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🛠 Breaking changes
🎉 New features
🐛 Bug fixes
💡 Others
19.0.8 — 2025-12-05
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19.0.7 — 2025-09-11
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19.0.6 — 2025-09-02
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19.0.5 — 2025-08-31
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19.0.4 — 2025-08-27
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19.0.3 — 2025-08-25
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19.0.2 — 2025-08-16
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19.0.1 — 2025-08-15
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19.0.0 — 2025-08-13
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18.1.6 - 2025-07-01
💡 Others
- Remove "Please" from warnings and errors (#36862 by @brentvatne)
18.1.5 — 2025-05-08
🐛 Bug fixes
- [Android] Fix
shouldUseForegroundServicebeing alwaystrue. (#35875 by @filipef101)
18.1.4 — 2025-04-30
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18.1.3 — 2025-04-25
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18.1.2 — 2025-04-14
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18.1.1 — 2025-04-09
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18.1.0 — 2025-04-04
🐛 Bug fixes
- [Android] Add missing ProGuard rule to fix task consumer failed (#34098 by @cornejobarraza)
- [iOS]
startLocationUpdatesAsyncshould not require background permissions (#33617 by @andrejpavlovic
💡 Others
- On Android, remove dependency on
smart-location-lib. (#33609 by @alanjhughes) - [Android] Started using expo modules gradle plugin. (#34176 by @lukmccall)
- [Android] Added missing dependency. (#35822 by @lukmccall)
18.0.10 - 2025-04-01
🐛 Bug fixes
- [iOS] Fixed issue with some permission request flows resolving too soon on iOS. (#35693 by @chrfalch)
- [iOS] Remove restarting all services when CLLocationManager reports an error (#35478 by @chrfalch)
18.0.9 - 2025-03-31
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18.0.8 - 2025-03-14
💡 Others
18.0.7 - 2025-02-19
🐛 Bug fixes
- [iOS] Added guards to avoid task options to crash the app. (#35477 by @chrfalch)
- [iOS] Added error handler to the streaming location/heading methods since these can fail while streaming (#35004 by @chrfalch)
18.0.6 - 2025-02-10
🐛 Bug fixes
- [Android] Use less specific exception in catch block of
resolveUserSettingsForRequest. (#34784 by @alanjhughes)
18.0.5 - 2025-01-10
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18.0.4 - 2024-12-10
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18.0.3 - 2024-11-29
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18.0.2 — 2024-11-19
🐛 Bug fixes
18.0.1 — 2024-10-22
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18.0.0 — 2024-10-22
🛠 Breaking changes
- Remove deprecated code: geocoding using Google Maps API, old permission methods and related types. (#29961 by @Simek)
- Bumped iOS deployment target to 15.1. (#30840, #30867 by @tsapeta)
🎉 New features
🐛 Bug fixes
- On
iOS, fix an issue where if the user selects "Allow Once" for location permissions, we needed to request background permissions twice because the first time had effect. (#29272 by @alanjhughes)
💡 Others
- Added warning when using background location in Expo Go. (#31461 by @chrfalch)
- Keep using the legacy event emitter as the module is not fully migrated to Expo Modules API. (#28946 by @tsapeta)
- Rework package exports. (#29953 by @Simek)
- Updated documentation for default LocationAccuracy (#31066 by @johnculviner)
17.0.1 — 2024-04-23
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17.0.0 — 2024-04-18
🛠 Breaking changes
- [Web]
getPermissionsAsyncno longer prompts the user for permission instead we use the new browser APInavigator.permissions.queryto check the permission status. (#26836 by @hems)
🎉 New features
- Add ability to disable permissions in config plugin by passing
falseinstead of permission messages. (#28107 by @EvanBacon)
💡 Others
- drop unused web
nameproperty. (#27437 by @EvanBacon) - Removed deprecated backward compatible Gradle settings. (#28083 by @kudo)
- Fixed unit test errors. (#28208 by @kudo)
16.5.5 - 2024-02-29
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16.5.4 - 2024-02-27
🎉 New features
- [Android] Make foreground service permission opt-in with
isAndroidForegroundServiceEnabledconfig plugin option #27265 by @brentvatne) - [Android] Enable foreground service by default when background location is enabled #27359 by @brentvatne)
16.5.3 - 2024-02-06
🐛 Bug fixes
- [Android] Fixed:
NullPointerException: it must not be null. (#26688 by @lukmccall) - On
Android, prevent location service from starting when permission is not in the manifest. (#27355 by @alanjhughes)
16.5.2 - 2024-01-10
🎉 New features
- [Android] Added
formattedAddressto theLocationGeocodedAddress. (#26342 by @whysetiawan & @lukmccall) (#26342 by @whysetiawan, @lukmccall)
🐛 Bug fixes
- [Android] Fix the module requiring the
expo-task-managermodule for methods that don't use it. (#26200 by @behenate)
16.5.1 - 2023-12-19
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16.5.0 — 2023-11-14
🛠 Breaking changes
- Bumped iOS deployment target to 13.4. (#25063 by @gabrieldonadel)
- On
AndroidbumpcompileSdkVersionandtargetSdkVersionto34. (#24708 by @alanjhughes)
💡 Others
- [Android] Moved to the new Modules API. (#24737 by @behenate)
- Remove
unimodule.jsonin favour ofexpo-module.config.json. (#25100 by @reichhartd)
📚 3rd party library updates
16.4.0 — 2023-10-17
🛠 Breaking changes
16.3.0 — 2023-09-04
🎉 New features
16.2.1 — 2023-08-02
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16.2.0 — 2023-07-28
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16.1.0 - 2023-07-13
🐛 Bug fixes
- Downgrade play-services-location to 20.0.0 to support react-native-maps. (#23501 by @gabrieldonadel)
16.0.0 — 2023-06-21
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15.3.0 — 2023-06-13
📚 3rd party library updates
- Updated
com.google.android.gms:play-services-locationto21.0.1andio.nlopez.smartlocation:libraryto3.3.3(#22468 by @josephyanks)
🐛 Bug fixes
💡 Others
- On Android, removed use of deprecated
LocationRequestconstructor and replaced withLocationRequest.Builder. (#22653 by @alanjhughes) - Removed the Geocoding API service. (#22830 by @alanjhughes)
15.2.0 — 2023-05-08
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15.1.1 — 2023-02-09
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15.1.0 — 2023-02-03
🐛 Bug fixes
- Removed strict null checks for expo location and avoid crash on android. (#20792 by @jayshah123 and @forki)
- Export types with type-only annotation to fix build when using
isolatedModulesflag. (#20239 by @zakharchenkoAndrii)
💡 Others
- On Android bump
compileSdkVersionandtargetSdkVersionto33. (#20721 by @lukmccall)
15.0.1 — 2022-10-28
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15.0.0 — 2022-10-25
🛠 Breaking changes
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fixed
trueHeadingis sometimes bigger then 360 on Android. (#19629 by @lukmccall)
💡 Others
- [plugin] Migrate import from @expo/config-plugins to expo/config-plugins and @expo/config-types to expo/config. (#18855 by @brentvatne)
- Drop
@expo/config-pluginsdependency in favor of peer dependency onexpo. (#18595 by @EvanBacon)
14.3.0 — 2022-07-07
🐛 Bug fixes
14.2.1 — 2022-04-20
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14.2.0 — 2022-04-18
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fix
Plugin with id 'maven' not foundbuild error from Android Gradle 7. (#16080 by @kudo) - Fix LocationObject type (#17070 by @rakeshpetit)
⚠️ Notices
- On Android bump
compileSdkVersionto31,targetSdkVersionto31andJavaversion to11. (#16941 by @bbarthec)
14.1.0 — 2022-01-26
🐛 Bug fixes
- Allow location to work on Android with only coarse location permission. All apps do not require fine/precise location permission, but in past Expo was enforcing fine/precise even if you only needed coarse level location. (#15760 by @Noitidart)
Unpublished
🛠 Breaking changes
- Add an option to whether kill or keep the foreground service when app is killed on Android. (#15633 by @islamouzou)
- Updated
@expo/config-pluginsfrom4.0.2to4.0.14(#15621 by @EvanBacon)
14.0.2 — 2022-02-01
🐛 Bug fixes
14.0.1 — 2021-12-15
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14.0.0 — 2021-12-03
🛠 Breaking changes
🎉 New features
- Added steetNumber to
reverseGeocodeAsyncfor iOS (#13556 by @chrisdrackett)
🐛 Bug fixes
- Call
jobService.jobFinishedfor the finished geofencing jobs. (#14786 by @mdmitry01) - Check for null value of
mLocationClientto prevent a crash (#15023 by @zakharchenkoAndrii)
💡 Others
- Extract nested
foregroundServiceobject fromLocationTaskOptionstype to the separate typeLocationTaskServiceOptions. (#14672 by @Simek)
13.0.1 — 2021-10-01
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13.0.0 — 2021-09-28
🛠 Breaking changes
🎉 New features
- [plugin] Added
isIosBackgroundLocationEnabledto enable the background location UIMode (#14142 by @EvanBacon) - Use stable manifest ID where applicable. (#12964 by @wschurman)
- Add useForegroundPermissions and useBackgroundPermissions hooks from modules factory. (#13860 by @bycedric)
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fixed
Location.getCurrentPositionAsyncthrowingLocation provider is unavailable.error. (#14281 by @m1st4ke) - Fix building errors from use_frameworks! in Podfile. (#14523 by @kudo)
- Update error message for
LocationUnavailableExceptionon Android. (#14539 by @kylerjensen)
💡 Others
- Updated
@expo/config-plugins(#14443 by @EvanBacon)
12.1.0 — 2021-06-16
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fixed
startLocationUpdatesAsyncrequiring the background location permission even if was used when the app is in the foreground on iOS. (#12594 by @lukmccall) - Enable kotlin in all modules. (#12716 by @wschurman)
💡 Others
12.0.4 — 2021-04-13
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12.0.3 — 2021-04-09
🐛 Bug fixes
- Add support for user-initiated background tracking without background permission (#12456 by @bycedric)
12.0.2 — 2021-03-29
🐛 Bug fixes
- Lock the unimodules-permissions-interface dependency to the same version in react-native-unimodules
12.0.1 — 2021-03-26
🐛 Bug fixes
- Add missing unimodules-permissions-interface dependency
12.0.0 — 2021-03-10
🛠 Breaking changes
- Splitting location permissions into
ForegroundandBackgroundpermissions. (#12063 by @lukmccall)
🎉 New features
- Converted plugin to TypeScript. (#11715 by @EvanBacon)
- Updated Android build configuration to target Android 11 (added support for Android SDK 30). (#11647 by @bbarthec)
🐛 Bug fixes
- Remove sticky notification on service stop on Android. (#11775 by @zaguiini)
- Remove peerDependencies and unimodulePeerDependencies from Expo modules. (#11980 by @brentvatne)
11.0.0 — 2021-01-15
⚠️ Notices
- The package is now shipped with prebuilt binaries on iOS. You can read more about it on expo.fyi/prebuilt-modules. (#11224 by @tsapeta)
🛠 Breaking changes
🎉 New features
- Created config plugins (#11538 by @EvanBacon)
🐛 Bug fixes
10.0.0 — 2020-11-17
🛠 Breaking changes
9.0.1 — 2020-10-02
🐛 Bug fixes
9.0.0 — 2020-08-18
🛠 Breaking changes
- Add
scopefield in returned value to indicate whether background permissions are granted. Addandroid.accuracyfield to determine whethercoarseorfinelocation permission is granted. (#9446 by @mczernek) getLastKnownPositionAsyncno longer rejects when the last known location is not available – now it returnsnull. (#9251 by @tsapeta)- Removed the deprecated
enableHighAccuracyoption ofgetCurrentPositionAsync. (#9251 by @tsapeta) - Removed
maximumAgeandtimeoutoptions fromgetCurrentPositionAsync– it's been Android only and the same behavior can be achieved on all platforms on the JavaScript side. (#9251 by @tsapeta) - Made type and enum names more consistent and in line with our standards — they all are now prefixed by
Location. The most common ones are still accessible without the prefix, but it's not the recommended way. (#9251 by @tsapeta) geocodeAsyncandreverseGeocodeAsyncno longer falls back to Google Maps API on Android. (#9444 by @tsapeta)
🎉 New features
- Added missing
altitudeAccuracyto the location object on Android (requires at least Android 8.0). (#9251 by @tsapeta) - Improved support for Web — added missing methods for requesting permissions and getting last known position. (#9251 by @tsapeta)
- Added
maxAgeandrequiredAccuracyoptions togetLastKnownPositionAsync. (#9251 by @tsapeta) - Google Maps Geocoding API can now be used on all platforms with the new
useGoogleMapsoption. (#9444 by @tsapeta) - Added
district,subregionandtimezonevalues to reverse-geocoded address object. (#9444 by @tsapeta)
🐛 Bug fixes
- Fixed different types being used on Web platform. (#9251 by @tsapeta)
getLastKnownPositionAsyncno longer requests for the current location on iOS and just returns the last known one as it should be. (#9251 by @tsapeta)- Fixed
getCurrentPositionAsyncnot resolving on Android when the lowest accuracy is used. (#9251 by @tsapeta) - Fixed
LocationGeocodedAddresstype to reflect the possibility of receivingnullvalues. (#9444 by @tsapeta)
8.3.0 — 2020-07-16
🐛 Bug fixes
- Added some safety checks to prevent
NullPointerExceptionsin background location on Android. (#8864 by @mczernek) - Add
isoCountryCodetoAddresstype and reverse lookup. (#8913 by @bycedric) - Fix geocoding requests not resolving/rejecting on iOS when the app is in the background or inactive state. It makes it possible to use geocoding in such app states, however it's still discouraged. (#9178 by @tsapeta)
8.2.1 — 2020-05-29
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8.2.0 — 2020-05-27
This version does not introduce any user-facing changes.