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Tys
Tys

Reputation: 95

iOS 8 and iBeacon - kCLErrorRegionMonitoringDenied

I have been working with iBeacons for the last few months. I have just recently updated to iOS8 Beta 1 and have found that region monitoring and ranging no longer works on my beacon apps.

It is being caused by permissions. I now get a kCLErrorRegionMonitoringDenied error returned when attempting to start region monitoring. This error corresponds to a user deselecting the location permissions for the app.

If I go into Settings>Privacy>Location Services I get some weird behaviour. Sometimes my app appears on this list with no setting chosen, and other times it doesn't appear on the list at all. If I manually change the setting to 'Allow' and then close Settings, then go back to Settings>Privacy>Location Services I have the same problem - the app might not appear on the list or the settings are not set.

This is obviously a bug in iOS8 beta, just wondering if anyone else has this problem and/or found a workaround?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1566

Answers (2)

bobbypins
bobbypins

Reputation: 134

For iBeacons in iOS8, you must use requestAlwaysAuthorization, not requestWhenInUseAuthorization

(via: http://nevan.net/2014/09/core-location-manager-changes-in-ios-8/)

Upvotes: 5

Dayln
Dayln

Reputation: 11

I don't know what the issue is, but I was having the same problem, I found that going back to Xcode before the beta solved my issue. I wish I could give a better answer than that, but I guess the problem might be somewhere in Xcode and not ios 8.

I actually did more research into this and it seems ios 8 requires some authorization setup before trying to use location services. This might help answer your question further. Here are some links to direct documentation that you might find useful.check out the requestWhenInUseAuthorization documentation on info plist key This should help keep you in Xcode 6 with ios 8. sorry if I wasn't more helpful I'm fairly new to ios development.

Upvotes: 0

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