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# CLAuthorizationStatus

Constants that indicate the app’s authorization to use location services.

```
enum CLAuthorizationStatus
```

## Overview

Handle changes to authorization status in your location manager’s delegate method, [`locationManager(_:didChangeAuthorization:)`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLLocationManagerDelegate/locationManager(_:didChangeAuthorization:)).

## Topics

### Getting the authorization status

[`kCLAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLAuthorizationStatus/notDetermined)

The user has not chosen whether the app can use location services.

[`kCLAuthorizationStatusRestricted`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLAuthorizationStatus/restricted)

The app is not authorized to use location services.

[`kCLAuthorizationStatusDenied`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLAuthorizationStatus/denied)

The user denied the use of location services for the app or they are disabled globally in Settings.

[`kCLAuthorizationStatusAuthorized`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLAuthorizationStatus/authorized)

The user authorized the app to use location services.

[`kCLAuthorizationStatusAuthorizedAlways`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLAuthorizationStatus/authorizedAlways)

The user authorized the app to start location services at any time.

[`kCLAuthorizationStatusAuthorizedWhenInUse`](/documentation/CoreLocation/CLAuthorizationStatus/authorizedWhenInUse)

The user authorized the app to start location services while it is in use.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`RawRepresentable`](/documentation/Swift/RawRepresentable)

[`BitwiseCopyable`](/documentation/Swift/BitwiseCopyable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

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