The full schedule of Ingress Events in Q2 2026, the Orion Anomaly season, has been published!

This Season continues the trend of a tiered Anomaly Season medal, an exclusive Onsite medal as well as a Global Campaign Medal.

🔸Orion Season Medal (4-tiered):
Based on participation in Ingress First Saturday events and performance in both Global Campaign and Anomaly battles. (The newly added Platinum tier is feasible even without participation in an Anomaly or First Saturday event, provided that Agents participate in Daily Bounties, the Orion Global Campaign and the other free global events. Skipping even one makes it much more difficult)
🔸Commemorative Orion Onsite Medal (single-tiered): Earned simply by participating in any Anomaly battle onsite.
🔸Global Campaign Medal (3-tiered): Based solely on performance during the Global Campaign.

April
4th: #IngressFS
12th: #Ingress2S
7 April 18:00 UTC - 30 April 18:00 UTC: Sakura Blossom Festival
24 April 18:00 UTC - 11 May 18:00 UTC: Orion Global Campaign

May
Early May: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
This Dispatch operation will span multiple weekends.
2nd: #IngressFS
10th: #Ingress2S
16 May: 🇦🇺🇨🇿 XM Anomaly in Sydney, NSW, Australia and Prague, Czechia
Late May: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
This Dispatch operation will span multiple weekends.
30 May: 🇯🇵🇺🇸XM Anomaly in Kure City, Hiroshima Pref, Japan and Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

June
6th: #IngressFS
14th: #Ingress2S
Mid June: Summer Solstice 2026
This operation will span multiple weekends.
20 June: 🇨🇭🇵🇪XM Anomaly in Geneva, Switzerland and Lima, Peru

Finally, the locations for Q3 2026 XM Anomalies have been published:

18 Jul 2026 @ 🇫🇮Helsinki, Finland and 🇨🇴Bogotá, Colombia
22 Aug 2026 @ 🇰🇷Seoul, South Korea and 🇫🇷Paris, France
19 Sep 2026 @ 🇸🇬Singapore and 🇺🇸Denver, CO, USA

Niantic stated that, starting with 2026 Q3, the Commemorative Onsite Anomaly Medal may come with a premium edition.

As always, we will explain each event in more detail in future posts once more details become available!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-q2-events

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The Ingress First Saturday for April will be the first opportunity of this year for Agents to receive access to the ITO EN Dispatch Campaign, together with the exclusive ITO EN Medal!

IFS organizers will, depending on the amount of people that have RSVPed, recieve a number of passcodes that will award access to the ITO EN Dispatch campaign. Organizers can decide themselves how they want to distribute these codes, but Fev Games encourages them to be prizes for the IFS.

If you can make it to an IFS, then April will be the perfect time to attend as you will not only get a tick for your First Saturday badge, a chance for the ITO EN Dispatch Campaign and x2 AP, but also Tokens for the new Orion Anomaly Season that will count towards the new, 4-tier Anomaly Season medal!

Find an event to attend here: ingressfs.com

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An open letter to Niantic about Anomaly organisation has gained significant traction across the XFAC community on Reddit.

A member of the Ingress community close to the organization of Anomaly events published a detailed post addressed directly to Niantic Spatial, raising two main concerns: the legal exposure of volunteer POCs and the direction of Anomaly Season design.

On legal responsibility and Anomaly timing
In countries like Germany, Switzerland, France and Singapore (and Italy too, in a minor way, ed.), running a public event comes with real legal obligations, such as permits, regulatory compliance, accountability to authorities, and the prospect of substantial fines if something goes wrong. According to the post, these obligations should belong to Niantic, even though POC volunteers in the recent past were luckily skilled enough to deal with the legal aspect of an Ingress event.

The specific points raised are:
🔸POCs are volunteers: they are not Niantic's legal representatives
🔸Fines for non-compliant events are not symbolic: they can be significant
🔸Nobody signs up as a POC to become a company's legal fallback

The letter also discusses Niantic's event planning choices, specifically the timing and legality of events such as scheduling an Anomaly in Geneva during a G7 summit, choosing Paris with its strict public assembly laws without providing organisers the support to navigate them or placing events in Jersey City and Bogotá during the FIFA World Cup, when infrastructure is strained and logistics are a nightmare. The post argues that none of this is obscure knowledge, and yet volunteers are left dealing with these issues.

On Anomaly Season design
The second part of the letter addresses what is seen as a structural drift away from what makes Ingress distinct. With Anomalies now a component of the larger Anomaly Season badge, and bounty-based scoring consolidating faction results into a pure headcount contest, the letter argues that coordinated, strategic play is being devalued:

🔸Larger factions gain a near-automatic advantage in bounty scoring
🔸Individual stat challenges (Global Ops etc.) reduce the need for inter-agent coordination
🔸The format that made anomalies compelling, smaller groups outplaying larger ones through strategy, becomes largely irrelevant

The letter closes with a reminder that the Ingress community has always been willing to carry significant weight in supporting events, but that personal legal liability is a line it should never be asked to cross.
The post is currently being widely shared and discussed across both factions.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/1s6syo5/dear_niantic_open_letter_from_one_of_your_players/

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🐄 April Fools' 2026 - Farmgress Campaign

Agents from Oceania are reporting the appearance of a new Campaign in their scanners, just as April 1st rolls in across the Pacific.

The Campaign is called Farmgress and yes, the prize for each completed task is reportedly a farm animal. 🐱🐮🐴🐔

We are currently unable to confirm what form these animals take, whether as an in-game item, or an actual livestock delivery to your registered address. Niantic has not yet commented.

The campaign will be available for 6 days and consists of one single assignment, rewarding agents with one VR Multi-hack upon completion.

Tasks are said to include classics such as deploying Resonators (near actual farms) or hacking a Portal (preferably in the middle of a pasture).

We will keep you updated as more details (and animals) emerge.

@IUENG

Farmers, open the Ingress Farmgress app! It's time to take care of your crops, animals and produce!

The Ingress app has received a overhaul for April Fools and the Animals that you can earn by completing the special Campaign are roaming the map, together with the NL-1331 van and the Toast! Your avatar is also sporting a strawhat to help with your work.

Not a fan of the new Farmgress update? You can head to the settings and disable the visual changes on the map at the very bottom via the "Farmer Mode" setting.

Check out the official announcement here: https://ingress.com/news/2026-farmgresslaunch

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A special April Fools' 2026 Medal is also available in the store for 10,000 CMU.

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The Ingress team has revealed details about the Sakura Blossom Festival 2026 event!

A total of 6 Dispatch Campaign will be available, each awarding a badge or giving wings for old ones:

- Sakura Blossom 2026 Campaign (free)
Rewards include up to 3,000 Orion Tokens and the new Sakura Blossom 2026 medal

- Sakura Branch 2026 Campaign (15,000 CMU)
Rewards the new Sakura Branch 2026 medal

- Sakura Tree 2026 Campaign (15,000 CMU)
Rewards the new Sakura Tree 2026 medal

- Sakura Blossom 2021 Redux Campaign (2,500 CMU)
Rewards the Sakura Blossom 2021 medal or awards you wings for it if already owned

- Sakura Tree 2021 Redux Campaign (2,500 CMU)
Rewards the Sakura Tree 2021 medal or awards you wings for it if already owned

- Sakura Branch 2021 Redux Campaign (2,500 CMU)
Rewards the Sakura Branch 2021 medal or awards you wings for it if already owned

In addition, it seems like the XM itself will shift its shape into cherry blossoms during the event period from 7 April 2026 at 18:00 UTC to 30 April 2026 at 18:00 UTC! 🌸

Source: https://ingress.com/en/news/2026-sakura

@IUENG

We have received reports from Agents about a change in the process of opening a support ticket.

From now on, requests will only be submitted via support.ingress.com, the support platform based on Zendesk, replacing the Ingress Scanner as the method of submission.

The full switch to Zendesk brings some neat quality-of-life features, such as logging in with your email to see a list of all your past tickets made through the new system and the ability to open multiple tickets and to do so on a PC, as it is a browser-based application. The new system also features a verification system that does not allow users to open requests in the name of other Agents.

Finally, you will receive an automatic email when opening a new ticket, with its ID enclosed.

You can submit new support requests here: https://support.ingress.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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With the first regions of the world now hitting April 8th, the hunt (delayed by a day) for the Orion Tokens has begun! The Daily Bounties now include 10 Tokens per individual Bounty as well as 20 Tokens for each of the two daily Milestones. New for this season is that the Tokens from the Daily Bounties do not replace any existing rewards but are rather added on top of them.

As a recap, this is how many Tokens you will be able to earn globally, no matter your location:

Daily Bounties: 6,720 Tokens
(84 days * 80 Tokens per day)

Event Campaigns: 12,000 Tokens
(4 events * 3,000¹ Tokens per event)

Global Op: 7,500 Tokens

Total globally available Tokens: 26,220 Tokens
(1,220 more than the needed 25,000 for the Platinum tier of the Orion Seasonal badge)

(¹: The team initially announced that the 4 Event Campaigns will only award 2,500 Tokens, which would not have been enough to reach the Platinum tier. This amount was quietly changed to 3,000 Tokens per Event a short while ago)

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In addition, you can also earn more tokens by attending one of these location-specific Events:

First Saturday: 7,500 Tokens
(3 IFS * 2,500 Tokens per Event)

XM Anomaly: 15,000 Tokens
(3 Anomaly Weekends * 5,000 Tokens per Weekend)

Attending an Ingress First Saturday is a great way to quickly and easily earn Tokens if you can make it to one! The 2,500 Tokens you gain by successfully checking in equate to 31 Days of fully completing all Daily Bounties and their Milestones! In addition, this season you have the chance to earn a passcode for the ITO EN Dispatch campaign which awards you the new ITO EN medal. Check ingressfs.com for nearby First Saturday events.

(All the calculations above assume that you perfectly complete each Event)

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The Sakura Blossom Festival 2026 Event has started and the Ingress scanner is filled with falling cherry blossom petals and a digital Cherry Tree in the main menu!

Starting now until 30 April 2026 at 18:00 UTC, this visual change is available in the Scanner to celebrate the time of cherry trees blossoming all around the world. In addition, up to 6 Campaigns can now be worked on to earn various medals, such as the 3 new Sakura Medals pictured above!

If you don't like this visual change you are able to return to the normal Scanner look by heading to the settings and unchecking the "SETTINGS_SEASONAL_EFFECTS" setting at the very bottom.

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🔕The earlier error with purchasing the Campaigns has been fixed! Restart the Scanner if you still have problems.

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📊 Anomaly Score Predictor - Now Open for Beta Testing!

Agents, a new tool built by one of the admins of @IUENG has just launched: a website where you can predict the scores of upcoming Anomaly events and compete on a global leaderboard!

The platform is currently open for the first round of events with the Orion Series. A contest based on the leaderboard results will be running here on @IUENG with loadouts at stake for the first three positions, so your predictions will actually matter. 🏆
And no, before you ask: no betting with money is involved or planned.

🔸 How scoring works

There are four types of events to predict:

🔸 Series Winner - Pick which faction wins the overall series. 50 pts or nothing.
🔸 Anomalies - Predict the ENL/RES score split. Up to 120 pts, with a forgiving ±20% tolerance window. A near-miss still scores, and a strong call can open a real gap over the competition.
🔸 Global Challenge / First Saturday - Same format, but the window shrinks to ±5%. These events tend to finish very close to 50/50, so being precise is everything. Up to 72 pts.
🔸 Minor Events - (not available this series) Just pick the winning faction. Only 15 pts each, but usually there are many per series.

All feedback is welcome! Bugs, suggestions, missing features... shout them out in this telegram group!

👉 https://anomalypredictions.crlb.dev

Put your Ingress intuition to the test. Good luck out there, Agents! 🔵🟢

@IUENG