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A city at night. Click anywhere to send the location pin there along the streets.

Where do you want to be today?

Stealthpin changes where your iPhone appears in Find My, Maps and every other app, from your Mac. Pick a spot, and your iPhone travels there along real roads, so nobody watching sees it jump.

Download for Mac See how it works

Free for macOS 14 and later. Signed and notarized by Apple.

Click anywhere on the map to send your iPhone there.

Your Mac tells your iPhone where to be

Every iPhone has a location setting built in for app developers. Stealthpin uses it from your Mac, over a cable or Wi-Fi, through the free pymobiledevice3 tool. Nothing gets installed on your phone, and nothing you do in Stealthpin leaves your Mac.

  1. You pick a spot

    Click the map in Stealthpin, search for a place, or choose a favorite from the menu bar.

  2. Your iPhone moves

    It travels there at a real pace, then sits still the way a real phone does, wandering a few meters.

  3. Every app follows

    Find My, Maps, Weather and the rest all see the new spot, until you switch back to real.

Legend

A fake location gives itself away by behaving like no real phone would. Stealthpin is built around that.

Travels instead of teleporting
Move more than 500 m and Stealthpin drives, walks or cycles there on real roads, taking as long as Apple Maps says the trip would. A phone that covers 30 km in a second is the easiest fake to spot.
Drifts like real GPS
Even on a desk, a real phone's position wanders a few meters. While yours sits somewhere, Stealthpin adds that wander too, about three meters on average.
Replays trips you really took
Record a journey with the iPhone remote, even with the screen off, and replay it later with its real stops, speeds and wobble. GPX files go in and out too.
Plans routes from where you are
Click a few places and the phone travels through them in order, starting from wherever it is now, never from a standing jump.
Keeps your usual places close
Favorites live in the menu bar and on ⌘1 to ⌘9. Places you keep going back to get suggested as bookmarks, named the way Apple Maps names them.
Remembers where it's been
Recents keeps a day-by-day record of every place your phone appeared, when it got there and how, so your story stays straight.

Back to real in one click

Back to Real Location stops everything at once: any trip, the drift, and the fake location itself. Stealthpin forgets the spot too, so nothing brings it back later. It's the red button in the window, an item in your menu bar, and a shortcut on your keyboard.

Away from your Mac? Restart the iPhone. That switches the fake location off, and Stealthpin leaves it that way.

Before you start

You need a Mac with macOS 14 or later and an iPhone. It takes about five minutes, and Stealthpin's own tour checks each step for you.

  1. Install pymobiledevice3

    Stealthpin uses this free, open-source tool to talk to your iPhone. Install it once in Terminal:

    uv tool install pymobiledevice3

    No uv yet? Run brew install uv first, or use pipx install pymobiledevice3.

  2. Turn on Developer Mode

    It's an Apple setting on your iPhone, made for people who build apps, and it's what lets Stealthpin set the location. One command makes the switch appear, then you turn it on in Settings and restart. No Xcode needed.

    Follow the step-by-step guide

  3. Connect and open Stealthpin

    Plug the iPhone in, unlock it and tap Trust. On iOS 17 and later, Stealthpin starts a secure tunnel to the phone, which asks for your Mac's admin password once.

    Download for Mac

Questions

Does it really change what Find My shows?

Yes. Find My reads your iPhone's location the same way every other app does, so it shows wherever Stealthpin puts the phone. Your other Apple devices still show where they really are. If you share your location, Find My's "Use This iPhone as My Location" setting makes the shared location follow your iPhone.

What is Developer Mode, and is it safe?

It's a switch Apple builds into every iPhone for people who make apps. Turning it on lets a Mac you've trusted use Apple's testing tools on the phone, including the one that sets its location. Nothing is erased, your passcode and Face ID keep working, and you can turn it off any time. The Developer Mode guide walks through it in five steps.

Does it install anything on my iPhone?

No. It uses a setting the iPhone already has for app developers, which is why Developer Mode has to be on. Nothing is jailbroken, and nothing stays behind when you stop.

What happens if I quit Stealthpin?

The phone keeps showing the fake location until you switch back to real or restart it. When you open Stealthpin again, it picks up where the phone was left.

Is there an iPhone app?

There's a companion remote, Stealthpin Remote, for driving it from your phone over Wi-Fi. It isn't available to download yet. The Mac app does everything on its own.

Does anything I do get sent anywhere?

No. Your bookmarks, trips and history stay on your Mac, and there's no account and no tracking. Map search, directions and place names come from Apple Maps. The privacy page has the details.

Is it allowed?

It's your phone. Some apps and games have rules against faking location, and the people you share your location with may be relying on it, so use it with care.