iOS 8 Location Based Reminders Not Working

I think I figured it out!

Go to Location Services > System Services > Location-Based Alerts and turn it on.

I was finding that every time I turned location services to ALWAYS for Reminders it kept reverting to OFF status. Once I turned Location-Based Alerts back ON, things began to work again.

so after testing to see it made a difference I can confirm 8 out of 10 times it worked but its still not 100 percent. Perhaps its an area thing i dont know but Hopefully engineering will fix it if they discover an issue. they took logs from my iphone to see exactly whats going on

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Re: Is anyone else experiencing reminders settings turning off on its own?

I also have struggled with location-based reminders in iOS 8 for a while now, probably like @MoltenTesseract. I can't get them to work at all.

Here is a list of everything I've tried:

1) hard reset of phone

2) fresh reinstall of iOS

3) turned location settings off and on for Reminders

4) deleted actual reminder and re-set

5) checked notification settings are ON for Reminders and set to appear on lock screen

I'm stumped. The alerts never happen. Please see attached screen shots. The one that perplexes me is the location setting for Reminders. There is no "Always" option like there is for other apps. Help!

Hey thanks... I will try to reset privacy settings and see if that works.

Resetting privacy settings worked. Thank you!

(I'm still having an issue whereby location-based reminders do not work if they are created by Siri, but that's another story. I'm assuming that's a bigger system bug.)

I've done some more digging. It seems that if

1) you also have an Exchange account on your phone (which I do)

2) you must have Reminders for the Exchange account turned on, but not set to default (which I didn't)

Very, very odd as to why you can't have Reminders for the Exchange account turned off, but when I enabled it, location-based reminders set using Siri seem to work again.

Well I spoke too soon. I created a test with Siri to remind me when I got home and it worked. I created another test to remind me when I got to work and it didn't work.

SO.... I have no idea why it works sometimes but not others.

Just read this on another thread posted by @climber12we in this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5422515

I can attest to the fact that abw5 has provided a solution to get location based reminders working again. Since this is a bug in the OS each iPhone may react a little bit differently. In my case the Reset Location and Privacy worked perfectly in forcing the location based reminders to work again without the Reminders app running in the foreground or the background. However, on my iPhone the fix is broken if I go to: Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > and turned off any single service (NOT including "Cell Network Search" "Wi-Fi Networking", "Frequent locations" or "Traffic")

Since this is a bug I believe that each individual iPhone will react slightly different to the fix. But the fix provided here did fix the issue as long as I don't turn off any of the "System Services"

So the issue might be that sometimes I go into "System Services" and turn some of these off, like "Location-Based iAds". So, I will reset all and not touch them! I will test again and report back.

Interesting. I had the same problem, but turning OFF reminders for the exchange account fixed it. Certainly weird.

These steps have indeed corrected all my problems:

1) Go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Location and Privacy and reset.

2) Then, DO NOT go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services and turned off any single service.

Location-based reminders, set up manually and with Siri, are now both working.

I had this same issue. I asked Siri and she said my calendar (exchange) doesn't support this service. I went into my mail settings and turned off "reminders" from exchange. That fixed it for me.