If your battery is showing signs of premature capacity loss (or if you have already had to replace it), be sure to include that information in both reports.Įdit - I see that you already saw this, OP, but will leave it in case anyone else hadn't seen it. They obviously know about it by now, but they have been ignoring complaints about it for nearly a year. If enough people do this, Niantic might get a warning from Google or Apple, which (since those are their primary sales channels) would be harder for them to ignore than it is for them to ignore us. Apple's App Store may have a similar mechanism for reporting abusive apps. Google Play has a link specifically for this sort of thing at the bottom of their Pokémon Go page: Flag as inappropriate: Harmful to device or data. This issue has been repeatedly raised here for almost a year, and Niantic has been unresponsive. (Comparison: I can run 3D-rendered GPS navigation apps or games while continuously streaming data and playing music in the background all day long, and it doesn't heat up my phone like PoGo does.) If they wanted to fix the battery abuse, they most certainly could. The underlying problem is not a technical one, but rather a policy / decision-making issue at Niantic. A power bank is a technical workaround for one of those, but it's not truly a fix.

This app is alarmingly hard on both short-term and long-term battery life. I don't know the app reporting procedure for iOS / App Store perhaps someone who does know can share that info in a comment. For Android: Near the bottom of the Pokémon Go page in the Play Store: Flag as inappropriate: Harmful to device or data. How much will it cost to have your battery replaced 2-3 times as often as you normally would? How about your whole phone?Īlso consider reporting the app as abusive to hardware. Until Niantic fixes their code, it's going to keep costing us, through greatly reduced hardware life. Various other heat-related problems have been reported as well.Ī few users here have said that it doesn't heat up their phone or drain their battery quickly, but that is a vanishingly small minority. Some of us have had their batteries killed entirely. Lots of us have already noticed battery capacity loss. (I can run 3D-rendered GPS navigation apps or games while continuously streaming data and playing music in the background all day long, and it doesn't heat up my phone like PoGo does.) The fact is that this app runs your CPU and battery excessively hard and hot, and it really doesn't need to. Only real solution: Hound Niantic until they fix their hardware-abusing app.

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