Didupdatelocations Not Called

didUpdateLocations not being called

This is way late for an answer, but I stumbled across this when I was having the same issue (didChangeAuthorizationStatus was being called but not didUpdateLocations). Well of course it's something not code related, but rather I was testing in the simulator which did not have a location set. Thus the location was never found, resulting in didUpdateLocations never being called.

To fix this... in the simulator go to Debug -> Location-> <choose location>.

EDIT It should also be noted that locationManager:didFailWithError: will run if the location is not set in the simulator, as you'd expect.

didUpdateLocations never called

where do you start the location update ? for example:

//location manager
    lazy var locationManager: CLLocationManager = {
        var _locationManager = CLLocationManager()
        _locationManager.delegate = self
        _locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters
        _locationManager.activityType = . automotiveNavigation
        _locationManager.distanceFilter = 10.0  // Movement threshold for new events
        _locationManager.allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates = true // allow in background

        return _locationManager
    }()

    if CLLocationManager.locationServicesEnabled() {
                locationManager.startUpdatingLocation() // start location manager

            }

here is a working conroller code:
also important to to set up Custom iOS Target Properties.

Add these two lines to the Info.plist:

NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription

NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription

//
//  ViewController.swift
//  LocationTest2

import UIKit
import CoreLocation

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    //location manager
    lazy var locationManager: CLLocationManager = {
        var _locationManager = CLLocationManager()
        _locationManager.delegate = self
        _locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters
        _locationManager.activityType = . automotiveNavigation
        _locationManager.distanceFilter = 10.0  // Movement threshold for new events
      //  _locationManager.allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates = true // allow in background

        return _locationManager
    }()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }

    override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillAppear(animated)

        //allow location use
        locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()

        print("did load")
        print(locationManager)

        //get current user location for startup
       // if CLLocationManager.locationServicesEnabled() {
            locationManager.startUpdatingLocation()
       // }
    }
}

// MARK: - CLLocationManagerDelegate
extension ViewController: CLLocationManagerDelegate {

    func locationManager(manager: CLLocationManager, didUpdateLocations locations: [CLLocation]) {

        for location in locations {

            print("**********************")
            print("Long \(location.coordinate.longitude)")
            print("Lati \(location.coordinate.latitude)")
            print("Alt \(location.altitude)")
            print("Sped \(location.speed)")
            print("Accu \(location.horizontalAccuracy)")

            print("**********************")

        }
    }

}

Why is locationManager (:didUpdateLocations) not called

You need to make

let locManager = CLLocationManager()

an instance var to hold a strong reference for the delegate , also you either need 1 of these

locManager.startUpdatingLocation()
locManager.requestLocation()

didUpdateLocations not working in Swift 3

I would reccomend you to move the code that manages the Location to a class like this one. This code is from an app i made a few months ago, i tested it to see if it works and i does. So give it a try. You just need to create an object of this class. I left a commented print in the method locationManager(:didupdate), you can uncomment it to see all the changes in you location.

I know it is not perfect but it got me the job done.

import Foundation
import MapKit
import CoreLocation

class Location: CLLocationManager, CLLocationManagerDelegate  {
    private var latitude:Double
    private var longitud:Double
    private let locationManager = CLLocationManager()

    /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*/
    override init() {
        self.latitude = 0.0
        self.longitud = 0.0
        self.locationManager.requestWhenInUseAuthorization()

        super.init()

        if CLLocationManager.locationServicesEnabled() {
            self.locationManager.delegate = self
            self.locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters
            self.locationManager.requestAlwaysAuthorization()
            self.locationManager.startUpdatingLocation()
        }
    }

    /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*/
    internal func locationManager(_ manager: CLLocationManager, didUpdateLocations locations: [CLLocation]) {
        let locValue:CLLocationCoordinate2D = (manager.location?.coordinate)!
        //print("locations = \(locValue.latitude) \(locValue.longitude)")

        self.latitude = locValue.latitude
        self.longitud = locValue.longitude
    }

    /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*/
    func getLatitude()->NSNumber{
        return self.latitude as NSNumber
    }

    /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -*/
    func getLongitude()->NSNumber{
        return self.longitud as NSNumber
    }

}

didUpdateLocations not getting called swift 3

Make sure you assign the delegate:

self.locationManager.delegate = self

CLLocationManager requestLocation not calling didUpdateLocations

Without seeing your full main window code, I bet that the problem is with the scope and lifecycle of your controller:

override func viewDidLoad() {
  let weather = DarkSkyWeatherController()
  weather.weatherGetterDelegate = self
  weather.getLocation()
  // Function exits. The weather constant dies off. 
  // This is why you don't get callbacks.
}

Do the following, instead.

let weather = DarkSkyWeatherController()
override func viewDidLoad() {
  weather.weatherGetterDelegate = self
  weather.getLocation()
  // Function exits, but the weather constant lives on as a field of your main ViewController. You'll get your callbacks now.
}

didUpdateLocations not being called when app is in background

I have integrated NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription in info.plist. Background modes have been enabled and Location Updates option has been selected

Good, but in iOS 9 there's a further requirement: you have to set the location manager's allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates to YES. You are not doing that, so you're not going to get background location updates.

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