Enabling location services for Exposure Notification Availability Alerts

California finally rolled out an Exposure Notification app for iOS. I turned it on, but there’s a setting for “Availability Alerts” that I can’t enable because it says Location Services is turned off in Settings. Thing is, it’s not. Every other app on my phone is able to use Location Services. I can’t see any disabled app or service that might be relevant to Exposure Notifications.

On my buddy’s phone, it’s enabled. Any ideas?

Solution 1:

For "Availability Alerts" to be enabled, I believe you need to have 3 settings turned on:

• Location Services
• Location Alerts
• Significant Locations

It looks like you might not have "Significant Alerts" turned on. Go to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services and turn that on.

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