Is there truly any way to check if the user has given permissions or not from my app? Any hacky ways?

[lewisd1996]

Hi guys,

Apple obviously makes it difficult for us to know whether or not a user has given us permissions or not.

However, it must be possible to somehow determine if the permissions are granted or not. The reason I know this is there are some apps that have seemed to accomplish this. One example is a fitness app called FiiT.

If you turn off the data permissions in your iPhone's settings and head back to the FiiT app, they have a toggle will be set to false. Head back to your iPhone settings and turn them back on, go back to the FiiT app and it's successfully reflected the change, the toggle is now true.

Does anyone have any idea's of how they're hacking their way of knowing whether its on or not?

Perhaps they are attempting to write some "dummy" data on load and if it fails, they assume it's not allowed? If it's successful, they delete it and tell the user it's connected?

[lewisd1996]

Ah, so it seems that their READ permissions have no effect on whether their app says they have the permissions, however the WRITE ones do. If I turn off all write permissions but turn read on, their app does nothing. So i guess to have this sort of functionality, you have to be using write permissions. And even then, you'll never know the read permissions true value.