iOS 8: Region Monitoring, how to make it work

Question

Here's the code snippet. Below.

// Initialize the region with the Estimote iBeacon manually generated UUID of 16 bytes size.
NSUUID *estimoteUUID = [[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:[Repository getiBeaconRegionUUID]];
_beaconRegion = [[CLBeaconRegion alloc] initWithProximityUUID:estimoteUUID
                                                  identifier:@"A"];

// Launch app when display is turned on and inside region.
_beaconRegion.notifyEntryStateOnDisplay = YES;

// Create a location manager
_locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
// Set delegate
_locationManager.delegate = self;
if ([CLLocationManager isMonitoringAvailableForClass:[CLBeaconRegion class]])
{
    [_locationManager requestAlwaysAuthorization];

    [_locationManager startMonitoringForRegion:_beaconRegion];

    // Get status update right away for UI
    [_locationManager requestStateForRegion:_beaconRegion];
}
else
    NSLog(@"This device does not support monitoring beacon regions");

There is the NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription added to the app. plist.

There was never the dialog with the text from the key above.

In Settings => Privacy => Location Services for the app. was turned off after the first app. run.

The delegate method

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

is never called.

In iOS 7 the same app. worked without the authorization request.

Share your experience.

Answer 1

After I added NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription key-value pair into InfoPlist.strings it showed the dialog and started to work.