Operation Portal Recon is (almost) back!

With the database between Scopely and Spatial now split, each dataset now needs to have seperate contribution and reviewing mechanisms. While Scopely took over Wayfarer and Pokémon GO continued as usual, Ingress players had to wait until Niantic Spatial was ready to accept new contributions.

That time is now! New nominations as well as Portal edits have been re-enabled, and you can now start submitting things again and build a backlog for the new reviewing system, Operation Portal Recon, which will launch soon™.

The actual procedure of submitting contributions has not changed.

Operation Portal Recon will be available via this website once it launches: https://www.nianticspatial.com/recon

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/953

@IUENG

🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧ Pride Month 2025 is here!

Niantic enabled the rainbow tint on XM to celebrate Pride month in-game! It will be enabled throughout June.

Pride month is a time to honor and support the LGBTQ+ community. We celebrate diversity, love, and the ongoing fight for equality. Wherever you are in the world, this is the period where, more than ever, we are invited to come together to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone.

Happy Pride! 🏳‍🌈🏳‍⚧

#IngressPride
@IUENG

Several hours ago the final scores for the +Theta Skirmishes in the AMER region were published!

Shard Skirmishes
🇺🇸 Spokane, USA
ENL 3 (2.1) - (13.3) 19 RES

🇺🇸 Tempe, USA
ENL 24 (16.8) - (0.0) 0 RES

🇨🇦 Edmonton, Canada
ENL 17 (11.9) - (2.1) 3 RES

🇬🇹 Guatemala City, Guatemala
ENL 5 (3.5) - (0.0) 0 RES

🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
ENL 8 (5.6) - (9.1) 13 RES

🇵🇪 Arequipa, Peru
ENL 13 (9.1) - (1.4) 2 RES

🇵🇪 Chiclayo, Peru
ENL 19 (13.3) - (1.4) 2 RES

🇨🇴 Medellín, Colombia
ENL 3 (2.1) - (11.9) 17 RES

🇺🇸 Minneapolis, USA
ENL 20 (14.0) - (2.1) 3 RES

🇨🇱 Concepción, Chile
ENL 7 (4.9) - (7.0) 10 RES

🇺🇸 Gainesville, FL, USA
ENL 16 (11.2) - (0.0) 0 RES

🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
ENL 14 (9.8) - (2.1) 3 RES

🇧🇷 Brasília, Brazil
ENL 0 (0.0) - (17.5) 25 RES

Shard Singulars
ENL 21 - 48 RES

Total Score
ENL 125.3 - 115.9 RES

🟢 The Enlightened captures the +Theta Skirmishes in the AMER Region and the attached Shard Singulars!

+Theta Series Score
ENL 650.9 - 525.2 RES

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

@IUENG

Niantic highlighted the EMEA region locations which will host a +Theta Shard Singular on June 7th!

🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
🇵🇱 Luboń, Poland
🇩🇪 Nuremberg, Germany
🇮🇹 Fiumicino, Italy
🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
🇫🇷 Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Plymouth, England
🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal

In these locations, a Shard will spawn at 1100 local time. Factions will battle for 6 hours and will obtain points by making it jump on links!

For a full recap of this event and all the rules for the +Theta Season, check out our Anomaly Guide!

More info: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plustheta-skirmishsites#shardsingular-rules

@IUENG

And after the EMEA region several hours ago, Niantic also highlighted the AMER region locations which will host a +Theta Shard Singular on June 7th!

🇧🇷 Recife, Brazil
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
🇨🇴 Cartagena, Colombia
🇺🇸 Orlando, FL, USA
🇺🇸 Columbus, OH, USA
🇺🇸 Fort Worth, TX, USA
🇺🇸 Milwaukee, WI, USA
🇨🇦 Vancouver, BC, Canada

In these locations, a Shard will spawn at 1100 local time. Factions will battle for 6 hours and will obtain points by making it jump on links!

For a full recap of this event and all the rules for the +Theta Season, check out our Anomaly Guide!

More info: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plustheta-skirmishsites#shardsingular-rules

@IUENG

Niantic has published the final scores for the +Theta Skirmishes in the APAC region!

Shard Skirmishes
🇦🇺 Adelaide, Australia
ENL 11 (7.7) - (4.2) 6 RES

🇰🇷 Busan, Korea
ENL 1 (0.7) - (13.3) 19 RES

🇯🇵 Asahikawa, Japan
ENL 9 (6.3) - (5.6) 8 RES

🇯🇵 Morioka, Japan
ENL 15 (10.5) - (6.3) 9 RES

🇯🇵 Matsuyama, Japan
ENL 2 (1.4) - (8.4) 12 RES

🇯🇵 Kumamoto, Japan
ENL 20 (14.0) - (1.4) 2 RES

🇹🇼 Hualien, Taiwan
ENL 2 (1.4) - (14.0) 20 RES

🇹🇼 Taichung, Taiwan
ENL 12 (8.4) - (4.9) 7 RES

🇮🇩 Malang, Indonesia
ENL 0 (0.0) - (24) 16.8 RES

🇻🇳 Hanoi, Vietnam
ENL 0 (0.0) - (17.5) 25 RES

🇮🇳 Bengaluru, India
ENL 16 (11.2) - (3.5) 5 RES

🇮🇳 Mumbai, India
ENL 4 (2.8) - (11.2) 16 RES

Beacon Skirmishes
🇯🇵 Utsunomiya, Japan
ENL 251 (6.275) - (3.600) 144 RES

Shard Singulars
ENL 37 - 36 RES

Total Score
ENL 107.7 - 146.7 RES

🔵 The Resistance captures the +Theta Skirmishes in the APAC Region and the attached Shard Singulars!

+Theta Series Score
ENL 758.6 - 671.9 RES

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

@IUENG

Agent PkmnTrainerJ is interviewing former Technical Artist on Ingress Alex Stamm for their Ingress Insights podcast!

Alex was responsible for a lot of features we now use in Ingress, such as working on the Dispatch system, the colored XM and the recent Scanner Rendering Update. They were sadly let go from Niantic during the transition to Niantic Spatial not long ago.

Do you have questions for Alex? You have until June 15th to ask them on the Reddit thread below!

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/s/ViWmldUcNm

In the mood for a listen? You can find the Ingress Insights Podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/63ky0JsOsVqLUgtO5Vi53C

@IUENG

Google Cloud is currently experiencing issues globally which in turn affects services build on it, including the Ingress Scanner and the Intel map.

While the Ingress team is aware, his outage is currently out of their hands until the engineers at Google get the servers back under control. We will update you once the outage has been resolved.

https://t.me/NianticOfficial/959

@IUENG

The game is recovering and the Intel Map can also be used again. Both of them may still be a bit slow but should be able to be used again.

@IUENG

Anker is recalling their PowerCore 10000 power banks in the USA!

It has been discovered that the battery in the power bank can overheat which has led to at least 19 reported cases of fires or explosions. As a lot of Agents have been using Anker power banks while playing we believe it important to share this product recall.

The specific model that is being recalled has been sold online at Anker, Amazon, Newegg and Ebay from June 2016 through December 2022 for about $27. The specific model number "A1263" is printed on the front of the affected power banks. Only power banks sold in the US are part of this recall, and around 1,158,000 units are affected.

If you believe that you have an affected model, Anker urges you to stop using it immediately and submit a claim for either a replacement or a gift card. To initiate the process, please read through the guidance Anker has put out here: https://www.anker.com/a1263-recall

@IUENG

The +Theta Anomaly weekends in Chemnitz, Germany and Perth, Australia have officially begin with GORUCK Ops in both cities!

The Stealth Ops have now ended in Chemnitz, and the first points for this weekend have been scored by the Factions

🇦🇺 Perth, Australia
ENL 4 - 3 RESULTS

🇩🇪 Chemnitz, Germany
ENL 3 (4.2) - (2.8) 2 RES
Series points in parentheses

@IUENG

🇦🇺 +Theta Anomaly Perth, Australia

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 226 - 147 RES
Final Score
ENL 56.3 - 36.7 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 67 - 27 RES
Final Score
ENL 66.3 - 26.7 RES

Anomaly Bounty
Average bounties
ENL 5.2 - 4.49 RES
Final score
ENL 26.8 - 23.2 RES

Goruck Stealth Ops
ENL 4 - 3 RES
Goruck Urban Ops
ENL 2.8 - 4.2 RES

Final Event Score
ENL 156.2 - 93.8 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the +Theta Anomaly in Perth!

Current +Theta Series Score
ENL 914.8 - 767.7 RES

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

@IUENG

The results for the last Anomaly which was held in Chemnitz, Germany have been posted!

With the final scores now standing at 1033.8 to 898.7...

🟢 The Enlightened have won the +Theta Anomaly Series!

We hope Agents from both factions had fun fighting for their cause over the last months.

We will post the detailed score of Chemnitz, which was captured by the Resistance, in a bit.

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

@IUENG

🇩🇪 +Theta Anomaly Chemnitz, Germany

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 817 - 1107 RES
Final Score
ENL 39.5 - 53.5 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 40 - 47 RES
Final Score
ENL 42.8 - 50.2 RES

Anomaly Bounty
Average bounties
ENL 5.16 - 3.38 RES
Final score
ENL 30.2 - 19.8 RES

Goruck Stealth Ops
ENL 4.2 - 2.8 RES
Goruck Urban Ops
ENL 2.3 - 4.7 RES

Final Event Score
ENL 119 - 131 RES

🔵 The Resistance capture the +Theta Anomaly in Chemnitz!

Final +Theta Series Score
ENL 1033.8 - 898.7 RES

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

@IUENG

XF Swag Meeting in Chemnitz!

Following Sunday's anomaly in Chemnitz, agents gathered for our traditional XF swag meetup - and what a blast it was!
Agents had an amazing time trading swag and connecting with fellow players. The excitement was contagious as everyone walked away with fantastic new items for their collections!

XF swag chats are already set up for upcoming European Anomalies in:
• Gothenburg 🇸🇪
• Cambridge 🇬🇧
• Valencia 🇪🇸
• The Hague 🇳🇱

Links will be shared in the global swag chat and faction channels soon!

Many thanks to @mimtwin, @Janis1979 and the participants to the XF swag meetup for their pictures!

@IUENG

Perceived value of +Theta rewards
For the first time Niantic has offered a paid upgrade to a Dispatch Campaign, allowing Agents to obtain more items as rewards for collecting +Theta tokens during the Daily Bounties, the Global Challenge and on-site events.

With a price of 30.800 CMU this upgrade is not the cheapest, and some Agents felt like the extra rewards offered for it do not reflect that price tag (aside from the fact that the highest reward tier is very hard to reach).

We want to know what the community thinks the rewards are actually worth in their own mind. To that end we invite everyone to fill out the following form in which you can assign each premium award the amount of CMU you would pay if you bought it in the store. Once a few days have gone by we will post the results in @IUENG_Extra.

Find the form here: https://forms.gle/W8L1yKbztsLD6RFU9

@IUENG

Niantic has revealed the details of the +Delta Anomaly Season!

As with +Theta there is one Anomaly medal in three tiers, obtainable by collecting tokens:
🥉3000 +Delta Tokens
🥈8000 +Delta Tokens
🥇15000 +Delta Tokens

The following list are all the ways you can earn these +Delta Tokens:

🔸+Delta Bounty Op
- Global
- 1 Jul 2025 (Tue) 00:00 local time to 19 Sep 2025 (Fri) 23:59 local time
- Complete a variety of Bounties, delivered via Dispatch.
- Complete the 5 Bounties in the Campaign to claim up to 3,000 +Delta Tokens.

🔸+Delta Global Campaign: Reso
- Global
- 19 Jul 2025 (Sat) 00:00 local time to 3 Aug 2025 (Sun) 23:59 local time
- Complete a variety of Bounties, delivered via Dispatch.
- Complete the 7 Bounties in the Campaign to claim up to 1,000 +Delta Tokens and restart the Campaign up to 4 additional times to earn a total of 5000 +Delta Tokens.

🔸+Delta Global Campaign: Field
- Global
- 30 Aug 2025 (Sat) 00:00 local time to 14 Sep 2025 (Sun) 23:59 local time
- Complete a variety of Bounties, delivered via Dispatch.
- Complete the 7 Bounties in the Campaign to claim up to 1,000 +Delta Tokens and restart the Campaign up to 4 additional times to earn a total of 5000 +Delta Tokens.

🔸Daily Bounties
- From 1 July to 19 September local time
- Complete your Daily Bounties to gain up to 60 +Delta Tokens each day.

🔸Anomaly Event
- Attend an XM Anomaly event in Melaka, Portland, Gothenburg, Quebec City, Denpasar or Cambridge to earn up to 5000 +Delta tokens

We will detail each event in separate posts later!
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In addition, the Ingress team will offer multiple medals and Premium Campaigns in the store. 5 new Premium Campaigns and at least 8 new badges, all for 30.800 CMU each, will be made available throughout the season.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusdelta

@IUENG

The Ingress Insights Podcast has released their 100th Episode!

This milestone is a big one and, as such, this episode features an interview with former Technical Artist Alex, telling the audience about working on Ingress and answering questions from the community.

The entire staff would like to wholeheartedly congratulate @PkmnTrainerJ on their 100th official episode and invite everyone to listen to the podcast on Spotify below.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/70ZZC3YK3UoiczJSgm1AeT

Audio clip attached totally chosen at random 😇

@IUENG

The +Delta Bounty Op Campaign has been revealed!

The easternmost countries of the world are starting to receive their +Delta Bounty Op Campaign as they roll into July 1st.
This Campaign will last until September 19th and will reward you with some additional +Delta Tokens as you complete your Daily Bounties!

5 Bounties are available, each rewarding 500 +Delta Tokens every 50 Daily Bounties completed. Completing all five bounties will reward Agents with an additional 500 +Delta Tokens for a total of 3000 Tokens.

This comes as an incentive to Agents wanting to help their faction, as 300 Season Points will be awarded to the factions at the end of the Bounty Op depending on the amount of Daily Bounties claimed during that time frame.

@IUENG

Heads up for Agents that want to dive head first into the Daily Bounties for +Delta!

Agents are reporting that the new Daily Bounties, which are supposed to award +Delta Tokens in regions in which it is already July, are still rewarding +Theta tokens instead. If you want to maximize your +Delta Token gain you should wait with claiming your Daily Bounties until the Ingress team fixes them.

We will update you once that happens on @IUENG_Extra!

(thanks to @Zordo for the heads up ❤️)

@IUENG

🔕 Issue is now fixed!

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/965

@IUENG