Apps: Pretend another location - how it works
Some apps need your GPS coordinates to work properly. You can use your smartphone to fake another location and thus switch to any region. We show you how this works in this practical tip.
Pretend GPS location via app with your smartphone
This function is particularly useful, for example, for apps like "Jodel" or "WhatsApp", in order to be able to quickly specify a different location. Unfortunately, there is currently only a suitable tool for changing the location via GPS without deep intervention in the system for Android.
- To do this, download the "Fake Location Spoofer Free" app from the Play Store.
- For the app to work, you must activate the "Allow pseudo locations" function in the developer options.
- Now activate the GPS on your smartphone and start the "Fake Location Spoofer".
- Navigate here to the place you want to pretend.
- The location is determined by double-clicking. By clicking on the start icon at the bottom right, the fake GPS coordinates are faked to the other apps. This is also shown in the notification bar.
- To stop the location deception, click the cancel icon in the lower left corner of the "Fake Location Spoofer" app.
