Social online status - always offline?

Unity Engine
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In the game I’m working on we want to display the players current rank on the gamecenter leaderboards at the end of every game. The functions I’d written to do this were never getting called though, and here’s why - before I tried to query the leaderboards I’d check the following:

Social.localUser != null  Social.localUser.state != UserState.Offline

It turns out this never worked, because the state of the local user is always offline. This is despite the fact that in other places in the game we can check the leaderboards, get a friends list, etc., i.e. all the things you’d need to be logged into gamecenter and online to do.
If I change the check to this:

Social.localUser != null  Application.internetReachability != NetworkReachability.NotReachable

then everything seems to be working as intended.

Am I doing something wrong here? Should it be possible for the localUser state to be offline while everything else about gamecenter works fine?

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Another Unity dev suggested to me that the status variable might only be for friends of the current user and that’s why the value never changes. If that’s true then I’ll just stick with the alternate check in the original post and try to make sure I properly handle the situation where no leaderboard data can be retrieved. I was hoping to be able to specifically deal with situations where the user is online but for whatever reason can’t access the leaderboards, but it’s not a big deal.