That’s because Apple combined this app with the Find My iPhone app in iOS into a single app that is now known as “Find My.” Find My has all of the same functionality as Find My Friends and Find My iPhone, though using it is a little different. If you’re on the latest version of iOS, iOS 13, you’ve likely noticed that the Find My Friends app is nowhere to be found. Click on it and you will see a display with a list of people that you have shared your location data with. To the left corner, you will notice the two people that used to symbolise the original Find My Friends app. To end the GPS spoofing, select “Stop Simulation” in iTools. You will see three tabs at the bottom section of your screen. Enter the location you want to spoof your location to in the text box and click “Move Here”.ĭo whatever you wish to do in your “new” location. Click the Virtual Location button on the Toolbox panel. (Not to be confused with Apple's own Find My Friends app for iOS.) Google+ It might be tucked away in the corner, but Google's social networking service, Google+, offers the ability to share location. Click the Toolbox icon on the iTools panel. Once you have iTools installed, follow these steps to set up GPS spoofing on your iPhone. So your iPhone will have to stay with the host computer to make this work.
You run iTools on a Windows PC or a desktop Mac, and then connect your iPhone to that computer using a cable (like you would do if you were connecting to iTunes).
You can get a free trial of iTools to see if it will work for you, but after that, a single-user license costs $30.95. When you both turn on location sharing, you appear on the interactive map at your current location. Anyone in your contact list who installs the app on their phone becomes able to share their location with you, and vice-versa. iTools has features besides GPS spoofing, but that’s the only feature we’ll talk about today. The app is simple to use and easy to figure out. If you're not within a clear line of sight to GPS satellites, your device can determine your location using crowd-sourced Wi-Fi and cell tower. Depending on your device and available services, Location Services uses a combination of cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS to determine your location. Unfortunately, there is not a free tool for this functionality, but there is a commercial program called iTools which will allow you to spoof your Find My Friends location data. As well as a varying sized lighter green circle.