Players of Pokémon Go in China have to download the video game with App Store IDs from other locations and use VPN to entry Google companies in purchase to load the match, and some even use a GPS spoofing app to bypass the GPS blocking. A subsequent iOS application update minimized the scope of entry. Gyms had been disabled on June 19, 2017, with the new Gyms being launched with the upcoming application update a few days later.