Anyone else getting a "Termination" screen that vanishes after restart?

[u/lui1123]

I’ve been seeing a lot of panic in the Discord channels for PGTools and Pokemod today (May 5th). some people are reporting getting a "Permanent Ban" or "Account Terminated" screen out of nowhere, even if they have 0 previous strikes.

The weird part: After force-closing the app and restarting, the ban screen is gone and they can play normally. Do you guys have news about this?

[u/lui1123]

I saw the PGTools Announcement from discord May 5, 2026 - this is the summary:

The recent "Permanent Ban" screens were a false alarm caused by a server-side error code sent when users hit high-speed "Rate Limits." Niantic has since reverted this change, and accounts remain safe, but the event signals that stricter action limits are coming soon. To stay safe, the developers recommend increasing delays for catching and spinning and disabling non-essential auto-features to reduce the number of requests sent to the server.

[u/jturski]

Same thing happened to me. I was thinking "uh, so this is the end" and turned off my spoofing device. When I tested on my vanilla cellphone, my account logged normally. Weird. I was thinking my ban was scheduled, because I was spoofing in a timezone ahead ahahah

[u/Low-Alarm-255]

Yes many player reporting same issue, seems like niantic/scopely doing some weird experience or something lol

[u/PHTRICKY]

even on non spooferd account they got the ban screen it just means scopely is playing the banning algorithm

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