✍️ REPORTING POWER SPOTS ✍️

If you find a Power Spot whilst playing Pokémon GO that you think is invalid such as at a private residence or a school, you can report it!

Simply tap the ❓ and then the ❗️ in the next screen and you can say why you believe it should be removed.

*? NIANTIC X FOURSQUARE ?*

A new feature has launched in Pokémon GO today called Power Spots!

These new POI will appear on your map and Niantic has mentioned they will rotate around.

You may notice some of them are Wayspots accepted that didn’t meet inclusion rules to appear in the other games.

Some are from a third party Foursquare import. If you want to check which ones are from Foursquare, you can download the Swarm app and search your local area by going to check-in to that location.

*?? FOURSQUARE PORTALS ??***

Ingress Agents are reporting that Wayspots imported from Foursquare in to Ingress in Türkiye have now been removed.

In addition, Agents in Poland are reporting the Foursquare imports there have also been removed. This was not announced previously.

The Wayspots do remain in Pokémon GO as well as the Lightship/Wayfarer database.

?SCANIVERSE x NIANTIC ?

As announced previously, Scaniverse is now part of Niantic. You can now use it to see scans done on the other Niantic apps like the one below.

Any future scans you do may be used by Scaniverse and scans done in Scaniverse may be used by Niantic products (but will not count towards things like Scout Controller if done in Scaniverse).

You can get the app now on iOS & Android.

We wonder (as the channel) whether it will replace the Wayfarer app which is due to be demised at some point.

?? PSA to all Turkish Agents!

Niantic has announced a while back that the team is working on removing Foursquare portals Türkiye and re-enabling Machina. There Portal removals are now ready and will happen in the near future.

All Foursquare Portals will be removed, even if they have been updated since they were added to the game via Title/Description edits or if they have received a picture. If you know of such Portals or have Portals with important Links, make sure to screenshot them. After the Portals have been removed you can appeal them to Niantic via the Wayfarer Forums and have them and any potentially broken Link restored.

Source: @KodBilenAdam via Niantic

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*➡️ *INGRESS SYNC *⬅️***

Agents have confirmed sync has now happened. Whether this will be the standard time going forward for Ingress or was a blip is yet to be seen

*? *SHARED MEMORIES SYNC *?***

A few reports have come in from Ingress Agents that their accepted Wayspots have not synced to Ingress, even if they have met inclusion rules for that game.

There is a special event on this weekend in Singapore and Rotterdam for Ingress which is the Shared Memories XM Anomaly.

Whilst this has not been officially confirmed by Niantic, past Anomaly events have also paused the sync of new Portals so this looks to have been activated again.

Let us know when you see any Wayspots accepted during this time sync to the Ingress map as Portals!

*? *FOURSQUARE PORTALS IN TÜRKIYE *??***

The Ingress team has shared that they will be working to remove any Portals created by the Foursquare Import in Türkiye.

It’s known that Agents provided feedback in the Ingress Community Forums (now deactivated) when the Foursquare imports started, and the Ingress team has not accepted any since.

These Wayspots do appear in the Lightship database and within Pokémon GO.

This may cause issues where Ingress Wayfarers nominate something in Türkiye which would then be marked as a duplicate and never appear in Ingress even if it met inclusion rules for that game.

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Attention Turkish Agents -- As you may have deciphered, Machina is currently disabled throughout most of Türkiye. The NIA is working to update the Portal Network there to include only Portals approved by Agents and Wayfarers that have been accepted by Niantic…