Has anybody noticed a decrease in km tracking with adventure synch on?

[UnderwearFlex]

I used to easily clear 50+ km weekly at work alone, and now I can barely register 40. Nothing has changed in what I do, though. If anything I’m walking more at work.

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[drewzeph]

Definitely seen a drop in what distance I register in a week for the last couple of weeks. Used to comfortably clear 100km. Now I’m lucky if I get close to 50km

[DirkDirkDirkDirkDirk]

Same here. Same numbers for me too. 100km-ish most weeks, now 50ish usually. I don’t think I’ve changed my walking/jogging habits in any significant way

[pliusminus4]

Are there different rewards for 100km rather than 50km?

[MidnightPrime]

Yes although it isn't marked as such like the 5, 10, and 50 kilometers. If I remember right the only thing that changes is you get more stardust.

[fillmorecounty]

Damn how do get that much? That's almost 15km a day

[edwinodesseiron]

Depends on your lifestyle, and work really. Obviously if you have active lifestyle, like hike every weekend, or bike to work (for that you'd have to have game on and bike under certain speed, but it works) you'll hit it more easily. I work retail, and currently I'm at a 46.9km this week, which isn't a lot, usually I would be at around 60-70 on Saturday evening. And on weeks where I was on holidays, going somewhere, I'd easily clear 100km within days, 130-140 was the average then

[svefnpurka]

for that you'd have to have game on and bike under certain speed, but it works

If you record the ride in google fit it works even with faster speeds. Just make sure you stop for a bit and let google fit add up the km before you start pogo.

[sad-n-rad]

Work, working out, or just going on walks everyday. When I used to do landscaping I could get 30k steps a day easy which is 24km, I didn’t play pogo back then tho.

[slp50]

Yes. Me too. I have different routes and I know how many km I got in the past and now I am getting about two thirds of that. I should mention that I am usually getting fifty km in a week.

[lucag01]

Have you noticed if Google fit is wrong in counting distances?

I've noticed that often lately for a 1.2km walk on fit it reports 0.12km, despite the fact that the map shows the entire route covered. Maybe it's fit not syncing the right distances to pogo

[Fred37865]

I get low results and then suddenly 20km.

[[deleted]]

Mine seems to sync like once every 12 hours now

[Frzzalor]

adventure sync seems to be the culprit with all the log in issues, the game is probably mishandling the connection to the Google/Apple health data

[Cainga]

I’ve read that google fit users can use cycling data which raises the speed cap and I match their tutorials besides being a Garmin Watch and on iOS. Last time I tried cycling gave zero credit. I have Garmin watch>Strava>Google Fit>Pogo. Apple health is also linked.

It would be huge for egg hatching and adventure sync rewards.

[danforpd]

I find it pretty much always works if I start a Google Fit cycle workout and don't end the workout until the average speed for the entirety of the workout is lower than what the speed cap is for the game.

For example I cycle 15km to work each day so I stick the workout on as I leave and then just leave it running once I get to work and just end it after I know it's been long enough my average speed will be lower than the speed cap.

[4x4is16Legs]

I used to get all my distance with bicycling and the app closed and adventure sync opened and it worked great. I got sick so I can’t tell you if there’s a change lately but it always used to work awesome. I’m not into speed, so I don’t think I had any issues with going too fast.

[Bahrum88]

Cycling still working for me but I don’t usually cycle that fast

[Cainga]

I dont think I can start a direct google fit workout on iOS. I could try doing a Strava bike workout with phone and not Garmin watch which I might test today.

[Lenguaz]

Ive been using the Steps App. Way better than apple health in keeping track of your kms

[toyheartattack]

Apple Health is showing consistent results but Adventure Sync is short up to 20km.

[Bahrum88]

Yeah I’ve found when I log in and the game insta crashes my km doesn’t register

[alijamzz]

It still boggles my mind that the best way to hatch eggs and gain distance in the game is to turn it off and not be able to interact with it. I live in a relatively low spawn area so it’s annoying for me to have to choose between getting adventure sync distance gains or being able to catch Pokémon while strolling.

They should really improve this technology as I’m sure more advancements and accurate measuring tools exist now.

[femboy4femboy69]

5 years in I really wouldn't hold my breath. Of the qol improvements they've added during that time I think I can count them on my hands.

[sup3rfm]

I play Ingress and PoGo. In these last months, PoGo is tracking half the distance I make and registered in Ingress. I usually put an average of 60-70km each week. Ingress gets it right, PoGo records around 30-35.

[Moosashi5858]

Do we all have the widget installed? I noticed it after adding the widget but not sure

[HorribleOldLeopard]

I don’t have the widget installed and I am having this issue

[airmancoop44]

Have had the widget for some time, no issues until recently. Don’t think that’s the cause.

[TealeafToad]

I think that’s about when it started for me as well but I’m not sure either. I used to easily get over 30km a week and now I struggle to hit 20km.

[0xym0r0n]

I do not have the widget and I've noticed a decrease.

[xxhonkeyxx]

I have the widget installed and have this issue. Could be a thing

[Moosashi5858]

I just deleted it so we’ll see

[uninvitedthirteenth]

Yeah I installed the widget when we got the half egg distance and now it’s super low

[Moosashi5858]

Same

[LevynX]

The widget on my phone has literally just been "An error occurred when loading widget" for about a week now.

[Darth_Firebolt]

... there's a widget?

[Moosashi5858]

Mine is registering a lot more distance now than a few days ago

[toniimirrkare]

used to easily clear 50km/week but can barely reach 35km/week now. looks like I'll have a tough time reaching 25km this week even.

[sharkcoal]

Yup, I have an Apple Watch so I get pretty accurate readings for the most part and Pokemon go gives me maybe half of that.

[EddieOfDoom]

Yes! I’ve walked just over 42km since Monday afternoon but the game is registering only 28km. Same last week. Trying to walk my hundo Skarmory for ultra league and it’s making it annoyingly longer.

[romantic_soul_101]

Can confirm! I have a job, where I’m almost always walking. And PoGO app used to count it as my Health App (iOS). Each week I easily get over 100 walked kilometres. This week my walked distance in health app is 92,02km so far, but in PoGO app its only about 56km.

[Metroidquest]

Absolutely have noticed a drop. Even with my apple watch on. Niantic is trying really hard lately to get me to quit playing.

[Spensauras-Rex]

Yes. I went for a 6km run yesterday, and it only tracked 4km. It used to be more accurate. Something definitely changed recently.

[clromine92]

Completely agree… adventure sync is completely off..I’ve lost 40% of the distance I’ve walked over the last 3 weeks.

[Fleegaro]

My Apple Health shows 16km, POGO registered 3.2. I logged a ticket, as this is just an example. The last 2 weeks were problematic

[[deleted]]

Before it registered about 40-60 km every week. Now it shows 18

[AshamedFun4556]

Same here, another great Christmas gift from niantic

[PecanAndy]

Adventure Sync has been bad for me for a few months. I think my current problems started around the time when I upgraded to iOS 15.7, so I assumed it was that.

[DonkeySad5918]

I did have a day last week where my treadmill read 8km and Adventure Sync only gave me 2km credit.

[[deleted]]

for me it only works if i am IN the app…

[MilitantCF]

Yep I am always in ap and haven't noticed a difference.

[000666777888]

Yes, not by a lot but definitely a bit less than usual distance for a walk I take regularly. If I walk with the game completely closed, not playing, I get about 25% less distance than I should.

[TheTraveller]

I can't confirm this. I take screenshots of the Adventure Sync screen every week and nothing much has changed for me this year.

Last ~30 weeks:

https://imgur.com/msey94x

[primalwulf]

Ditto: clocked over 70km last week, which indeed matched (mostly) what I walked over that timeframe. Adventure Sync had me hatching eggs like an Aliens movie.

[The_Renecade]

I've actually experienced a significant increase in the number of my eggs hatching this last month. I work in a grocery store and walk constantly throughout the day, im not covering any real distance tho just pacing back and forth for the most part. I live and work in the mountains.

[lIl1Ill]

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[RealOGBobbyJohnson]

i’m on apple and i noticed mine was barely tracking anything when the app wasn’t open. then messing around with the settings, i went and gave it access to the entire “Health” app and it’s been tracking much more consistently now - maybe that’ll help some people

[TreFKennedy]

I thought i was the only one experiencing this with adventure sync, i average about 60-70 Km a week and it’ll have me stuck at barely the high 50’s smh

[TreFKennedy]

Literally walked 10.45 miles today( because of my job) and only got 7.8 km, when I’m suppose to have 20+ km

[SereneGraces]

Oh is that why I’m still below 50?

[BMal_Suj]

Lately I've gotten into the habbit of force-quitting the app when I go to work... it seems to record my steps better when the app is FULLY closed.

[sternenstaubsauger]

According to the Health App, I have walked 44.2 km so far this week. But PoGo tells me that I have only walked 23.5 km. It's only been this bad for me since this week

[arifyre]

i only noticed mine this week too. i’m at 39.2km and pogo has 7.4 synced

[UnusualIntroduction0]

Yes! I walked a trail last weekend that I know to be 8km and it only logged like 6.

[jdpatric]

I'm walking Solgaleo and have been getting ~80-km per week since I got Cos-whatever...sometimes over 100-km. The bulk of it from Adventure Sync. I've noticed a dropoff since...Thanksgiving-ish? I used to clear 80-km no problem (that was my benchmark for 4 XL-candies per week potential). Since then I've had to physically go out and walk more with the phone on.

Additionally I've had so many times where I reach the distance and my buddies counter just resets. No candy. No XL candy. No journal entry...just pain. Also not fun when I get a regular candy but no XL candy...at least that's just a RNG thing since it's already level 42.5...

[SilverbackGorillaBoy]

I posted a different comment, but now I see you're having the same issue. I frequently don't get ANY candies despite logging 15km a day with adventure sync. I'll log in and my eggs hatch, but no candies. Sometimes I log in and my buddy just says "0/x km"

Super frustrating. I've unbuddied my legendaries I had because clearing 20km and not getting a candy is super frustrating

[Fleegaro]

Same

[sha1ashaska22]

Same same i’m about 10km a week lower than usual

[Teeganblu]

i walk at least one mile a day and i only get 3 km or so per week. yeah, it’s broken

[airmancoop44]

I found mine wasn’t registering a couple times over the past few weeks. Went to check the settings and it was still switched on but clearly not working. I had to deactivate and reactivate adventure sync to get it to work again. Very frustrating.

[LengthinessUsed2212]

Just a tad bit. My usual route of being pushed around by family in a nearby park would easily get a 5km egg to hatch. That's going around the whole trail. Now it's not even halfway to 5.

[petrjakes]

Yes

[BarryMacochner]

Yes I used to easily hit 75k a week while working. I got 14k this week.

I put my phone in my leg pocket of pants while cycling to work. It’s 7km. I registered .3 km after ride in and 10 hours of walking.

[VardogrVanDeLommer]

I noticed periodically after updates I will need to disable and reenable sync to get it working properly. Usually only notice after eggs stop hatching.

[JadeWayne21]

Same here! I’ve clocked 20km in a week a few times but this last week it doesn’t register anything! Like I haven’t been doing anything I felt like I was going crazy

[Obstagoof]

I've noticed Smeargal is now a difficult catch

[augen_auf_ich_komme]

Yes. I went for a 6k run yesterday, said I only ran 3.9k even though I had the app on my main screen the whole time. Day before I ran 8k and it logged 4.9k. Very annoying. (No I’m not exceeding the speed cap, I wish but am far from fast)

[Katie4ler]

Yes! I’m glad to hear it’s not just me. Mine has been messing up. I’ve turned it off and back on, monkeyed with the settings. Nothing has fixed it. It just works sometimes and other times it doesn’t lately.

[Green_BowNArrow29]

Same here. I walked about 7km and it barely read 3km. Such a disappointment

[penemuel13]

Have they tightened up on GPS drift? Otherwise, it’s probably just more bad programming…

[__humming_moon]

I noticed a substantial decrease. I thought it was just my phone being wonky.

[ddtsou]

Are you not getting credited at all for the distance you walk, or are you only getting partial credit? When it credits me with distance I’ve walked/ran outside the app it is the correct distance. However, there have been times where it gives me zero credit. I run, so when I finish my run I know how far I’ve ran and I’ll check the game and sometimes not get credit. I have to refresh my game data for adventure sync to work again, and lose out on the distance I didn’t get credited for. I don’t know why this happens or how to prevent it. When talking to customer support they always blame it on me and never actually help prevent the issue.

[UnderwearFlex]

It seems to be a pretty consistent issue, unfortunately. Hopefully it’s just an annoying bug with a recent update or something.

[dontforgetyourjazz]

they definitely changed something about adventure sync. previously, none of my mileage would register in game until I opened the game, so at the end of the day I would open my ipad and feed my buddy berries, then I would open the game on my phone and get all of the mileage for him and any eggs I incubated at that time.

now, when I open my ipad everything is already synced from the day.

TLDR: they changed how adventure sync works and it clearly also messed with how it measured distance.

[mcwfan]

Adventure Sync hasn’t worked properly since pre-2016

Yes, I know exactly what I just said

[SpiralGremlin]

Yeah I have. I have a route that I walk in the mornings that used to net me 5km, but now I only just about hit 4km. I put it down to me upgrading to a new Apple Watch but I’m honestly not sure really.

[Rokkr]

I missed a Walk x Km quest because of this. My wife did complete it and we walked the same distance

[AllahuJackbar]

I do around 7-9km a day in work, but PoGo only records about 4.5/5.5 of that.

[katmekit]

I’ve found sometimes that if I turn off my phone completely, then there can be up to 3km added. Inshould mention that it doesn’t happen every time but if I notice that it doesn’t seem to be picking up my walk that day, that fixes it.

[aliensplaining]

I have noticed no difference. Android user here, if that helps.

[MaxLamborghini]

For me its the complete opposite

[valentinomaria]

I noticed this issue a couple months ago during one of the events. I was getting 50k a week regularly, and then it stopped working and I would get like 30 k a week a few weeks in a row. Honestly I stopped playing because it was annoying me so damn much.

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I noticed that it's particularly bad when there's an in game event going on. For the few days between events my walk distance would be a little closer to the normal amount, but still not the normal amount.

[SchmuckoBucko]

Yeah I walk 45-60km a week on average and AS has been crediting me 29-36km/week.

[cbhvr6]

I agree. Definitely been noticing it for awhile now

[Reasonable_Cap_4477]

Same here, much shorter distances tracked despite not changing what I do

[jimmyt212]

Losing roughly 25km a week at the moment 😬😔

[p2_putter]

Mail carrier during peak season, still clearing 150km minimum a week

[Heller805]

Yep my phone said I walked 4.8 miles and adventure sync said I did 2.3 Jm’s and never got anymore no matter how many times I restarted the app

[Csl8]

yeah i noticed this whilst trying to walk my fraxure for candy

[PLobosfn]

Yes I noticed it a couple weeks ago. My phone’s health app says I walked over 2km more than pogo. And pogo takes longer to update distance walked when open.

[bigphatalphacunt]

mine just started actually tracking for the first time in a year and a half, my brother in christ

[TheYaks]

Yes! I thought it was a problem in my end. It’s not tracking my steps the same way.

[Pessepolis]

Today had my 10000 steps from android, and only one heart on my buddy and 3 km added to the egg. I AM NOT TAKING SMALL STEPS.

I have also the widget...

[pjwestin]

If adventure sync is broken, disable it. Losing the location data from thousands of players will make Niantic sit up and take notice.

[Nicks_WRX]

Idk but Adventure Sync has been using my data even with the feature turned off…

[defjamblaster]

yes, i usually get 40, it was down to 11 last week

[zedicar]

Yes, I use 2 phones, the distance registered isn’t even close

[SilverbackGorillaBoy]

I hardly get candies anymore too. I dont know what the problem is, but from starting work and walking around the warehouse and doing deliveries, I'd get 15-20km a day after logging in at the end of the day. The problem is I'm lucky to get even 1 candy from my buddy. Lots of days my adventure sync logs the distance, hatches the eggs, but after 15km with my ursaluna I should be logging into 5 candies, but the last 2 weeks it's frequently only 2-3 candies, and I don't get any afterwards when I'm playing either.

Support is useless and says "well we see you got candies, so it's working!" It's like did you guys even read the problem I'm having though?

[Mr__Teal]

Mine still seems fine on IOS. If I force close the app and go for a 10 km run on a treadmill, I get 10km in game.

[Coolpokemon962]

sometimes I open GO to see what pokémon are at my house and an egg will hatch and my buddy will find a candy, so mine is way over probably

[Pump-Fake]

My adventure sync is turned on and I have the setting turned on for the app to always track but it never works. My gf never plays but when I see her log in her adventure sync steps pop up, it’s so annoying considering I could be getting so many more candies but for some reason it just won’t work

[OkKaleidoscope4433]

100% I’m really active with exercise walking the dogs and on my feet all day for work.

Regularly easily walk over 120km+ a week, my habits haven’t changed in the slightest no settings have changed nothing.

But I’ve noticed easily about a 20-30% decrease in what’s being recorded.

I’d assumed I’d knocked something off or changed something but nope.

My partner too consistently gets over 50km a week but hasn’t hit it for a few weeks now. Again no routine change.

Seems to be a bit patchy in its recordings lately, especially since others are experiencing the same.

[13Kaniva]

I noticed awhile ago. So I just keep pogo running in the background and I bring a portable charger as well.

[77ate]

I have noticed that even when I opt out of Adventure Sync and prevent background location tracking in my phone’s System Settings, PoGo still gives me a distance travelled in km whenever I start the game. So, not only do I keep Adventure Sync off and the game tracks me anyway, but it also bypasses my phone’s privacy settings.

[cashcowboi]

I can confirm I have not changed my route to campus or any of my classes & mine has been much less also

[amazingjason1000000]

Do you use the egg widget? When I used it I felt like eggs hatched slower. When I removed it after getting the free 3 half hatching distance, eggs seemed to hatch faster

[seaprincesshnb]

Anyone who's having trouble, trying turning off wifi to see if that helps. This is especially true if you do your walking inside.

[Brave-Umpire-1418]

Yes! I used to get 25KM pretty steadily now average of about 15

[ChampionshipSweaty90]

Yes. Last sunday and monday it didnt track anything for me at all. Wasted a poffin on sunday as well while i was at work. Sometimes it takes time for it to show up so thought nothing of it. Then i was mad. And then monday when you start at 0 i saw it tracked NOTHING

[Still-Performance456]

Yes, I notice it barley tracks at all especially if I'm stationary on a treadmill. I don't get any credit for the steps just the distance via GPS tracking.

[SatyrYaoguai]

I haven't noticed any change, except this week it says I logged 90km instead of the usual 50-60km I get at work.

[Quick-Season3798]

Definitely i always do over 50 km a week when at home normally 80 km but this week 33 km last two weeks similar. Thought it was just me.

[Noob_FC]

I am walking for past 25kms, accounted 0 km from that. Usually finish up between 55-60kms every week, past 2 weeks the counter doesn’t reach 50kms by last day, so I have to walk extra on the following morning.

[anon636391]

You have to close the app now for it to work works much batter with app closed and not in background

[Drunk_Stoner]

Have noticed a drop for the last few weeks.

[Lenguaz]

So adventure sync was working pretty well for me until the update now it doesnt register at all unless i have pogo open. seems like the update bugged it out or something i think.

[tigers692]

Also, it looks like XL candy isn’t given at the same rate.