WhatsApp is the instant messaging application most popular among users on Android. The application allows us to send messages, files or audio notes in the chats that we have in it. In addition, it is also possible to share our location in these chats, if for example we want to send someone the address where we are at some point. If for some reason you don't want to share your location, it's also possible to send a fake location to another person on WhatsApp.
How to send a fake location on WhatsApp? This is surely a doubt that many people who use the app on Android have. Next we are going to show you the way in which it is possible send a fake location on the popular app messaging on Android to another person. If you are ever going to do it, you will be able to see how it is possible.
Being able to share a fake location on WhatsApp is not something that comes natively in the app, there is no function that allows us to send a location that is not real or where we are not. So we're going to have to resort to third-party tools if we don't want to share that location where we actually are, since the app lets us send the location. In addition, we also tell you how to send a false location in real time, which is another option that we can use in some cases.
Share location on WhatsApp
First of all, it is advisable to know the way in which we can share location on whatsapp on android. If we want another person to know where we are at that moment, if, for example, someone has to come pick us up or we have agreed to meet at a certain place, this function is something that can be very useful. The messaging application has had this function for a long time, something that many of you have surely used on some occasion in the past. If you want to share your location in a chat in the app, the steps to follow are as follows:
- Open WhatsApp on your Android phone.
- Go to the chat in which you want to send your location at that moment.
- In the box where we write the message, click on the clip icon.
- In the options that appear in that box, click on the location option.
- The map will then come out with the marker.
- Share that location with someone else.
These steps allow us share location with anyone else on WhatsApp. This is something that we will be able to send both in individual chats and in group chats in the Android messaging application. It is something very easy to use, as you can see, and that in many cases we are going to use or need to use in the well-known app. This option can also be used if you want to share your real-time location at any given moment.
Share a fake location on WhatsApp
It is possible that on some occasion someone has asked us to send them our location in a chat in the app, but that we do not want to do so or we have suspicions about the intentions of this person. Maybe in that case it's better send a fake location on WhatsApp, so we are not going to reveal where we really are at that moment and that other person is going to receive a map where it is not really said where we are at that moment. When sending a location that is not real through the Android application, there are several options.
Each user in the app will then be able to choose the method that want to use to send a location that is not real. In general, you can use third-party applications to do this, but there is also a method of its own that the application offers us to share our location is something that we can use for this purpose, through a couple of simple changes or adjustments. Below we tell you all the options that we currently have available to do this.
Share location from the app itself
In the first section we have shown how you can share our location on WhatsApp. This same method can be used to share a fake location on WhatsApp as well. By using the send location option, we can see that a marker appears on the map. Something that many do not know is that we can place this marker in another place where we really are at that moment.
In addition, the location sharing function itself has a built-in search engine, so that we can search for a place that we want to be shown as that place where we are at a time when we share location in the app, even though we are not actually there. same. This is an easy option, but that we must use with care, since it may not always send or show that false location to the other person on WhatsApp, but rather we are sending the real location. The steps we have to follow if we want to use this option in the app are the following:
- Open WhatsApp on your Android phone.
- Go to the chat where you want to send this fake location to that person.
- Click on the clip icon located in the message bar at the bottom of the screen.
- In the menu that appears on the screen, click on the Location option.
- Wait for the map to come out.
- Put the marker in another place on the map that you want, instead of the current location.
- If you want a site that is somewhat further away, use the search function by clicking on the Magnifying Glass and search for that site.
- Click on that site in the list below to share the location.
- Send that fake location on WhatsApp.
Fake location in real time
It may happen that we want share a fake location in real time in the messaging app. In these cases, we are going to have to resort to third-party applications, since this is not something that we can do in the app itself today. In addition to third-party apps that allow you to share false locations, it is also possible to make use of modifications to the behavior of the GPS, although this is something that will require root permissions, so it is something much more complex. Also, most Android users do not have such root permissions on their phones.
There are third-party applications that are going to leave us share a fake location on WhatsApp in real time. So it will be very simple to be able to send that fake location to another person, without having to grant root permissions on the phone or carry out a complex process. One of the best known apps in this field, which may sound familiar to many of you, is Fake GPS. This app allows us to send fake locations in real time in apps like WhatsApp. If we want to use this app on our mobile, we have to follow these steps:
- Download Fake GPS on your Android phone, available for free in the Google Play Store (download link at the end).
- Give the necessary permissions to the app to work on the phone.
- In the developer options on Android look for the option Choose Application to simulate location (in your settings).
- Choose Fake GPS as the app that can simulate this location on your mobile.
- Open Fake GPS on the phone.
- Choose any point on the map that appears on the screen.
- Click on Play so that the GPS will locate you at that point on the map you have chosen.
- Open WhatsApp and go to the chat with that person in question.
- Click on the clip icon and choose location.
- We then select the option "Real-time location".
The application will then send that location that we have previously selected in Fake GPS, which is not the location where we actually are at that moment, but rather a fake one. With these steps we have shared a fake location on WhatsApp in real time. If we need the location that is shared to be something in real time, we will have to resort to an application like Fake GPS to be able to do it, since it is not something possible in the messaging application itself.
Fake GPS is not the only option in this regard, in the Google Play Store we have many apps of this type, so there is more than one option. If there is any other app that you know and that you find comfortable to use, you will be able to use it without any problem, in addition, the steps will be very similar to the ones we have followed now when using Fake GPS, which will undoubtedly make it much easier for most users on Android. Fake GPS can be downloaded for free on the Play Store. In addition, inside the app we do not have purchases or ads of any kind. It can be downloaded from this link:
