While most people want their iPhone to recognize their true location for mapping and navigation, there are niche circumstances under which users can benefit from spoofed locations — that is, faking your location.
Whether you’re trying to spoof your location to screenshot a mapping interface without revealing your location or to access features in an game or app that aren’t available in your region, location spoofing has long been a highly sought-after feature.
Once limited to jailbreaking, location spoofing is now possible even on non-jailbroken devices by way of a new add-on called LocationSimulator by iOS developer straight_tamago.
Once installed, LocationSimulator adds a module to the Misaka app that users can use a 3D Touch/Haptic Touch gesture on in order to reveal location spoofing-centric settings.
Upon using the aforementioned gesture, users can start or stop location spoofing. If starting location spoofing, you will be presented with an interactive map so that you can tap anywhere to drop a pin, and that pin gives you the exact coordinates for your location spoofing.
In this case, we’ve spoofed our location so that it looks like we’re in Alaska, as shown above. With this spoofing active, we can open the native Maps app and it thinks we’re in Alaska instead of our true location.
The possibilities are honestly endless for an add-on such as LocationSimulator, so if you’re interested in giving it a try for yourself, then you can download it for free from the Misaka package manager app.
Anyone who isn’t already using Misaka can use either of the following tutorials to get started with it:
- How to perma-sign Misaka on iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 with TrollStore
- How to sideload Misaka on any firmware with Sideloadly
Are you going to be doing anything interesting with location-spoofing capabilities? Let us know in the comments section down below.