- Bug fixes and stability improvements.
Release notes
Changelog.
Updates for LocationSimulator and LocationSpoofer.
iOS, iPadOS, and Mac
LocationSimulator
- Fix Done button for Settings popup is missing
- Added Off, Loop, and Autoreverse options for repeating navigation routes.
- Fixed “Open AppleScript” in Help on macOS 27.
- Fixed toolbar overflow actions for Repeat, Movement Type, and Movement Speed remaining selectable when their controls were disabled.
- Added automatic selection, download, and installation of Cryptex developer images on compatible devices running iOS 27 or later. iOS 17–26 continues to prefer personalized images.
- Added Cryptex downloads and manual imports to Developer Images settings, with separate storage for Cryptex and personalized images and validation before saving downloaded or imported files.
- Improved device setup feedback with download progress and a developer image preparation indicator during installation.
- Updated Refresh and Retry to download and validate replacement files before removing and reinstalling the device’s developer image.
- Updated developer image labels in all supported languages, plus English and German help, FAQs, and Cryptex AppleScript examples.
- Added a device info indicator showing the developer image format currently installed on the device.
- Fixed manual developer image controls disappearing after a failed status refresh, and made refresh failures visible without extending the mount action’s loading indicator.
- Fixed map focus and zoom animations being interrupted by location updates during active navigation.
- Added LocationSpoofer protocol checks, disabled incompatible helpers with an explanation, and offered Catalyst users the appropriate launch, download, or update action.
- Improved the compact iOS map layout with a bottom toolbar for location and search actions, better-positioned map controls, and shorter coordinate labels.
- Replaced the movement-type picker on iOS and iPadOS with native Walk, Cycle, and Drive toolbar buttons that clearly show the current selection.
- Restored the connection-lost alert when LocationSpoofer quits and automatic reconnection as soon as the helper becomes available again.
- Added a setting to detect paired devices over Wi-Fi.
- Added an action for removing a device pairing, including after a pairing request is rejected.
- Expanded the AppleScript API with separate actions for requesting a relocation and teleporting immediately, and improved the bundled examples.
- Added Reset Traveled Distance to the status strip’s context menu and the Navigation menu, with matching AppleScript support.
- First TestFlight release of the rebuilt LocationSimulator for iOS, iPadOS, and Mac.
- Simulate locations on physical iPhones and iPads over USB or Wi-Fi, as well as devices running in iOS Simulator.
- Search for places, enter coordinates, import GPX files, and play walking, cycling, or driving routes.
- Control location workflows with keyboard shortcuts or AppleScript, including an in-app AppleScript API reference.
- Improved device reconnection, route handling, and device-name fallbacks across the app and AppleScript.
Required helper · macOS only
LocationSpoofer
- Navigation now maintains consistent speed across waypoints.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.
- Updated the idevice library.
- Added Off, Loop, and Autoreverse options for repeating navigation routes.
- Added an onboarding screen to help new users get started with LocationSpoofer.
- Added Cryptex developer image installation, detection, and removal, with automatic preference on compatible devices running iOS 27 or later. iOS 17–26 continues to prefer personalized images.
- Added developer image format discovery so LocationSimulator can choose a compatible image automatically.
- Added the AppleScript command “mount cryptex developer image” to install an image from an unpacked Restore directory.
- Added protocol compatibility reporting over application URLs, XPC, and the network API.
- Fixed LocationSpoofer remaining visible in network discovery after quitting by withdrawing its Bonjour service before termination.
- Kept the existing network pairing code usable when rotating to a new code fails.
- Ensures routes calculated through AppleScript include the requested starting point and destination.
- Added an AppleScript command to reset traveled distance without changing the simulated location, route, or playback state.
- Added a donation link.
- First standalone LocationSpoofer helper release for Mac.
- Connects LocationSimulator to physical iPhones and iPads and to devices running in iOS Simulator.
- Supports USB pairing and subsequent Wi-Fi device connections.
- Includes automatic update checks and a manual Check for Updates… action powered by Sparkle.
Original app