Location services won't turn off

Looks like you currently have Settings > General > Restrictions > Location Services (under the 'Privacy' heading) set to 'Don't Allow Changes' - change it to 'Allow Changes'

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If you have find my iphone enabled, you will need to turn that off (requires you to enter your iCloud password to do so) before you can disable location services.

Similarly, on an iPhone, if your carrier offers it and you use wifi calling, you will need to disable that as well in System Services before you can disable location services. Certain features, like find my iphone, wifi calling, homekit, emergency SOS - all these require location services be enabled.

So under location services, the location services toggle switch is grayed out, like I have no permission to change it whatsoever. I have the location services in the restrictions section checked to allow changes, and it seems no matter what I do I cannot gain access to this. Any thoughts

i have just solve this case as the following, try it.

even though i have never enable the restriction but i tried to enable it now and access Restrictions > Share My Location.

change it to Allow to change "Allow Changes".

then go to Privacy > Location service.

you will find it enabled to change.

that helped me and it worked good.

First go to settings>general>restriction then turn it on. Now under restriction, go to location and services and toggle on and off the location button. (see my screenshot) then turn off restrictions, now you're good to go. Hope this helps!

I'm having the same problem. Location services seems to be stuck in the on position no or "greyed" out. I don't have any restrictions set either.

These are user-to-users forums, you won't get a reply from Apple on here.

You've tried temporarily enabling restrictions and toggling the Location Services restrictions to 'Don't Allow Changes' and back to 'Allow Changes', and tried closing the Settings app via the iPad's taskbar, and doing a soft-reset - and if that doesn't fix it then you've also tried backing up (and copying purchases over to your computer's iTunes library via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases), and restoring to the backup ?

I tried all that and when setting it up I opted not to enable location services. I found that I can turn location services on but not off and I can turn off locations for everything one by one except the share location feature, as it is also "greyed" out.

I downgraded to 8.2 and that fixed the problem for me. I followed the instructions here:http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/04/08/how-to-downgrade-to-ios-8-2-from-ios-8-3 / . Hope this helps you as well.

i have the same problem - have tried everything mentioned in this thread already but still cannot turn off location under the privacy settings as it remains grayed out. I have an iPad Air 2 running iOS 8.4.1 (latest version).

Anyone have a solution or know of a fix not yet mentioned above? I've tried everything I know and read without resolution.

THanks in advance!

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Thank you, I was having the exact same issue and this worked for me! I had restrictions disabled but the "Share My Location" part of it still had a lock next to it and was set to "Don't allow changes". This setting was not being overruled by the master enable/disable restrictions setting like it should have been and was preventing me from turning location services on and off.

What you have to do is go to Settings -> General -> Restrictions and go to the Privacy section. There you need to disable Share my location. If that is on it overrides the controls for switching off the location services. Honestly if you can't turn a feature off they need to have a little bubble with an explanation as to why you can't turn it off instead of having people searching all over the **** device for the reason why. It's called being user friendly.

I Had the same thing happen. The "allow changes" was ticked in my settings and still it didn't work. I disabled my restrictions in settings and suddenly the location services allowed me to turn it off as it was no longer greyed out....

Then I reset my restrictions and everything was back to normal. Hope this helps.....

Settings > General > Restrictions > Share my location(allow changs) this will let you turn of your location servic!

Read through this thread, the fix may take several attempts turning on & off restrictions, location services & share my location:

Location services completely grey since ios8!