Schlaubischlump/LocationSimulator

[Question] Wireless devices not detected

alahkel opened this issue · 1 comments

alahkel commented
  • [x ] I have read the Help menu entry.
  • [x ] I have checked the github issues.

Hi there,
as per title, I've always had troubles with wifi spoofing with this app.

I've read the closed issues, help documentation etc to no avail.
The finder shows my iPhone when connected on the same wifi as my Mac, although the app only shows it when connected via usb. Tried disabling and re-enabling the feature in app's settings, no results.
I've recently switched to iPhone 14 pro max, the problem occurred on my iPhone 13 Pro Max as well, on different macOS versions (Big Sur, now on official ventura stable) and iOS versions: updated recently the app to the latest build but it doesn't change the outcome.

Do you have possibly any clues? Thanks!

Also thank you for the great app, I'll donate for sure.

Schlaubischlump commented

Hi @alahkel,

Glad that you like the app! That sounds really strange... I haven't experienced this bug yet. It sounds like something that should be fixable by reconfiguring the Wi-Fi sync. I assume that you restored you new iPhone from a backup. If something regarding Wi-Fi sync was corrupted on your old iPhone, it might be corrupted on your new one as well.

There are a couple of things you could do / try.

  1. Try to disable Wi-Fi sync completely. To do this:
  2. Connect your iOS device to your mac via USB
  3. Select the device in the sidebar and disable the "Show this iPhone when on Wi-Fi"
  4. Reboot your iPhone
  5. Connect your device via USB
  6. Enable Wi-Fi sync
  7. remove the USB connection
  8. Your device should appear in Finder over USB
  9. Open LocationSimulator
  10. Open the Preferences and disable "Allow Network devices"
  11. Close the preferences
  12. Open the Preferences again and enable "Allow network devices"
  13. Close the Preferences again
  14. Does your device appear in the list ? If not, open the log (cmd + l) and send it to me. It might contain some hints

Other ideas you could try:

  • Use a different wi-fi network. Maybe libimobiledevice does not like your wi-fi network for some reason

Reset all trusted devices. Note that this resets location information and other stuff as well.

If all this does not help, we could try to see if the idevice terminal tools can detect your device. I'll go into more details if the above solutions do not work.