Location services completely grey since ios8!

Hi, I was getting crazy and none of the solutions worked.

Then, right before dressing one of those crazy people's shirt, i figured out that under

Setting > General > Restrictions > down to the box Privacy, there's a Share My Location forgotten setting, mostly mistaken by the Location Services on top of this box...

To regain control, you mus get back to the top of Restrictions, enable Restrictions, go back to the Privacy box , click on Share My Location and then select Allow Changes

There are lots of duplicated controls and almost hidden features on iOS 8.

I believe Apple is deviating too much from its UI origins. They should read the original manuals again and again. While Windows 8 is making thiings easier, iOS and OSX are making it harde at every new edition.

Jobs shouldn't have died...

Setting > General > Restrictions > down to the box Privacy, there's a Share My Location forgotten setting, mostly mistaken by the Location Services on top of this box...

To regain control, you mus get back to the top of Restrictions, enable Restrictions, go back to the Privacy box , click on Share My Location and then select Allow Changes

Jose E R Azevedo - you just kept me from pulling my hair out in clumps. I tried EVERYTHING else in this thread, and nothing worked until this. THIS WORKED!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! Best. Christmas. Present. EVER.

OyyVeyy, glad I was helpful! I was getting crazy too!!

Another day I was playing with an old iPhone 3G. Everything was SO much easier to find. I can't understand why software companies, in a certain point of their lives, star to screw things, overcomplicating what was easy and worked.

Contrary to those who work there, we don't live to understand OSX or iOS8 or else. We just want these things to work and do what we want them to do. In an unobtrusive way. like it used to be. Apple has LOTS of manuals on Graphic User Interface and man x machine relationship. These must be greek to new workers (and some older ones too...).

Have a great Christmas and an amzing 2015! My best!

This fixed it for me thanks a lot!

OMG!!! I've spent an hour trying everything everyone was saying to do, and THIS was the only demonstration that works! Thank you!!!

This is the solution that helped me.

If you go into Settings > General, I had tried going into Restrictions and turning them on and making sure Location Services was turned on in there, Allowing Changes, and that Share My Location was turned on in there also. Made no difference. My Friend Finder still had location services grayed out.

It wasn't until I scrolled all the way to the bottom of Restrictions > Location Services and tapped on System Services that I saw the problem. There is ANOTHER Share My Location switch in there which was turned off. (Really??? Why does there have to be two?) Talk about counter-intuitive. Since when did Apple UI/UX stoop to the every-man-for-himself-go-find-the-buried-setting standard of Microsoft? Shameful.

Thank you, thank you thank you.

OH my goodness! Thank you! Same exact issue, and I had tried all above steps until I ran across yours, LegendMaker! Missed that duplicate button. So my question is, what is different now that restrictions are turned on? What is the purpose of all those settings?

Voila! Success with your suggestions! Thank you! Tried every other suggestion by others, nothing worked. Not sure why this has to be so complicated...

Yep, there we go. worked for me too. thanks!

Was struggling with this for months.

Wow, thanks.I totally overlooked that setting and was really close to completely restoring my phone. Interestingly enough that's the only suggestion the Genius Bar employee had as well.

WOOT! Yes! I also tried everything else on this thread, and this is the fix that finally gave me my privacy back. THANK YOU.

How can one turn on "share my location" without going through pvivacy and location services?

Doesnt make sense to me

and what if i dont want to share my location?

my location services are switched on and grayed out. And i dont want to have my location looked at

one thing is for certain; the more options Apple adds, the more crossed wires get built into iOS

i dont want location services, and even i notice with all possible location spying deactivated on my other devices, when i take a photo, and upload to dyptic or instagram, it still knows exactly where i am

Big Advertising Data Miner Brother is here for good.

Hate it. Im thinking of going back to film camera and a normal old telephony based mobile phone from 1999

Yesterday in iMessage is said to a friend "ill send you an invoice"

Next thing i go to Facebook and see ads served on me which say 'invoice management services'

So how does facebook know what private chats i am having in iMessage?

Here is an answer for ioS10. Worked perfectly for me.

https://www.technipages.com/cant-change-location-services-setting-ios