- 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.
Release notes
Changelog.
Updates for LocationSimulator and LocationSpoofer.
iOS, iPadOS, and Mac
LocationSimulator
- 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
- 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