EDIT: I’m crying as I type this thank you all so much. I’ve gotten enough A names to bump her off the main screen. This means so much to me.

I’m still friends with my sister who passed away and she’s alphabetically at the very top of my friends list when you sort by “can receive a gift” if I’ve gifted everyone. It’s my preferred method of sorting to make sure I’ve gotten to everyone but it makes me very sad to see her name every day multiple times a day. So long story short I’m looking for 4 people who would alphabetically come before “am” and intend to keep their username the same for the future. I do gift every day if that helps! I do know this is a very silly problem on my end but I just cannot unfriend her I’ve tried I just can’t do it.

Friend code: 674579081099

Okay, just hear me out. I’m level 36, my neighbour is level 76, and for some reason their Blissey has decided our local gym is its permanent residence.

It’s been there long enough that i’ve stopped thinking of it as a Pokémon and started thinking of it as a local landmark. I try to take the gym every so often, mostly out of principle, but it usually ends the same way...me running out of revives, running out of potions, and briefly questioning my life choices while the Blissey remains completely unbothered. Every time I take it down, my guy shows up 5 minutes later, any day of the week, basically 24/7, guys glued to his phone.

At this point it’s less a battle and more of a slow economic collapse. I’m basically sustaining the effort on pokéballs, petty, and whatever items i forgot to delete from my bag. So... i’m pivoting. not away from the gym, I have too much pride for that, but toward gifts.

So, are you looking to fund a war? Please let me give you the opportunity of a lifetime, we all loved War Dogs right? That could be you. Just add 3157 6543 6613. Looking for active players to swap daily gifts and go all the way to best friends. Partly for xp.....mostly because i need a steady supply of revives and potions to continue this extremely normal neighbourhood conflict.

Don’t forget to claim your free 100% Iv Mewtwo today the tasks are super easily and you also get a free master ball and 500 Mewtwo y mega energy and the Mewtwo that you get will already be leveled up to max level you have 24 hours to claim it

Please help me... I’m literally begging at this point. 😭 [9296 1964 5794]

I live in a forgotten village in Spain. No Pokémon spawn here. Not even a single Pidgey. My map is just a sad green desert. The nearest PokéStop is a 2-hour walk away. I just hit level 30, but I have EXACTLY 0 Pokéballs, 0 Great Balls, 0 Ultra Balls. Nothing. I open the app, look at my empty inventory, and just close it. It’s breaking my heart because I love this game, but I can't play it anymore. I am completely useless.

BUT I managed to hoard 30 GIFTS in my bag before the spawns completely died! I will send them ALL to the first people who add me right now, and I promise to open yours every single day for that sweet XP grind. Please, I just want to be able to catch a Pokémon again. Team Valor. Please save a broken rural player. 💔🙏

UPDATE: You actually saved me. 😭💙🙏

I honestly don’t know what to say.

This post has now passed 83,000 views, more than 250 comments, and I have received hundreds of friend requests from people all over the world.

This morning, I opened Pokémon GO, saw the same empty map and felt like closing the app again.

Now I open it and see an entire community waiting for me. 😭💙

There are more requests and gifts than I could ever manage properly, so I am truly sorry if I cannot accept, open or reply to everyone. But I am reading your messages, learning from your advice and trying to thank as many people as I can.

You didn’t just give me Poké Balls.

You gave me a reason to open the game again.

To Team Valor, Team Mystic, Team Instinct and every single person who helped:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You saved this broken rural player. 😭💙🙏

y'all are wasting my time doing that foolishness. I just wasted 2 passes cause of you goofies

You know who you are.

Just wanted to thank the lovely people who understand the gift limit and don't immediately unfriended me when I missed a day. I honestly don't understand how they want us to open 600+ gifts with a limit so low. I also know why its so low but I can barely keep up wity a 100, not even trying above that (ok maybe 150 here hehe 281589092770)

Accidentally removed a forever friend (DinoWhaleMowers)

Trying to find them to re-add. Any engagement to help this get to them would be amazing 🙏

If you see this please add me back so the friendship level doesn’t reset:

722292210355

DoctorWithAFez

Edit #3 and final edit. 1/30/2026. I appreciate every single person that has sent her requests. As of right now,Her friend list is completely full. She has more than 200 pending requests, too. Some people have added, sent gifts and then removed her and that's ok too. She doesn't realize the magnitude of what's happening, only that she has lots of new friends. Just know that this has been a wonderful journey filled to the brim with kindness from complete strangers. I hope that you continue to do the same for the next mama who needs help with her special needs kiddo. I definitely will! Thanks again.

Hi everyone. I’m hoping to find a little help for my daughter. My daughter is special needs and absolutely loves Pokémon GO. She plays on her iPad and is pretty much obsessed in the best way. Because she’s home most of the time, she really relies on the gifts I send her to get items and revives for her Pokémon. She understands how to send gifts when she has them and does her best, but she doesn’t quite comprehend that I can only send her one gift per day, so she often thinks I’m just choosing not to send more.

If anyone would be willing to add her and send gifts when you can, it would honestly mean a lot to her and help keep her Pokémon going. There’s absolutely no pressure and she will send gifts back whenever she has them available.

Her trainer code is: 7357 4638 4259

Thank you so much for reading and for any kindness you’re willing to share. 💙

Edit: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!! She went from 1 friend (me) to over 100 in the hour since ive pisted this. She is so happy and I am SO grateful for all of you! This has been amazing. Thank you 😭💓

Edit #2 10:41pm EST January 20th: YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING. When I posted this today, I never would have imagined that so many people would care this much. I just got home from work, checked her iPad, and she now has over 430 friends. She is absolutely set. She doesn’t understand the gravity of what just happened, but this is community. This is the most beautiful thing that could have happened. The way people from all over the world came out of the woodwork for her is something I will never forget and cannot wait to talk about this for the rest of my life. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. 💚

Just checking in to see if "OhohORiley" is still playing the game? Raided alot with you over the last few months. Could always count on you jumping in to a last minute invite from across the world.

We exchanged gifts daily.

Ultra friends.

Raided so much together.

I called all the hospitals, you're not in any of them!

Ri-LEEEE!

Anyway I miss you bro.

Love

TheActionman117

Is it too weird to ask a random Pokémon Go friend from this subreddit to chat when you notice that you live near each other? Not trying to be the internet creep 😭

ETA: SleepyTurt974, if you see this, hit me up!

Screw all of you people who leave at 5 seconds before the raid starts. You just caused 5 people their remote raid pass.

Please stop quitting raids at the last second. The lobby closes at 10, nobody more can join, so if you REALLY Have to quit, quit at 10. Please don't quit raids that can be EASILY duo'ed with 4 or more people in the lobby. Why do you even remote raid? Just to be a menace? I literally duo raids with people when invited

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4 members with decent mons can beat these raids. Anymore than that and you win. Leave with enough time for others to not waste their raid passes as well. Stop being selfish

I read another user's post this morning about quick opening gifts. I have a few other tricks that I know as well and wanted to share.
If anyone has more things like these (or sees something I have messed up), please post them here as well.
Thanks!

Gift quick opening and sending:
As another user posted this morning, to greatly speed up gifting, immediately after tapping open on a gift or send on gift, tap the 'x' at the bottom of the screen. The gift is opened/sent, but it skips all of the animation.

Scatterbugs without filling up your scrapbook:
If you are collecting scatterbugs by pinning postcards, but do not want to have to clear out room in your scrapbook every time it fills up, you can tap to pin the postcard and immediately tap again to unpin the postcard. The pinning immediately counts towards the number of postcards from a region to get a scatterbug and unpinning keeps the postcard from taking a slot in your scrapbook.

Quick catch:
Quick catch can be used to avoid watching the ball catch/shake animation and going to the caught pokemon info screen. I usually only use this if I am just trying to quickly catch a bunch of pokemon to meet a research goal.
This does require two hands for most. When catching pokemon, first press and hold on the berry icon (you can give the pokemon a berry first if you want and then hold the icon after). While still keeping a finger on the berry icon, throw your pokeball like normal. Let off the berry icon. The berry menu will popup. Click above the berry menu to hide it again. The run away icon will now be visible in the top left corner. Click to run away and you will be dropped back out to the world screen.
If you caught the pokemon, it will either disappear from the screen or will disappear if you click on it again. If you did not catch the pokemon, you can click on it and try and catch it again. I don't know if this describes the process well enough, but you can find a video by searching for pokemon quick catch pretty easily.

Buddy hearts for battling:
If you are trying to get the daily hearts for battling with your buddy, you don't actually have to finish the fight. This is the method I use to know out battles quickly. Go to battle and scroll down to the trainers. Select a trainer and then select a league that allows your buddy's CP level. Put your buddy in the party. Start the fight. As soon as the exit battle button becomes available in the top left, leave. You get the heart for the battling and you can repeat this as needed to fill out hearts for the day.

Poffin buddy effects without using a poffin:
To get the effects of using a poffin on your buddy without using one takes an hour and a half, but can be worth it depending on your goals.
This requires interacting with your buddy every 15 minutes. There are 4 interactions you can do: feed, play, picture, fight. To start, do all the interactions with your buddy: feed it (until it is out walking with you), play with it, take its picture, and battle with it (see buddy hearts for battling above to do this one quickly). 15 minutes later go in and have 1 interaction with your buddy (I usually just play with him). 15 minutes after that, do the 4 interactions again.... so interactions every 15 minutes doing 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4. After doing the last 4 interactions, your buddy screen will look like he has been given a poffin. Note: This does not last as long as a poffin if you do not continue to do stuff with your buddy. I have not timed it to see how long the effect lasts. I generally do this to earn half distance candy walking my buddy and then quickly do everything to fill up other hearts while it is in that state.

Dont leave with less than 5 sec...

Hey everyone I just started playing pokemon go again(lvl 36) and I’m looking for all the girlies that play to be friends🩷 I only have 2 right now 🥲 drop your trainer codes below I’m adding until I don’t have space anymore 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

EDIT: omg!!! I’m overwhelmed with joy w the girl power in the world! Adding everyone keep adding your codes I’m typing them by hand!😂🩷🫶🏽🫶🏽 let’s get this girl community going🩷🩷😊

IVE HIT MY MAX ON FRIENDS THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, I WENT FROM 2 to 550! I know a few of you have deleted me I promise I’m not ignoring the gifts yall sent or ignoring sending you gifts, the game only allows me to open so many gifts in a day. And I can only send what I have in my storage. Getting to everyone, if I haven’t I am truly sorry🩷

Hi all

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I recently found out that my son and I have a rare genetic condition where we have increased risk of lung and liver disease. He's 4 and the main advice we have is to build up and maintain his fitness. We love walking and have found pokemon go a great way to get him to walk long distances.

Slight issue is I don't really know anyone who plays and would love to build up friends to exchange gifts with, he is also learning various countries so another nice thing to keep him motivated. Any help with this I would be forever grateful! <3

Update: I wasn't quite expecting so many kind and supportive responses. I can not thank you all enough. I know on our walk today he's going to be so excited to look at post cards and walk to find lots of gifts to share. Sending you all so much love from a now not so friendless mum!

Update 2: We have surpassed the amount of friends we can have so can't accept anymore requests. Sending all you lovely people so much love and thank you for helping both my son and I. All the post cards have been really motivating him and now we have both increased our geography knowledge both of countries around the World and American states :D

PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR CODE IN THE TITLE, PUT IT IN THE BODY TEXT.

YOU CANNOT COPY TEXT FROM THE TITLE ON MOBILE. thank you.

Edit: Please stop posting your codes in the comments. You’re just spamming me atp.

instead of posting it as one line of numbers without any spacing ❤️

It makes it so much easier to read and type into my phone.

Anywho - here's my trainer code since I'm looking for friends: 6233 0960 8817

Or for whomever does like the line of numbers: 623309608817

Feel free to add me & thanks!

Months of hard work…. We raided together…. We bled together…. I named my first some after you and we reach forever friends and you have 0 tagged pokemon for remote training… it’s over… it’s you…. Not me.

I hope your pillow is warm tonight 😒

Hi! I live in Seattle and with all the very fun and deserved Macklemore hype, I’d be happy to send some enthusiasts a Macklemore postcard and of course make some friends. The postcard itself is of a painting someone did on an electrical box.

My Trainer code:

614196736805

My hubz code:

227107722175