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Grogu
Grogu

Reputation: 2475

HTML5 Geolocation not prompting for location on Safari browser

I'm trying to get Safari to prompt me for my location with a very simple code. I'm working on a remote Macbook mini from my PC running Ubuntu. Inside the Macbook environment, the code below works on Firefox and Chrome perfectly fine. But on Safari nothing happens, I don't get prompt or nothing. I wish I received any errors in the console but the function does not even fire at all. Nothing happens. Nada. Anyone has ever faced a problem like this?

If I go and try it here on W3Schools same thing happen, meaning I click on Try it and nothing happens. But it works fine in all other browsers.

code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p>Click the button to get your coordinates.</p>

<button onclick="getLocation()">Try It</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
var x = document.getElementById("demo");

function getLocation() {
  if (navigator.geolocation) {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition);
  } else { 
    x.innerHTML = "Geolocation is not supported by this browser.";
  }
}

function showPosition(position) {
  x.innerHTML = "Latitude: " + position.coords.latitude + 
  "<br>Longitude: " + position.coords.longitude;
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7070

Answers (2)

Grogu
Grogu

Reputation: 2475

I solved my problem by handling errors. Safari and ios seem to require error handling to work.

This works :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<p>Click the button to get your coordinates.</p>

<button onclick="getLocation()">Try It</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
var x = document.getElementById("demo");

function getLocation() {
  if (navigator.geolocation) {
    navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition, showError);
  } else { 
    x.innerHTML = "Geolocation is not supported by this browser.";
  }
}

function showPosition(position) {
  x.innerHTML = "Latitude: " + position.coords.latitude + 
  "<br>Longitude: " + position.coords.longitude;
}

function showError(error) {
  switch(error.code) {
    case error.PERMISSION_DENIED:
      x.innerHTML = "User denied the request for Geolocation."
      break;
    case error.POSITION_UNAVAILABLE:
      x.innerHTML = "Location information is unavailable."
      break;
    case error.TIMEOUT:
      x.innerHTML = "The request to get user location timed out."
      break;
    case error.UNKNOWN_ERROR:
      x.innerHTML = "An unknown error occurred."
      break;
  }
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 1

Mukund Goel
Mukund Goel

Reputation: 599

Go to Finder -> Apple -> System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy then add Safari to the whitelist. Try if that works.

Or

In Safari select Safari > Preferences. Click the Privacy icon in the Preferences window. Unselect the "Deny without prompting" option.

Upvotes: 4

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