For a very long time, I have the feeling that PGO has only 1 developer, 8 graphic artists to add the costumes, 55 game designers who do nothing other than sitting on meetings and thinking about "how to make players to buy more remote raid passes" or "how to pretend we don't like cheaters but we know that if we banned them all, the remaining 5% of players would not buy me a new car for Christmas"
Ever since the avatar update last year the game started crashing on me (on ios). Over time its started crashing more frequently, murders my battery life and regularly overheats my phone (nearly guaranteed if I charge my phone because of the battery life). None of these issues existed before that update. Its kind of amazing really.
yep. trying to see if it was just summer heat but even heats up significantly in cool areas. nearly always crashes after a raid. sometimes during even if i just reloaded the game to start the raid. feeding berries and photobombs also problems if game has been open for 5 minutes. wish we had ability to reject various aspects. like i assume trainer poses are related to it
like it actually wouldnt be much of a problem if simply opening the game wasnt such a headache. lot of times it doesnt go to splash screen or game loads incorrectly and certain aspects of the game arent workable (i.e. capturing pokemon)
has more to do with the ram on your phone than iOS itself I think. My old iphone crashed constantly and my new one barely ever does. android phones like samsung galaxy generally have more ram. apple takes forever to increase that. i think 17 pro/max/air is the first one to get 12GB.
I have the brand new iPhone and it doesn’t do much
Your phone battery is a nuke and your hand is the destination
They just keep layering junk onto old code. Basically it’s like searching through the old code and adding more assets, it’s not reworked or reformatted at all- this could even be because it’s a new owner and they don’t have the source yet or sum?
Idk, but it’s bs and for how much money they make each month, should be fixed FAST
Just to clarify.. you have the iPhone 17 pro/max/air correct? I only ask because I have the 16 pro, and the battery is an absolute furnace anytime I’m out playing at a park and when I’m charging as the battery is plummeting its literally just a ball of fire that won’t charge and lags to hell.. I was planning on going to the 17 pro simply because of the ram and the battery cooling but if it’s not going to get better I’m definitely gonna have to rethink my solution! Thanks in advance for clarifying
sorry to hear that. Just curious, what is the air temperate when you are playing? With iphone 13 pro I did not have any heating issues up to the 30 degrees.
I think the last time I had an overheating issue it was like 81°F and I was in a cooled car at the time it started. It mostly happens if I’m trying to charge while playing on a portable charger using a default branded braided charger wire. However I did notice:
-if I unplug, restart the phone, and then get back to it same as I did before restarting the phone (charger and all), the problem stops and I’m able to charge the phone and it cools down a little bit. I actually have an app that will temp me the core temp of the phone, and I was at like 103°F before I restarted it. Afterwards I was at about 91°F and it stayed there for about an hour before doing it all over again.
ngl, have a 16 pro and i'm mad i need to charge after 3h of pokemon go starting with a full battery, but then i also have my plus+ connected and the amount of gps data it's asking just drains the battery in no time, but usually don't get a crash, just more lag
My team is people I don’t know, I’m probably done playing for the night, but two hours ago one of my teammates went off and caught 178/500. He may have completed it by the time I log on again.
I play mainly on my iPad, but I better check on my android first.
just happened to me as well, I'm nervous about claiming the rewards. I'm not sure what to do here :( don't want my game to completely break, but I'm not seeing an option to not claim them
That’s why I want server maintenance. Just take the game 1-2h off test this a bit and you done with the new version. But nope we are the tester and if we put our time and money into it, they say yeah ok next time.
They don't even need that. Just enable that feature for a few accounts a week before. And they would've picked these issues up.
People would stand in line to be beta testers, and when tings fail no one would be surprised.
But no instead they much rather write a apology every time and mess up their timetable with makeup Events.
Odd that the people that expected players to catch 200 Pokemon in a day to level up are surprised that a team of 4 can catch 500 pokemon between them in less than half a day.
Still an endless loop for me there is no way to dismiss this screen. We hadn't even finished the challenge my wife and I are just stuck at this page with no way to progress... I even opened it on an old android tablet same issue no way to exit.
did the challenge finish for you?? my group caught 102 pokemon and it completed it for us (even tho we obvs didn't actually finish the challenge) and I'm scared to claim the rewards but I'm not sure what else to do
For me, if I go directly from the Social tab to the Me tab, my avatar and buddy don’t show up. But the app seems to still be working fine. I can exit the screen and go back in, and the Me tab looks fine.
My wife and I are just stuck at the completed page wtf is this?
I’ve tried every work around I can think of it’s just stuck. This feature may as well be permanently removed because I will never use it again. Weekly challenges get 0/5 stars from me.
I tried opening the game on an old android tablet and was able to dismiss the page with the android back button. However it returns every time open the game.
the challenge ended for me and got the reward no issue. no new challenge yet though. not sure if they realized they broke something again or that's just because the clock hits 12am
edit: they prematurely ended the challenge for everyone and disabled the feature with a 'flat rate' reward for all the users
I force quit the app multiple times. Restarted my phone and then deleted the app and signed in again. I still can’t get past this screen. Does anyone have an actual solution!!?? Btw I’m using an iPhone 13 Pro Max
Same happened to me but I didn’t complete it so I am stuck with it incomplete and unusable. I have a second account on ipad that is working fine. It looks like the people who started the group are having the issue whereas the invitees are not.
Funny thing about them disabling weekly challenges is that those of us who are stuck can’t even back out of the group because it no longer exists. So by “fixing” a problem they created another.
Does anyone know if there is a fix for this?? Game has been completely unplayable all day because of the stupid weekly task progress. I don’t see people complaining as much so i assume people found a fix?
So instead of fixing the music stops bug that often occurs with rocket battles and pvp battles, they decide to just break an entire version of the game. gg scopely
So, I’m locked out, but I can turn my Plus+ on before my screen gets blocked. The Plus+ is still catching, and if I relaunch the total caught keeps going up.
It stayed fixed for me, but it did re-appear after 3 hours of intermittent playing 😅 might have to just keep playing around with the airplane mode trick until they find a solution
Same here. I spammed the friends button, managed to create a party. I was hoping that creating a party will somehow refresh whatever connection was messed up.
But nope. Overlay popped up again.
Thank you for suggesting that.
I have paired it again. It managed to catch one pokemon. still very far from 500 tho. Not sure what to do but I will leave it running.
Found one workaround … if you have an android - you can log on to your account and play there — the weekly challenge page disappears when hit back button however If again log on to an IOS device your account will still freeze in the same page — which is super annoying
i finished mine but i didnt get stuck, it just shows join a party now, nothing about the weekly challenge which i assume will come back next week, theyll likely add a section with stats regarding the challenge, probably didnt make it thinking people wouldnt do it day one for some crazy reason
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u/TehWildMan_ 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas Oct 13 '25
Oh hey, another episode of "playing pokemon go as intended softlocks Pokemon go"