Seen July 15th, 2016
Posted July 15th, 2016
1 posts
6.8 Years
All pokemon are three feet away and while they may move in the nearby menu, the feet will not go down.

Please someone tell me they have an answer to this problem. My game worked fine last night and I woke up this morning and everything was three feet away. I didn't think anything of it but an hour went by and nothing came close. Usually, there are spawns at least every half hour in my driveway or the bottom of my neighbor's driveway. I decided to go to my neighbor's driveway and the vulpix that was three feet away but first in the nearby menu spawned. Even if I return to that spot every so often, I can't track other pokemon that interest me in the area. I tried my account on a different device and encountered the same problem. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Regeneration

meow

Male
Somewhere I Belong
Seen December 15th, 2016
Posted July 23rd, 2016
1,421 posts
12.5 Years
Yeah, mine's been doing the same. Hopefully it gets fixed soon. Tbh I'd prefer it if they replaced the feet with a number of metres...
Second that! Or at least let us know the direction in which to go!

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
I have this happening. I spent 30 minutes trying to find a Dratini on my radar and all the Pokemon there were 3 footprints and the only things that actually popped up on the map were ones that my radar hadn't even shown.

But that's not as bad as another thing, where I'm tracking something and it gets to 2 or even 1 footstep away and then the whole radar refreshes and a new batch of Pokemon are there and all 3 footprints away.

Taemin

MOVE

he / they
USA
Seen January 6th, 2023
Posted December 9th, 2022
11,196 posts
17.8 Years
Same with mine today, aside from using incense for a few minutes. In general, I found that turning off LTE helps the game run smoother and loads my map better, but the three footprints thing just started happening today. Thought it was just my game being weird, but hopefully they release another update and fix it soon. x_x


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Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
9,551 posts
11.7 Years
The same thing has been happening for the whole of today for both me and my boyfriend when we went out searching together - it's really annoying! I'm assuming it's a server issue if everyone's experiencing it but hopefully it's fixed soon.
Non-binary
Seen July 16th, 2016
Posted July 16th, 2016
125 posts
6.9 Years
Well yesterday was a total disaster with me and Pokemon Go. Not only did they have the 3 steps glitch which really wasn't a big thing, but every time I went on which was quite often all that was around was Rattatata, Pidgeys, and Eevees. This went on all day. Now today I get up and plan my Saturday to catch a few new Pokemon and the damn app won't even load. If this keeps up for much longer it will be see ya to the Pokemon Go App.

Hiidoran

ohey

Age 32
Male
Indiana
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted February 4th, 2022
6,203 posts
17.6 Years
I'm having the same issue with my app lately. :\

I honestly don't find it as bad as some of the other glitches, but I understand everyone's frustration with it. Luckily I've already found just about all the Pokémon in my immediate area, so I don't have to track much unless I'm on an adventure somewhere. It feels like the app is getting somewhat better with the other issues though, so I have faith they'll quickly remedy this issue too.

Taemin

MOVE

he / they
USA
Seen January 6th, 2023
Posted December 9th, 2022
11,196 posts
17.8 Years
It's still going, but I have found that regardless of the three footsteps, you still get plenty of them that pop up around you when you go for walks, and also since this glitch has started I've run into Pokemon that I hadn't seen yet. Meowth, Pikachu, Abra, and Scyther have never been in my area until now. Also incense still works pretty well.

It's annoying when you can't track a specific mon down, but if you're just out hunting for the fun of it, and don't care what you come across, it's not that bad.


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It's an area that no one else can fill
The night's never gonna be the same.

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Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
I heard that if you rotate the view in a circe while having a pokemon selected on your nearby (when it shows only the 1 pokemon not all of em) when you are pointed in the right direction it will flash an outline of green, i think this is how you find what direction the specific pokemon is
I've heard similar things from other people. When I get a chance I'm going to try this out and see if it pans out. I would really like for this to work because it would save a lot of time running in circles.

Edit: tried this out this morning and got a Squirtle right away. Haven't really had the chance to try it more, but it seems like a useful tactic.
Non-binary
Seen July 23rd, 2016
Posted July 22nd, 2016
315 posts
6.8 Years
The whole 3 steps away for everything makes things a bit confusing for me. If I am out trying to caught a few Pokemon and a group pops up as nearby and one is one I have yet to catch and they all say 3 steps away I have no idea how far I need to go to try and catch that one. I do hope they get that fixed soon.

Chuck Palahniuk

ten question marks

Age 24
Male
The Moon
Seen August 18th, 2016
Posted July 19th, 2016
35 posts
6.9 Years
I honestly think it's something that's going to be fixed with the next big update. Hopefully, they'll go back to showing how many meters away Pokemon are instead of using the vague step system.
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Australia
Seen August 28th, 2020
Posted February 13th, 2020
483 posts
12.5 Years
The 3 footprint thing is a bug, but its a bit game breaking as tracking is now pretty much impossible, even though it was ridiculously hard before this.

But I'm also voting for distance rather than steps, or even just make them with a N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW, so i know which way to walk. I'm sick of hatching 5km eggs and still not finding the pokemon im tracking
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Blathering Fool

Male
Seen November 7th, 2020
Posted June 12th, 2019
992 posts
11.7 Years
I feel like everyone probably knows about this bug by now. It's been driving me nuts, like others have said, it takes an incredibly hard to understand tracking system and makes it downright impossible to use. I hope it gets dealt with relatively soon because right now all I can do is aimlessly wander until I randomly run into something.
I would much rather prefer a tracking system that uses actual increments of distance instead of this annoying foot print method (which I heard was a feature in the beta).
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Age 33
Male
Seen 3 Weeks Ago
Posted 3 Weeks Ago
1,567 posts
9.8 Years
All of my nearby Pokemon are 3 footprints away now, and Pokemon will pop up who are not even on the nearby window at all. Or Pokmon will appear who are at the bottom of the nearby map.



I'm still trying to figure out what the point of the compass is, is it always pointing north? Because today I was facing one way, my character was facing the opposite way and the compass was facing sideways.

I think I'm joining the bandwagon on the foorptints need to go. They need to add a number or an arrow pointing in the direction because right now if a pokemon appears on the nearby map it could be a mile away in any direction and I'm not wandering around at night all over the city looking for a Snorlax.
Male
Finland
Seen July 24th, 2020
Posted August 8th, 2016
47 posts
6.8 Years
Well this has been going on all the time I've had the app... It's so frustrating to see a pokemon you want to catch on your nearby pokemons list (especially if you don't have it yet!) then just walking around the place you are and hoping you will run into the pokemon... I have pretty much played the game by just walking from point A to B and catching the pokemon that I'll encounter on the way. Today I missed Schyter and Hitmonchan already...

The meter system or at least a direction where to go would be so nice. I don't think it would make the game too easy as I'm struggling to find anything but pidgeys, rattatas and weedles... they could make more common pokemon to appear more often like even caterpie or something.

Squirrel

Age 28
Male
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted July 10th, 2021
9,551 posts
11.7 Years
It's a bug right now unfortunately, but hopefully it'll be fixed with the next patch. Makes it stupidly hard to track down anything you actually want. All you can really do is rely on their position in the nearby list changing but I find that very inaccurate a lot of the time.
Male
Indiana, U.S.
Seen September 20th, 2016
Posted September 11th, 2016
304 posts
6.9 Years
It's honestly a bit disappointing that they haven't addressed this yet. I haven't even heard of them ACKNOWLEDGING it.

I know they're crazy, ridiculously, absurdly flooded busy right now, but this is a pretty big issue...
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