startMonitoringForRegion doesn't fire didEnterRegion and didExitRegion
I'm doing some test using estimote beacons and regions.
Reading the documentation as I start monitoring a region I'm going to tell my delegate that a specific region is being monitored, however, didEnterRegion and didExitRegion are never fired.
My delegate fires:
-(void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager *)manager didRangeBeacons:(NSArray *)beacons inRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion *)region
and
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didDetermineState:(CLRegionState)state forRegion:(CLRegion *)region
I didn't check if an error occurs into locationManager:didFailWithError:
At the moment I'm using the state to manually run two private methods that work as didEnter and didExit - in this case I'm also able to monitor the region but I didn't get why locationManager:didEnterRegion: and locationManager:didExitRegion: are never called.
Is someone facing the same behavior?
Answer
There are several items to check. The one that addressed my problem was Enabling Background App Refresh in your device's settings (see screenshot below). I had this disabled as a battery saving measure. Monitoring will not work if this is disabled.
If this doesn't address your problem there is a great post you can read that details all of the items to troubleshoot.
