By Evan Hoffman on 05 September 2010, 14:00 ~ 12 Comments

Facebook for iPhone – "Places" hangs on "Locating you…"

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I decided to see how “Places” stacked up with Foursquare. I reactivated my Facebook account and reinstalled the iPhone app. Went to “Places” and clicked “Check In,” and… nothing. It mentioned something about turning on Location Services. I know I already have that enabled because other apps are using it without problem. Turns out you need to enable Location Services explicitly:

First, go to the Settings app and select General:

Settings -> General

Settings -> General

Select Location Services:

Location Services

Location Services

Make sure Facebook is enabled (On) if you want to use Places. If you want to disable Places, make sure this is set to Off.

Turn Facebook "On"

Make sure Facebook is 'On' to use Facebook Places.

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12 Responses to “Facebook for iPhone – "Places" hangs on "Locating you…"”

  1. Phil W 24 September 2010 at 15:28:23 Permalink

    Thanks so much! I had the same problem and it was driving me crazy!

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    • brenton g 29 December 2010 at 23:53:35 Permalink

      worked a treat

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  2. Chris G 26 March 2011 at 18:01:16 Permalink

    I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while…Thanks!

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  3. kiwileese 5 April 2011 at 23:42:00 Permalink

    Thank you! this has been driving me crazy trying to work it out!!

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  4. Shelley 6 April 2011 at 19:17:24 Permalink

    my general settings doesnt have the location services there! Is that normal haha

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    • Cody 8 April 2011 at 21:55:38 Permalink

      If you don’t show location services, go into Restrictions. Enable them set a pw and then turn on FB then you can disable again and it should work.

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  5. Janet S 9 April 2011 at 06:07:38 Permalink

    Thank you so much. Other people were describing the settings on facebook, when what I needed was the setting on the phone itself. Thanks again

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  6. jade H 12 April 2011 at 16:39:39 Permalink

    this helped so much!
    i couldnt figure out what hppened?
    thanks!

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  7. jake motz 22 April 2011 at 11:36:10 Permalink

    how can i turn off any tracking but still keep find my phone?
    this is a good article thanks

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  8. JAZZYRHON 23 April 2011 at 18:11:47 Permalink

    Thanks so much for showing me how to check in at my location. I been wanting to do it but when i read the facebook help it would say setting..but they didnt (general) setting of your iphone not my setting in my facebook page.. the screen shot help alot.. I had to restrictions then location services.

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  9. Jalyn S 11 May 2011 at 03:09:21 Permalink

    Thank you for the info! Extremely helpful article.

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  10. PMG 26 May 2011 at 15:19:28 Permalink

    Thank uuuuuuuu !

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