🇯🇵 Sony, in collaboration with Niantic, has launched a promotion for players in Japan!

If you purchase one of the four LinkBuds included in the promotion until 31 July and register them until 21 August, you'll recieve some goodies for either Ingress or Monster Hunter Now!

For Ingress specifically, you'll get a passcode with the following:
- x3 Apex
- x40 Power Cube
- x40 Resonator
- x3 Monster Hunter Now Palico Beacon

For specific details, check out the promotional site here: https://www.sony.jp/headphone/campaign/2025_niantic/

Note that this promotion is only available for persons living in Japan.

@IUENG_Extra

Agents are reporting that nominations and edits that have been made to Wayfarer via Ingress are now missing from the contribution management page.

While it only seems to affect some contributions for some, others are reporting that every single Ingress contribution has been either hidden or removed. It is currently unknown if this is an error or intended due to the Niantic Spatial/Scopely split.

If you're affected by this, feel free to add to this bug report on the Wayfarer forums: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/wayfarer-contributions-from-ingress-wiped-from-contribution-management/94515

Niantic has acknowledged the bug and is working on it: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/contributions-missing-from-wayfarer/94517

@IUENG_Extra

The transition to Niantic Spatial continues, with the Niantic Labs social media accounts being taken over!

In particular, the username of the NianticLabs account was changed to NianticSpatial, carrying over all the prior followers and posts, while the Niantic Labs account on Instagram had its name changed to Niantic Spatial Inc.

Thanks to @PkmnTrainerJ for the report!

@IUENG_Extra

Portal Nominations are now re-enabled so that we can begin building our queue of submissions to review before our new Niantic Spatial website goes live. Soon™. https://nianticspatial.com/recon

With the move to the new Recon system, the emails you recieve when submitting a contribution has also gotten a few visual changes!

Additionally, Spatial also created a dedicated Support page for Recon, although at the moment it is just a copy of the Wayfarer one: https://nianticspatial.helpshift.com/hc/en/8-recon/

@IUENG_Extra

And because we love to track each movement during the Spatial/Scopely split, the original Ingress Support page has also moved from the Niantic instance to the Niantic Spatial instance.

(Specifically from https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/3-ingress/ to https://nianticspatial.helpshift.com/hc/en/5-ingress)

@IUENG_Extra

The sale of Niantic games has been closed!

While Niantic and Scopely announced the sale a while back already, it didn't actually happen yet due to regulatory reasons. These reasons have now been resolved, and the split has now officially happened.

Source: https://mobilegamer.biz/the-3-5bn-scopely-niantic-deal-has-officially-closed/

@IUENG_Extra

The +Theta Supporter badges are now available in the Scanner store for 30,800 CMU each!

@IUENG_Extra

It seems like Niantic is currently in the process of getting Recon ready and nominations and edits are disabled due to it. If you're trying to nominate via deep link the Scanner prompts you to link an email to your account. This message normally only appeared if you use Ingress with an Facebook account which only has a phone number linked to it.

@IUENG_Extra

If you had Nominations, edits or scans saved to Upload Later, don't reinstall Ingress as that will delete them. For now, keep the Scanner as is and they should hopefully reappear once the feature is re-enabled.

@IUENG_Extra

We're aware of an issue affecting Portal nominations and edits, Portal Scanning, and Overclock and we're investigating further. Thank you for your patience.

While Niantic did just post this update, Agents are reporting that the issue has been resolved! Restart your scanner and check if you can access Nominations, edits and your saved contributions again.

@IUENG_Extra

Agents on Reddit are reporting that it is currently not possible to change your Agent Name via a support ticket. Once we get confirmations that this option has beem reintroduced we will let you know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/s/GCkw4MbzL0

@IUENG_Extra

SITREP: Operation "Żabie Pola 3"

On June 7th 2025, a team consisting of ~34 agents had covered the City of Kraków and some others in a beautiful 22 layer megafield.

MUs gained: ~41 Million
Length of the links: 244km, ~170km, ~260km

SITREP: (in polish) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WMOG9QhBAldtfl0pg6sVlJMwU8QKnoOndLK-keOj7DE/edit?usp=sharing

Congratulations Agents, we hope you had a fantastic time!

@IUENG_Extra

Niantic Spatial has updated their Terms of Service to align with the founding of the new company. Compared to the previous ToS under Niantic not much has changed aside from updating mentions from Niantic Inc. to Niantic Spatial Inc., however the following line has been added:

By making any User Content available through the Services you grant to Niantic Spatial a license to use your User Content, including without limitation in connection with the training of machine learning and AI models.

Quote slightly adjusted to make it more readable

The same adjustments have also be made to the Privacy Policy, including the addition of the AI module training notice. We also noticed that the following has been added in preparation for Niantic Spatial Recon:

You can choose to opt out of having your in-game username attributed on your Niantic Spatial Recon submissions across Niantic Spatial products by going to the Niantic Spatial Recon settings.

The Ingress team has not made accepting the new Terms of Service or Privacy Policy mandatory yet.

https://www.nianticspatial.com/terms
https://www.nianticspatial.com/privacy

@IUENG_Extra

August, GA held a Mission Day together with a First Saturday this weekend! Agents from all around gathered to explore the city, solve the IFS passcode and hacked the NL1331-A portal that was invited to the event as well. Rounding out the weekend was the Second Sunday the next day.

We hope you had a lot of fun, Agents!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKp0CV7yITv/?igsh=MTIzY2hwMWEybWV4

@IUENG_Extra

These new Terms are now enforced and need to be accepted before continuing to play Ingress.

@IUENG_Extra

Ingress is currently experiencing issues which may manifest with issues logging in or doing any action in game.

EDIT: Game seems to be recovering.

Tangentially related, we have heard reports that Portal Scanning is currently broken on Android 16 (available on certain Pixel devices).

@IUENG_Extra

Ingress is again experiencing issues which may manifest with issues logging in or doing any action in game. The intel map is also affected this time.

@IUENG_Extra

The outage this time does not seem to be the fault of Niantic Spatial as a ton of other services like Discord are also having issues, likely due to a Google Cloud outage.

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