Enable Location Services automatically

Expo SDK
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Hi everyone!

For the case when Location.hasServicesEnabledAsync() returns false I would like to prompt the user with a modal saying that the location services need to be enabled and when the user taps an OK button to automatically turn on the Location services - like it happens in the Uber app for example.
Is there any way to achieve this? While researching a way to do this I saw on some pull request Location.enableNetworkProviderAsync() - could this be a solution and if so where can I find more details about it?

Thank you for a reply! :slight_smile:

2

Hi @flavia!

Have you already taken a look at the Expo Permissions API? You can request permission for location services using that.

I’m not sure if this answers your question, so let me know!

3

Hi @charliecruzan!

Yes I am using that as well and it works for the case when I have location services enabled manually, but I still would like to be enable Location services automatically, here’s what I am doing:

let servicesEnabled = await Location.hasServicesEnabledAsync();
if (!servicesEnabled) {
//want to enable
alert(‘You need to enable location services on your device’);
return;
}
let {status} = await Permissions.askAsync(Permissions.LOCATION);
if (status !== ‘granted’) {
alert(‘you need to grant location permissions’);
return;
}

//after this I am doing
let region = await Location.getCurrentPositionAsync({});

If I do just await Permissions.askAsync(Permissions.LOCATION); I get an error with the message Location services are disabled.

Is there something I am missing?

Thank you!
Flavia

4

Ah okay. No, you need to get explicit permission from the user to access their location, I don’t believe there’s any way to enable it automatically without prompting.

5

Yes, I want to implement a modal with an OK button to ask the user to enable location and when the user taps on OK I want to be able to enable location services such that the user doesn’t have to. Is this possible?

Thank you!

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