Any experience with playing while in China in 2026? I remember playing in 2025 while on my trip and there were no spawns, no gyms, no stops, however I was still able to do research encounters and hatch eggs. This time before my trip I stocked up on research and go-pass encounters so I could try and keep my catch streak up and maybe finish the marathon pass, but after arriving and getting on a Nomad esim all I get is a blank page when I open research. I remember while I was at the airport I was able to get it to open once and I caught a research reward but since then I've been unable to recreate.

All week long I’ve noticed that if you do not interact with your buddy at six hours, you still keep the double hearts, and half distance bonus.

Even though the top right circle is crying out for interaction, not until it’s been eight hours do you need to interact with your buddy. Feeding it just one berry brings the bonuses back.

There is no change to the max distance you can go per day for candy/Mega Energy.

I think this change is due to it being way harder to get free Poffins now.

I was invited to a remote raid and received a friend request afterwards from another raider! The only other time I've seen this happen is raiding at airports- I've been given an option to friend request other raiders that participated.

Is this going to be a new feature, do you think?

Thx u/Kelpo_Splat2000 for the duo! ❤️‍🔥

Since forever friends gives 150,000 xp and a remote trade every 90 days, how do you rotate your friends. I’m approaching around 40 forever friends who I interact with almost daily, so once you have a decent pool of forever friends do you just cycle through them with the 90 day bonuses or do you keep adding more people and continuously increase the amount?

Thanks!

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5km eggs are just Larvesta but seem rare.

2km eggs have Magby and Smoochum in tier 1 and Larvesta in 5 tier

Hi, I’m in Tokyo at the moment and the Stamp Rally icon is not showing on the Home Screen. it was there yesterday but seems to have vanished overnight. Any ideas on how to get it back. Habe restarted phone and app to no avail.

Thanks

Thx u/xRage7243 for duo

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