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Location Services for Safari missing. Bug?

BB714

BB714

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Jul 21, 2025
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When looking in the system preferences, there is no option for Safari. I can't adjust any of my location preferences on my Mac. Other apps are present, just not safari. I’ve toggled the main switch and restarted etc to no avail. Anyone else have this bug?
 
It will appear after any website in Safari asks for location permission for first time - just like most of other apps do.
 
I just tested it out and it worked.
Check Websites -> Location in Safari settings. If default setting ("when visiting other websites") is set to Deny then it would not work. Default for that settings is "Ask"
 
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Curly1 said:
I really don’t want to do that. Might have to though. Did you use Time Machine after you reset the computer? Thanks.
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I'm not using Time Machine for Backup. I have my own rsync scripts to backup my files on nas and external USB Disks.
 
according to google search /var/db/locationd/clients.plist contains all permissions for location services. so maybe removing all safari entries from this file could work. but i never tried this. i think you should edit this in recovery mode
 
(apologies for bumping an old thread but I just figured out how to solve this) This is what I did:

1. Boot to recovery and disable SIP, reboot
2. Copy /var/db/locationd/clients.plist to Desktop (probably good practice to make a backup of this), open in Xcode, and remove the Dictionary "93EB3F36-1BE6-4DE0-9B33-09827243F8F0:icom.apple.Safari:"
3. Copy that file such that it overwrites /var/db/locationd/clients.plist
4. Reboot again and go to some website that will prompt Safari for location
5. Recovery again to re-enable SIP
 
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