Niantic has added the option to see Wayspots that are not used in Ingress when nominating new Portals!

This feature helps Agents to ensure that they don't nominate duplicate Wayspots that have already been accepted but don't appear in Ingress due to the inclusion rules. When nominating new Portals, a new toggle can now be set which shows all Wayspot in a ~200m radius around your current location.

At the moment this also includes a swath of POIs that have been automatically imported from various sources that are only used as Power Spots in Pokemon GO but don't actually appear when reviewing on Wayfarer. If you see a Wayspot that is "Used in another Niantic games" with no picture or description the chances are high that it is a Power Spot and you can actually nominate it anyway (assuming they meet Wayfarer criteria, of course)! It remains to be seen if these specific POIs will remain on the duplicate map for Ingress or if Niantic will hide them in the future.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/901

@IUENG

The preliminary results of the APAC +Alpha Skirmishes have been published!

Shard Skirmishes
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
ENL 0.0 (0) - (18) 12.6 RES

🇦🇺 Canberra, Australia
ENL 11.2 (16) - (3) 2.1 RES

🇰🇷 Daegu, South Korea
ENL 7.7 (11) - (11) 7.7 RES

🇯🇵 Kagoshima, Japan
ENL 8.4 (12) - (9) 6.3 RES

🇵🇭 Baguio, Philippines
ENL 17.5 (25) - (0) 0.0 RES

🇹🇼 Donggang, Taiwan
ENL 0.0 (0) - (25) 17.5 RES

🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
ENL 7.7 (11) - (13) 9.1 RES

🇹🇼 Zhubei, Taiwan
ENL 14.0 (20) - (4) 2.8 RES

🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
ENL 7.0 (10) - (9) 6.3 RES

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
ENL 0.0 (0) - (18) 12.6 RES

🇮🇩 South Jakarta, Indonesia
ENL 8.4 (12) - (2) 1.4 RES

🇱🇰 Galle, Sri Lanka
ENL 11.2 (16) - (2) 1.4 RES

🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
ENL 13.3 (19) - (3) 2.1 RES

Total Score
ENL 106.4 - 81.9 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the APAC +Alpha Skirmishes!

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 695.2 - RES 474.0

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

After the investigation concerning the +Alpha Shard Skirmish in Donggang, Taiwan, Niantic revised the score of the event to
ENL 0.0 (0) - (25) 17.5 RES

The previous post has been updated, and the final score of the APAC +Alpha Skirmishes is
ENL 106.4 - 81.9 RES

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/910

@IUENG

New Agents that are just starting out are receiving a special, permanent Campaign that teaches them the basics of Ingress via Bounties.

The Ingress Challenge Compendium contains 34 distinct Bounties which reward 80 AP each when completed as well as an additional 10.000 AP once all Bounties have been claimed, giving them a great head start in their journey.

While veteran Agents do not have access to this Campaign it is still interesting to see which Bounties are possible in a Campaign, such as "Recycle X items", "Attempt X Glyph Hacks" or "Hack X Portal Keys", which could all be used in future Campaigns. It is also interesting to see that Assignments can be permanent which might be used to give Agents something bigger to work towards.

@IUENG

As reported by us a while back, Niantic has decided to sell Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now as well as Campfire and Wayfarer to Scopely. Niantic will also spin off their geospatial side into a new Company called Niantic Spatial.

Ingress (and Peridot) are not included in the sale and will remain under the umbrella of Niantic Spatial and John Hanke!

As mentioned by Niantic:

Niantic Spatial will continue to own and operate our other real-world AR games, Ingress Prime and Peridot, as best-in-class applications of the geospatial platform.

It is currently unknown how the sale of Wayfarer will impact suggesting, editing and reporting Portals. The main Lightship database with all of its POIs will also remain with Niantic Spartial.

Source (Niantic)
Source (Scopely)
Source (Ingress team)

@IUENG

In just a little more than 24 hours, +Alpha Skirmishes will take place in 13 locations across the Americas!

As a reminder, here is the list of involved cities:

Beacon Skirmishes
🇺🇸 Champaign, IL, USA

Shard Skirmishes
🇵🇾 Asunción, Paraguay
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
🇨🇱 Coquimbo, Chile
🇧🇷 Goiânia, Brazil
🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
🇺🇸 Norfolk, VA, USA
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, OK, USA
🇺🇸 Orono, ME, USA
🇵🇪 Piura, Peru
🇵🇦 Panama City, Panama
🇺🇸 Tampa, FL, USA
🇨🇦 Victoria, BC, Canada

The Skirmishes will start at 16:00 local time and will last 1h40m in total.

Almost 6 hours of action await, starting at 19:00 UTC. Final results should be expected shortly after the last events end, at 00:40 UTC.

@IUENG

The final scores for the +Alpha Skirmishes in the AMER region were published!

Beacon Skirmishes
🇺🇸 Champaign, IL, USA
ENL (358) 9.0 - 7.6 (304) RES

Shard Skirmishes
🇵🇾 Asunción, Paraguay
ENL (19) 13.3 - 0.0 (0) RES

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
ENL (14) 9.8 - 4.9 (7) RES

🇨🇱 Coquimbo, Chile
ENL (18) 12.6 - 0.7 (1) RES

🇧🇷 Goiânia, Brazil
ENL (0) 0.0 - 16.8 (24) RES

🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
ENL (10) 7.0 - 9.4 (12) RES

🇺🇸 Norfolk, VA, USA
ENL (11) 7.7 - 7.7 (11) RES

🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, OK, USA
ENL (16) 11.2 - 1.4 (2) RES

🇺🇸 Orono, ME, USA
ENL (7) 4.9 - 5.6 (8) RES

🇵🇦 Panama City, Panama
ENL (1) 0.7 - 9.1 (13) RES

🇵🇪 Piura, Peru
ENL (14) 9.8 - 7.7 (11) RES

🇺🇸 Tampa, FL, USA
ENL (15) 10.5 - 2.1 (3) RES

🇨🇦 Victoria, BC, Canada
ENL (24) 16.8 - 0.0 (0) RES

Total Score
ENL 113.3 - 72.0 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the +Alpha Skirmishes in the AMER Region!

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 808.5 - RES 546.0

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

Over the last few days new Media items have made their way into the Portal Network containing documents reaching back to the Cryptic Memories series.

It seems like Niantic is catching up on the lore that was left at the wayside for the last few Anomaly seasons, trying to retroactively backfill it to catch up to today. As an example, in todays new Media drop we have learned that Machina is not some sort of virus or an alien force, but part of experiments conducted by the IQTech company on an XM Artifact which resonates in a way that activates dormant Portals, which in turn resonate in the same way leading to more dormant Portals activating and so on.

If you are interested in following this emerging story, keep an eye out for newly hacked media or head over to @IUENG_Extra where we will post each new Media as they appear!

@IUENG

Niantic has shared an email from John Hanke sent to Niantic employees in which it was revealed that due to the startup nature of the new Niantic Spatial company certain roles would not be required anymore and the impacted employees would be let go.

It is with a heavy heart that we report that this also incudes Thia Hightower, Operations Manager for Ingress, who has been let go from Niantic.

This follows a deletion of her Telegram account, her Telegram channel and her Twitter account that she has been using for work and for communication with Agents, as well as her Slack account that she has been using for internal communication.

Thia joined the Ingress team in June 2021 and has been a much needed link between Niantic and the Community, helping out Agents and listening to their feedback on Ingress.

From the entire IUENG team, thank you for your work these past years, and we hope that your next journey will be smooth sailing no matter where you go. ❤️

Source: https://nianticlabs.com/news/niantic-spatial-evolve

@IUENG

The +Alpha Bounty Blitz for the APAC Region has concluded!

The score reported on the Scanner at the end of this challenge (Niantic will soon report the confirmed score on their website) results in the following series points:
ENL 50.8 - 49.2 RES

The Enlightened win the APAC Bounty Blitz and set the series score at:
ENL 859.3 - 595.2 RES

The next and final event in the +Alpha Series' is the +Alpha Anomaly in Naples today! Agents are already gearing up to claim the series in the decisive battle!

@IUENG

The final battle in the +Alpha series begins in just 10 minutes in Naples, Italy! Agents are making their way to their starting positions and are warming up their scanner to ensure the best possible point gain they can archive.

Earlier in the weekend, Agents also competed in GORUCK Stealth and GORUCK Urban for some additional series points. The results are as follows:

GORUCK Stealth
ENL 4 - 3 RES

GORUCK Urban
ENL 5.6 - 1.4 RES

Just ahead of the final battle the series score therefore stands at
ENL 868.9 - 559.6 RES

We wish everyone in Naples best of luck and a lot of fun!

Ph.: @Himav

@IUENG

The +Alpha Anomaly in Naples has ended!

It's been 3 hours of intense battle between Enlightened and Resistance. We hope great fun was had by everyone involved on the ground and remotely!
Now it's time to wind down and enjoy the after-party! 🍻

Scores should get published soon! We are going to post them here as soon as they are available.

@IUENG

The scores for Naples are in and look as follows:

ENL 97.1 - 110.5 RES

With the +Alpha Series points standing at

ENL 966 - 670,1 RES

after the last Anomaly, we finally have our winners!

🟢 The Enlightened win the +Alpha Anomaly Series!

The Enlightened keeps going strong and wins the first anomaly series for 2025.

Congratulations Agents! It's time for celebrations!

Next up will be the +Theta Series, which will accompany us throughout Q2 2025!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

🇮🇹 +Alpha Anomaly Naples

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 486 - 844 RES
Final Score
ENL 34 - 59 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 8 (1 unscored) - 7 RES
Final Score
ENL 49.6 - 43.4 RES

Covert Cache
% Bonus
ENL 1R | 1C, 1VR RES
Season Points bonus
ENL 1R | 1C RES

Goruck Stealth Ops
ENL 4 - 3 RES
Goruck Urban Ops
ENL 5.6 - 1.4 RES

Final Event Score
ENL 97.1 - 110.5 RES

🔵 The Resistance capture the +Alpha Anomaly in Naples!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

🥪 A Toast to Community Manager Thia

The Ingress global community is organizing a beacon lighting worldwide to honor the work of Thia, former Community Manager, who was impacted by the recent layoffs following the restructuring of Niantic into Niantic Spatial.

In celebration of her time supporting the Ingress community, join us on April 1st, all day, by deploying a Toast! Beacon in a tribute to Community Manager Thia!

We invite all of you to share a picture of your scanner and any memories you have on social media with #IngressToast!

@IUENG

📖 Today, Agents have reported coming into contact with the first media regarding the Buried Memories Anomaly Series.

As always, if you are interested in lore, we are summarizing their content over on @IUENG_Extra.
A big thank you to all Agents who are sharing their discoveries with us!

@IUENG

Portals around the world are transforming into Couch Portals (hah, get it?)!

Agents are reporting that Portals have their Portal image overwritten by an image of a couch in the respective Portals color randomly upon tapping on a portal. The pictures can be forced by repeatedly opening and closing a portal until they show up, but they don't always show. The original photos are not lost though and can still be seen through the Intel Map as well as the Portal details if there are two or more pictures on a Portal.

With this, Niantic has initiated this year's April Fools, and it remains to be seen if any other changes will be observed over the day. If that is the case we'll update you as soon as possible!

@IUENG

Big changes are coming to IUENG! Since 2016, we've kept this channel free for Agents worldwide, fostering calm, collected discussions (with absolutely no problems ever). But let’s be real—free is overrated.

In partnership with Viewly Investments, we’re thrilled to announce that our beloved discussion platforms are evolving into a premium experience. Viewly’s expertise in monetizing basic human interaction ensures our communities will remain exclusive, engaging, and—most importantly—profitable.

For details, check out Viewly’s full announcement attached. Today, April 1st, we’re offering an exclusive demo of these exciting new paywalls. Don’t worry—your past messages will be preserved, for just $4.99/month.

Plus, we’re replacing our human support team with HUMAN™ AI Community Manager, Roger (@itsisntremy on Telegram), ensuring our revenue stays on track without pesky “human errors.”

At IUENG, we believe the best experiences are the ones you keep paying for. Get ready for the future—one microtransaction at a time.

@IUENG

Want more ways to spend money? Niantic has just announced a unique opportunity to participate in a limited-time trial run of a brand-new feature: Temporary Couch Portals!

For a small fee of just $99.99 you'll be able to purchase your very own Couch Portal at a location of your choosing, as well as choose one of four Couch colors! During this trial, the portal will become active for 7 days sometime during April after purchase with automatically assigned names.

As per usual, if you believe a portal should be removed, it can be reported in the scanner, and the Ingress team may remove them at any time if they violate any of the terms laid out in the article.

Depending on the feedback of this trial, Niantic will decide if this feature will continue to be offered in the future.

Don't be late and get your own Couch Portal now: https://ingressmerch.myshopify.com/products/temporary-couch-portal

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-apr-couchportaltrialrun

⚠ Beware of any news on April 1st...

@IUENG

Ingress will be separated from Niantic Wayfarer and the Wayfarer map

As part of Scopelys acquisition, Niantic Wayfarer will transition to Scopely in the coming weeks and months. As Ingress is not part of the deal, the game (and Niantic Spatial as a company) will be separated from the program and receive a new system to contribute data.

What this exactly means:
- Until the transition, Agents can continue to use Niantic Wayfarer with their account. New submissions, edits etc. will still be reviewed by the community for the time being, with all changes coming to all current games.
- After the transition, the Niantic Wayfarer map will be split from the new Niantic Spatial map. Contributions by Agents will not sync to the Wayfarer map, and contributions by Scopely players will likewise not affect the Ingress map.
- Niantic Spatial is developing a new map management system to aid in the goal of contributing map data to their database. Agents will need to use that system in the future to contribute to the game.
- While not exactly hashed out yet, the Wayfarer team is working with the Niantic Spatial team to ensure that the OPR Badge progress will be carried over.
- ⚠️ If you have created a Wayfarer account prior to the transition you will continue to have access to Niantic Wayfarer to review contributions and view your history. Remember though that due to the split, any rewards gained or submissions accepted will not be reflected in Ingress.

TL;DR: Ingress will be split from Niantic Wayfarer. New Portals and edits will be reviewed by a new tool, and accepted submissions will not be added to Wayfarer (PoGo, Monster Hunter etc.). Likewise, submissions from Wayfarer will not be added to Ingress.

The exact date of the transition is still unknown.

Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/important-updates-regarding-wayfarer-and-ingress/83722

@IUENG

The first changes to Ingress in preparation for the entrance of Niantic Spatial have been announced!

🔸Login with Facebook will be disabled. Agents who use this login method are advised to link a new sign-in platform (Google or Apple) as soon as possible to not lose access to their account.
🔸Campfire will be removed. The social will lose integration with Ingress before the end of the month
🔸Your Niantic profile will be removed from your Ingress Agent profile. Ingress ceases to be listed as a Niantic game.

The dev team also advises that the regular flow of updates may have some disruption due to the amount of work that needs to be carried out to complete the transition. This work will not impact Ingress Live events (Anomalies, MDs and so on).

Source: https://ingress.com/news/getting-ready-for-niantic-spatial

@IUENG