS settings that are going wrong, so clearly apple is involved.


I'm also having this issue with Google Maps, 52 other people as well apparently, probably with various apps but always iOS.


So please can you raise this issue in the QA ticketing, or ask someone technical what could be going wrong with the UX flow? Thanks.

Mar 27, 2014 8:33 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

I thought it was agreat business strategy haha. I tried deleting and re-downloading multiple times; with location services on, with it off, turning my phone off and on between. I tried changing other notification settings... I can't think of anything else. That's why I came here. And it's not the end of the world, it's just a stupid free app but it bothers me i can't figure it out. My username should be Stubborn

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