PhoneGap geolocation asks for permission twice on iPhone

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My app uses navigator.geolocation provided by PhoneGap. When running the app on iPhone is asks for location permissions twice, i guess one for the app and one for safari, how do i solve this?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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I was having the same problem, but this fixed it: Location permission alert on iPhone with PhoneGap

you have to rely on OnDeviceReady(), and it'll only call once.

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answered Feb 23 '12 at 19:16

Michael Belt

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 12 '15 at 05:39

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Call the geolocation initialisation in onDeviceReady Method and load this in body tag

function onDeviceReady(){
    return navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(initialize);
}

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answered May 12 '15 at 05:19

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This did not work for me somehow. It asks for permissions twice – Biswas Khayargoli Dec 23 '19 at 08:22

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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I think i found the solution, at least did it work for me: some files of the geolocation plugin were missing! You can find my solution here.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered Dec 23 '13 at 21:20

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 30 '11 at 11:42

Unfortunately, you can't disable the second alert, because it is coming from WebKit and not iOS. However, I suggest you write a bug on the WebKit Bugzilla and ask them to disable the second alert when PhoneGap is being used in an app if you believe two confirmation messages will be confusing to the user.

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PhoneGap geolocation asks for permission twice on iPhone

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