If you have registered an account on the Niantic Lightship platform (renamed to the Niantic Spatial platform some months ago) you might have received this email telling you about an upcoming deprecation of the "Maps SDK for Unity". As we have seen some people confused and worried that this will affect Ingress or the Geospartial Browser, we want to clarify what this SDK is.

Niantic offered this SDK as a tool to developers so that they could design a map style which they then could use in their owm projects. Think of it like the Ingress map where it shows you the streets and water features around you, but only when you're near them; to display these "tiles", the Scanner sends a request to the server for the map data which then gets interpreted and stylized based on the design choices embedded in the Scanners code. The SDK allowed an easy way to both request that map data and use it with a pre-determined design choice.

This is the part that will be sunset for independent developers. The rest of the services Niantic Spatial offered, like VPS or the Geospartial Browser, are not affected and unless you are a developer who already "knows" what that SDK was absolutely nothing will change for you. Ingress itself also won't be affected as Niantic Spatial uses an internal API to create these map tiles.

TL;DR: Nothing will change or impact you in any way unless you already actively developed a Unity App using this SDK.

Reference: https://lightship.dev/docs/maps/

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New Zealand has received the +Delta Bounty Op Campaign which will last until September 19th! Here are the tasks you have to complete to gain some extra +Delta tokens while gaining points for your faction when completing your Daily Bounties.
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Assignment 1/1
Complete 5 out of 5 Bounties to advance
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 50 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 100 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 150 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 200 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 250 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

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Agents are reporting that the new daily bounties, which are supposed to award +Delta Tokens in regions in which it is already July, are still rewarding +Theta tokens instead.

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This has been fixed and the Daily Bounties now correctly award +Delta Tokens.

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The XM color has been reverted to the normal white.

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The first IFS 2x AP event is currently happening around the world, running from 08:00 to 20:00 local time and awarding double AP on all actions.

... except for Scans. As with the 2x 2sDay which was replaced by this event, the AP for Scans do not follow this rule and are instead awarding 2x AP from 08:00 UTC to 20:00 UTC. If you have Scans banked, pay attention to the current UTC time and plan your uploads accordingly.

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Ingress has released 2.170.1 into the App Stores!

No notable fixes for the Scanner itself are listed, but the notes mention that the Emails for the Mission Creator Tool have been fixed and are now being send again.

Specifically for Android, as announced at the start of this year, support for 32-bit devices has ended. Going forward you will need a 64-bit device to continue playing.

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An anonymous XM miner claims to have identified a recurring sequence in Machina's background processes – a rhythmic ebb and flow. Could this point to a scheduled cycle of dormancy and activation? Further investigation is warranted.

#Ingress #MachinaWeakening

We have confirmed reports of Machina, both Portals and Links, decaying. It seems like Machina will vanish completely over the next few days and will return afterwards, as it has done before.

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Read more about the +Delta Anomaly Rules at: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusdelta-anomalysites

#Ingress #PlusDelta

In Ingress adjacent news, ITO EN which had a sponsorship agreement not only with Ingress but also Pokémon GO has announced that they will end their collaboration with Pokémon GO at the end of this year. After December 31st all Pokestops and Gyms that were added to the game at locations of the ITO EN vending machines in Japan will be removed.

ITO EN has deeper sponsorship ties into Ingress not just with sponsored Portals in Japan, but also the global deployment of the ITO EN Transmuter item. At the moment there are no (public) indicators that the company also wants to end their collaboration with Ingress.

Source: https://www.itoen.co.jp/company/vender/news/article/20250710/

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During the campaign you can earn special "+Delta Reso Points", separate from the +Delta Tokens. You can earn points though the following actions:

- Deploying a Level 8 Resonator: 10 Points
- Upgrading a Resonator with a Level 8 Resonator: 10 Points
- Owning a Portal that receives a deployed or upgraded Level 8 Resonator: 1 Point
- Destroying a Resonator or any Level: 1 Point

These points will be used to distribute 200 Season Points among the factions after the end of the event.

Additionally, a special Campaign will be active with up to 7 Bounties. These Bounties will involve the following actions:

- Earning “+Delta Reso Points”
- Deploying Resonators
- Destroying Resonators
- Creating Control Fields

Completing these Bounties will award you +Delta Tokens. After completing 5 Bounties you can choose to restart the Campaign early by skipping up to 2 Bounties.

100 additional Season Points will be awarded to the factions based on the amount of Bounties claimed during the event.

Our recommendation: Stock up on L8 Resonators via hacking and Kinetic Capsules and make sure that you have Portals where you can deploy or upgrade a L8 Resonator on. Also note that the last 2-ish days overlap with Level 8 Week during which you can deploy 2 L8 Resonators.

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Ingress has made the move to BlueSky! You can now follow the Social Media account of the Ingress team via https://bsky.app/profile/ingress.com

(You can also follow the IUENG account at https://bsky.app/profile/eng.ingressupdates.com 👀)

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One of the reasons to set up Bluesky was the recent crash out of Grok on Twitter, prompting the team to look into potential alternatives.

https://bsky.app/profile/ingress.com/post/3ltnpm3el522s

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In an Email conversation with an Agent, ITO EN has confirmed that the sponsorship between them and Ingress will continue for now!

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On Mon Jul 14, we are ending support for 32-bit Android devices. This includes devices that use 32-bit Android, for example Samsung Galaxy A13 and Moto G Play 2023. As a smaller dev team, we need to focus our development and QA testing efforts on a narrower set of technologies, like 64-bit devices on newer OS versions. https://ingress.com/news/2025-deprecate32bitclients

ENLIGHTENED SITREP: Operation Charlotte Thrives – Green Skies
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📅 Date: July 13, 2025
📍 Location: Charlotte Metro, NC, USA
📈 MU Gained: 6,498,685
🟩 Fields Thrown: 13

This weekend, six Enlightened agents came together to execute Operation Charlotte Thrives: Green Skies, a stunning, multi-million MU layered field over the Charlotte metro area. Spanning across three scoring regions, the op earned two agents their fielding badges and painted the sky green in spectacular fashion.

Anchors stretched from Clifton, SC, up through the South Carolina-North Carolina state line at South of the Border, and into High Point, NC.

📌 Highlights:

Largest Layer: 1,300,247 MU
Smallest Layer: 1,299,347 MU
Total MU Scored: 6,498,685 MU

⚔️ Last-Minute Tension:

With just 30 minutes left before checkpoint, unexpected blockers appeared, throwing the team into high gear. One of the anchor teams had to rush to a portal 30 minutes away to clear the path—just in time to throw the final layer seconds before checkpoint.

The excitement didn’t end there. A nearby RES agent reached the anchor almost immediately, dropping fields just as they went up. A brave agent made a 1km sprint to get a new layer out, only for RES to strike again, taking down the next anchor moments later.

But the Enlightened weren’t done yet. Three agents waited patiently until RES cleared out, then threw one final defiant layer, which held for two full hours after the op wrapped.

Operator: AsherTrolls
Many thanks to all agents involved

Operation Charlotte Thrives was a brilliant display of coordination, hustle, and quick thinking, a start to strong wins for the Enlightened across the Carolinas.

💚 Onward. Upward. Green skies ahead.
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Our Bluesky giveaway has been closed and the Agents have been contacted!

The Agents listed in the image should check their Bluesky message inbox for a gift from the mysterious Toast entity.

https://bsky.app/profile/eng.ingressupdates.com/post/3ltxbtrrt4k2w

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Machina has returned and the first portals have been turned red again. At the time of writing this post, around 40000 Portals worldwide have been infected.

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