iOS requestStateForRegion returning .unknown after didStartMonitoringFor

Confused about why my AppDelegate CLLocationManager sometimes can't successfully determine CLRegionState (CLRegionState.unknown), even though I am making sure to not call requestStateForRegion until after didStartMonitoringForRegion. Seems like some sort of race condition that I don't understand how I'm not handling.

Related, what am I supposed to do when I get CLRegionState.unknown? Keep requesting state until I get something? (that seems bad)

AppDelegate:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication*)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary*)launchOptions
{   
    self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
    [self.locationManager setDelegate:self];
return [super application:application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions];

}


(void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didStartMonitoringForRegion:(nonnull CLRegion *)region {

NSLog(@“%@”, [NSString stringWithFormat:@“didStartMonitoringFor region with ID: %@”, region.identifier]);

// delay per https://stackoverflow.com/a/33288103/3380970

double delayInSeconds = 2.0;

dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(delayInSeconds * NSEC_PER_SEC));

dispatch_after(popTime, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void) {

[self.locationManager requestStateForRegion:region];

});

}


(void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didDetermineState:(CLRegionState)state forRegion:(nonnull CLRegion *)region {

NSLog(@“%@”, [NSString stringWithFormat:@“didDetermineState from AppDelegate CLLocationManager: %@ (%ld)”, region.identifier, (long)state ]);

NSString *baseUrl = [self fetchBaseUrl];

switch (state) {

case CLRegionStateInside:

NSLog(@“%@”, @“Determined .inside state for geofence”);

[HelperFunctions postGeofenceTransitionWithBaseUrl:baseUrl region:region transitionType:1];

break;

default:

break;

}

}

Abdriged logs:

Adding geofence with ID: 5:90fd74e0-cbc7-dbe5-20fc-b870203055e1

Adding geofence with ID: 8:d408f466-ea1b-6cbb-382f-f7567db61157

Adding geofence with ID: 7:ba97dda2-39a7-9b95-8ea9-ea183d69a858



didStartMonitoringFor region with ID: 5:90fd74e0-cbc7-dbe5-20fc-b870203055e1

didStartMonitoringFor region with ID: 8:d408f466-ea1b-6cbb-382f-f7567db61157

didStartMonitoringFor region with ID: 7:ba97dda2-39a7-9b95-8ea9-ea183d69a858
didDetermineState from AppDelegate CLLocationManager: 5:90fd74e0-cbc7-dbe5-20fc-b870203055e1 (0)

didDetermineState from AppDelegate CLLocationManager: 8:d408f466-ea1b-6cbb-382f-f7567db61157 (0)

didDetermineState from AppDelegate CLLocationManager: 7:ba97dda2-39a7-9b95-8ea9-ea183d69a858 (0)

Thanks

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