Fix: Geovo on iPhone can't connect (no computer)

Geovo reaches the iPhone's developer service through LocalDevVPN. While LocalDevVPN is off or disconnected, Geovo can't set your location.

1. In Geovo, tap Open LocalDevVPN, or open the LocalDevVPN app yourself. You can also turn it on in Settings › VPN.
2. Tap Connect. The first time, iOS asks to Add VPN Configurations: tap Allow and enter your passcode.
3. Come back to Geovo. It carries on by itself once the connection answers.
4. LocalDevVPN already says Connected? Tap It's Already On in Geovo and follow the Cellular Data steps.

Not installed yet? Geovo shows Get LocalDevVPN (free): install it from the App Store, then come back to Geovo.

LocalDevVPN shows as connected, but Geovo's connection isn't getting through. Turning Cellular Data off and on starts the connection, and it's the usual fix even when you're on Wi-Fi.

1. The most common fix: keep LocalDevVPN on, swipe down from the top-right corner to open Control Center, tap Cellular Data off, wait 2 seconds, then tap it back on. Geovo carries on by itself.
2. Keep LocalDevVPN connected the whole time.
3. Still stuck? Open LocalDevVPN, tap Disconnect, then Connect (Geovo's Still stuck? section has a button that opens it for you). Or turn Wi-Fi off and back on.
4. Check that Geovo may use the Local Network: Settings › Privacy & Security › Local Network › Geovo on. That's how Geovo talks to the helper.

More on mobile data: using Geovo on cellular and in Airplane Mode.

The pairing file lets Geovo on the iPhone talk to the iPhone's developer service. Geovo for Mac or Windows makes it when it installs the app. iOS can stop accepting it after Reset Location & Privacy, an iOS update, or when the iPhone forgets the computer that made it.

1. Plug the iPhone into your computer with Geovo for Mac or Windows. Unlock it and tap Trust if it asks.
2. In Geovo on the computer, click Renew (or Install on iPhone if the app isn't on the iPhone). It makes a new pairing file and puts it on the iPhone. Your places and settings stay.
3. Open Geovo on the iPhone again.

On iOS 27, Geovo's setup on the iPhone also offers Pair on this iPhone, which makes a pairing file without a computer.

Geovo holds your simulated location only while it's running and connected through LocalDevVPN. If iOS stops Geovo, or the connection drops and can't come back, the iPhone may return to its real GPS.

1. Don't swipe Geovo away in the app switcher: that stops it. Locking the iPhone or switching to other apps is fine.
2. Allow location Always: Settings › Geovo › Location › Always. It lets Geovo keep running in your pocket and come back by itself if iOS closes it.
3. Keep LocalDevVPN connected.
4. Leave Keep Running on: in Geovo's Settings, keep Silent Audio and Background Location on. Both are only active while you're simulating.
5. Avoid Low Power Mode during long sessions: it can make iOS pause background apps sooner.

Every cause, in order: why a simulated location keeps resetting. On mobile data: cellular and Airplane Mode. The opposite problem, a location that won't go back to real: iPhone location stuck.

iOS only lets apps use its developer location service while Developer Mode is on. It's off on a new or erased iPhone.

1. Open Settings › Privacy & Security › Developer Mode and turn it on.
2. Tap Restart. After the iPhone restarts and you unlock it, tap Turn On.
3. Open Geovo again.

Don't see the switch? It appears once an app like Geovo has been installed from a computer: close Settings completely and look again. More: turn on Developer Mode.

iOS asks you to trust apps installed with your own Apple ID before they open: after the first install, and again after a renewal (with Renew or automatic) that signed Geovo with a new certificate. That's normal: nothing is broken, and your places and settings stay.

1. Tap Cancel on the message.
2. Open Settings › General › VPN & Device Management.
3. Under Developer App, tap your Apple ID (the one you installed or renewed Geovo with).
4. Tap Trust, then Trust again. The iPhone needs internet for this (Wi-Fi or cellular).
5. Open Geovo again.

It says Unable to Verify App instead? See the next fix. No Developer App section at all? The install or renewal didn't finish: plug the iPhone in and click Renew (or Install on iPhone) in Geovo on the computer.

After an install or a renewal, the iPhone checks with Apple over the internet before it trusts the app. This message means that check couldn't reach Apple (no Wi-Fi or cellular data, a network or filter blocking Apple, or Apple answering slowly); it's normal and nothing is broken.

1. Connect the iPhone to the internet: turn off Airplane Mode and join Wi-Fi or turn on Cellular Data. Check that a web page loads in Safari.
2. Open Settings › General › VPN & Device Management and tap your Apple ID under Developer App.
3. Tap Verify App (or Trust if that's what it shows), then open Geovo again.

Still says it? Try another Wi-Fi network or cellular data, turn off any VPN or content filter on the iPhone, and try again in a few minutes.