How to change your location on an Android device

Sometimes it may be necessary to hide your real location by replacing it with false GPS data. We tell you how to do it on any Android device.

To get started, you will need a GPS data spoofing app. To find it, in the Google Play store, enter the query «Fake GPS». You will see dozens of different applications that perform almost identical functions. Choose the option that suits you best based on reviews and compatibility with your device. We use the tool Fake GPS Location PROFESSIONALbut you can choose another application.

During the installation of the application, you need to give it permission to manage geolocation. But this is not enough. You also need to activate this application in special settings for developers. To do this, in the main menu of the smartphone settings, select the item “Information about the phone” and repeatedly click on the “Build number” until the smartphone reports that you are now a developer. After that, a new item «For Developers» will appear in the main menu, and in it — a lot of hidden settings for fine-tuning the phone. Among them is the ability to «Select apps for mock locations». Click on this item and select the newly installed application for spoofing GPS data.

Exit the settings, return to the application and set a fake location anywhere in the world. After that, your smartphone and also all applications on it will assume that you are in this place, although you have not left the house at all.

Why is this needed?

The reasons for changing geolocation can be very different. For example, using this trick, you can prank friends by posting a photo on a social network supposedly taken in some exotic place, accompanying it with a corresponding geotag.

Spoofing can be useful if some other application requires you to provide location data, but you do not want to share it because you do not trust the developers.

Some apps are region-locked and won’t work outside certain countries. The geolocation trick gets around these restrictions.

All in all, no matter what your goals are, GPS spoofing is a useful trick that everyone should be aware of.