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The Ingress team has revealed details about the Sakura Blossom Festival 2026 event!

A total of 6 Dispatch Campaign will be available, each awarding a badge or giving wings for old ones:

- Sakura Blossom 2026 Campaign (free)
Rewards include up to 3,000 Orion Tokens and the new Sakura Blossom 2026 medal

- Sakura Branch 2026 Campaign (15,000 CMU)
Rewards the new Sakura Branch 2026 medal

- Sakura Tree 2026 Campaign (15,000 CMU)
Rewards the new Sakura Tree 2026 medal

- Sakura Blossom 2021 Redux Campaign (2,500 CMU)
Rewards the Sakura Blossom 2021 medal or awards you wings for it if already owned

- Sakura Tree 2021 Redux Campaign (2,500 CMU)
Rewards the Sakura Tree 2021 medal or awards you wings for it if already owned

- Sakura Branch 2021 Redux Campaign (2,500 CMU)
Rewards the Sakura Branch 2021 medal or awards you wings for it if already owned

In addition, it seems like the XM itself will shift its shape into cherry blossoms during the event period from 7 April 2026 at 18:00 UTC to 30 April 2026 at 18:00 UTC! 🌸

Source: https://ingress.com/en/news/2026-sakura

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We have received reports from Agents about a change in the process of opening a support ticket.

From now on, requests will only be submitted via support.ingress.com, the support platform based on Zendesk, replacing the Ingress Scanner as the method of submission.

The full switch to Zendesk brings some neat quality-of-life features, such as logging in with your email to see a list of all your past tickets made through the new system and the ability to open multiple tickets and to do so on a PC, as it is a browser-based application. The new system also features a verification system that does not allow users to open requests in the name of other Agents.

Finally, you will receive an automatic email when opening a new ticket, with its ID enclosed.

You can submit new support requests here: https://support.ingress.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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With the first regions of the world now hitting April 8th, the hunt (delayed by a day) for the Orion Tokens has begun! The Daily Bounties now include 10 Tokens per individual Bounty as well as 20 Tokens for each of the two daily Milestones. New for this season is that the Tokens from the Daily Bounties do not replace any existing rewards but are rather added on top of them.

As a recap, this is how many Tokens you will be able to earn globally, no matter your location:

Daily Bounties: 6,720 Tokens
(84 days * 80 Tokens per day)

Event Campaigns: 12,000 Tokens
(4 events * 3,000ΒΉ Tokens per event)

Global Op: 7,500 Tokens

Total globally available Tokens: 26,220 Tokens
(1,220 more than the needed 25,000 for the Platinum tier of the Orion Seasonal badge)

(ΒΉ: The team initially announced that the 4 Event Campaigns will only award 2,500 Tokens, which would not have been enough to reach the Platinum tier. This amount was quietly changed to 3,000 Tokens per Event a short while ago)
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In addition, you can also earn more tokens by attending one of these location-specific Events:

First Saturday: 7,500 Tokens
(3 IFS * 2,500 Tokens per Event)

XM Anomaly: 15,000 Tokens
(3 Anomaly Weekends * 5,000 Tokens per Weekend)

Attending an Ingress First Saturday is a great way to quickly and easily earn Tokens if you can make it to one! The 2,500 Tokens you gain by successfully checking in equate to 31 Days of fully completing all Daily Bounties and their Milestones! In addition, this season you have the chance to earn a passcode for the ITO EN Dispatch campaign which awards you the new ITO EN medal. Check ingressfs.com for nearby First Saturday events.

(All the calculations above assume that you perfectly complete each Event)

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The Sakura Blossom Festival 2026 Event has started and the Ingress scanner is filled with falling cherry blossom petals and a digital Cherry Tree in the main menu!

Starting now until 30 April 2026 at 18:00 UTC, this visual change is available in the Scanner to celebrate the time of cherry trees blossoming all around the world. In addition, up to 6 Campaigns can now be worked on to earn various medals, such as the 3 new Sakura Medals pictured above!

If you don't like this visual change you are able to return to the normal Scanner look by heading to the settings and unchecking the "SETTINGS_SEASONAL_EFFECTS" setting at the very bottom.

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πŸ“Š Anomaly Score Predictor - Now Open for Beta Testing!

Agents, a new tool built by one of the admins of @IUENG has just launched: a website where you can predict the scores of upcoming Anomaly events and compete on a global leaderboard!

The platform is currently open for the first round of events with the Orion Series. A contest based on the leaderboard results will be running here on @IUENG with loadouts at stake for the first three positions, so your predictions will actually matter. πŸ†
And no, before you ask: no betting with money is involved or planned.

πŸ”Έ How scoring works

There are four types of events to predict:

πŸ”Έ Series Winner - Pick which faction wins the overall series. 50 pts or nothing.
πŸ”Έ Anomalies - Predict the ENL/RES score split. Up to 120 pts, with a forgiving Β±20% tolerance window. A near-miss still scores, and a strong call can open a real gap over the competition.
πŸ”Έ Global Challenge / First Saturday - Same format, but the window shrinks to Β±5%. These events tend to finish very close to 50/50, so being precise is everything. Up to 72 pts.
πŸ”Έ Minor Events - (not available this series) Just pick the winning faction. Only 15 pts each, but usually there are many per series.

All feedback is welcome! Bugs, suggestions, missing features... shout them out in this telegram group!

πŸ‘‰ https://anomalypredictions.crlb.dev

Put your Ingress intuition to the test. Good luck out there, Agents! πŸ”΅πŸŸ’

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Niantic released further details regarding the XM Anomaly Events in the Orion Series!

Not much has changed since the +Gamma Series, here are the major differences:

Anomaly Season Points
Season Points will be divided differently across Challenges:
Battle Beacons: 100 points
Shards Battle: 100 points
Anomaly Uniques: 80 points
GORUCK Stealth and Urban Ops: 10 points each

Shards Battle Changes
πŸ”Έ The number of Shards per wave has been increased to 23, from the previous 13. 6 Target Portal per Faction will spawn, instead of 4.

πŸ”Έ Shards will now jump every 5 minutes, making a maximum of 4 jumps, demanifesting 28 minutes after they spawn
xx:02 - Shards and targets spawn
xx:10 - First jump
...
xx:25 - Fourth jump
xx:30 - Shards despawn

πŸ”Έ For the Shard Battle, the final score of the event will not be a Faction's best wave throughout the whole event, but will be the sum of
1) the Faction's best wave between wave 1 and 2
2) the Faction's best wave between wave 3 and 4
3) the Faction's best wave between wave 5 and 6
100 Series Points will be then divided based on these sums.

Onsite Medal
Finally, the Orion Onsite Medal will be awarded to agents by completing 4 out of the 5 bounties of the Anomaly Campaign, which itself does not award any Season Points anymore.

For all the details about Orion Anomaly Events, check the following link!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-orion-anomalysites

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Niantic has published additional details regarding the Orion Global Op, which will be played from April 24th @ 18:00 UTC to May 11th @ 18:00 UTC.

Global Op Medal
A three-tier medal will be awarded to Agents via a Campaign, based on the number of Orion Global Op Points they accumulate.
πŸ”Έ 1000 points
πŸ”Έ 2500 points
πŸ”Έ 6000 points

Orion Global Op Points
Agents can obtain Global Op Points in the following ways:

Destruction
Destroy any Link: 1 point
Destroy any Field: 3 points
Creation
Create a Unique Link: 2 points
Create a Unique Field with only 1 Link Owner: 4 points
Create a Unique Field with 2 Link Owners: 12 points to each Link Owner
Create a Unique Field with 3 Link Owners: 30 points to each Link Owner

Completing the Campaign bounties (medal levels) will award a total of up to 7.500 Orion Tokens.
The campaign can be repeated and doing so will unlock Stage 2, featuring more in-game items, but no additional Orion Tokens.

1000 Season Points will be distributed to the Factions based on the total of Orion Global Op Points accumulated by their Agents.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-orion-globalop

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Niantic unveiled the playboxes for the upcoming Orion Anomalies of May 16th 2026!

In Prague, Czechia, the portal count is a whopping 742, in a playbox measuring roughly 1.6km per side at its widest. In Sydney, Australia, we can see 363 portals in an area of roughly 2km x 1km.

As a reminder, if you are planning on participating in one of these events, make sure to register with your faction to ensure the best organization and strategic planning!

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πŸ”ΈEnlightened | πŸ”ΈResistance
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Sydney, Australia
πŸ”ΈEnlightened | πŸ”ΈResistance

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The Orion Season Add-On Medals have been unveiled by Niantic on their blog!

The Orion Supporter and C.O.R.E. Supporter Medals are currently available for purchase (the second one for C.O.R.E. subscribers only) for 30.800 CMU each, bundled with 5x VR Portal Shields or 5x Aegis Shields respectively.

Designs for the Akira Tsukasa 2026, Victor Kureze 2026 and Hank Johnson 2026 Badges have also been published, but as of now, they're not available on the in-game store yet. An update will be posted when available.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-orion

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Niantic Spatial has announced that the Peridot Mobile App will be winding down and servers shut off on August 31st, 2026.

The company explains the Mobile App is shutting down because the high technical demands and investment required to maintain its advanced AR features became unsustainable at scale. Additionally, the developers are shifting their priorities to focus on expanding the franchise into mixed reality and wearable AR platforms, meaning that while the App will be shut down, Peridot itself will live on on other platforms and applications.

The Ingress team has posted about this news on their own news blog and has announced an upcoming Peridot-themed campaign and Limited Edition medal. This free campaign and medal will soon be available to every Ingress Agent, new recruit, and Peridot Keeper. The exact details and the timeframe of the Campaign is not yet known.

And finally, written in the last bullet point of the Peridot FAQ, Niantic Spatial has reiterated that Ingress is not being impacted by this decision and will remain active as before.

Sources: https://playperidot.com/news/peridot-mobile-sunset, https://ingress.com/news/2026-peridot-mobile-sunset

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New Redux Campaigns are coming to Ingress, focusing on three of the Nemesis Global Challenges.

From May 1, 2026 18:00 UTC to June 1, 2026 18:00 UTC, three new Dispatch Campaigns with the focus on Myriad, Umbra and Courier can be completed, each focusing on a different gameplay element:

- Nemesis Redux: Myriad (free)
The focus of this Campaign is on Hacks and Unique Portal Hacks and will reward Orion Tokens, the "Myriad Hack Challenge" medal (or wings for it if you have already gotten Gold in July 2019) as well as various items.

- Nemesis Redux: Courier (15,000 CMU)
This Campaign is focused on destroying Resonators and will reward the "Courier Meet You Out There Challenge" medal (or wings for it if you have already gotten Gold in August 2021) as well as various items. No Orion Tokens will be available from this Campaign!

- Nemesis Redux: Umbra (15,000 CMU)
This Campaign is focused on deploying Resonators and will reward, the "Umbra Deploy Challenge" medal (or wings for it if you have already gotten Gold in December 2019) as well as various items. No Orion Tokens will be available from this Campaign!
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Some additional bonuses will be active in the scanner during the event month!

- Reduced Portal hack cooldown patterns
- Experimental tuning for XMP Bursters and Portal Shields deployed during the event window*
- 2X AP bonus on deploying a Resonator, destroying a Resonator, capping the 8th Resonator slot
- Bonus AP for Unique Portal Visits

*Portal Shields that were previously deployed before the event window are not affected

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-nemesisredux

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πŸ“Š The first Anomalies of the Orion Season are approaching fast!

In just a little more than two weeks, the Orion Anomaly Season will enter its busiest phase with the first XM Anomalies.

Do you think you can predict the score of the Series? Prove yourself on the Anomaly Score Predictor, powered by @IUENG!

Predictions for the bigger events, such as First Saturdays and the Orion Global Op, will close on May 1st, so this is your final call to register your predictions for all events in the Orion Season! Other events will remain open until 24 hours before their start.

πŸ† A contest based on the leaderboard results will be running here on @IUENG, with loadouts at stake for the top three positions!

As always, a dedicated Telegram group is available for any feedback regarding this app

πŸ‘‰ https://anomalypredictions.crlb.dev

⚠ Predictions are not made public, be it during the prediction phase or after the results are available! We do not want to undermine the hard work the organisers and Agents of each event are putting into it by potentially dampening motivation due to "unfavourable" predictions. The data is only visible to admins and will only be used for debugging, if at all.

And obviously, no money or betting is involved in any way. We just want to see who has the best prediction skills regarding Ingress events πŸ’™πŸ’š


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Niantic unveiled the playboxes for the upcoming Orion Anomalies of May 30th 2026!

In Kure City, Japan, the huge playbox count a grand total of 880 portals, spanning almost 10km by 4km. Curiously, the playbox is split, due to a gap without many portals in the middle.
In Jersey City, NJ, USA, we can see 349 portals in an area of roughly 1.5km x 1.5km (almost a mile by a mile).

As a reminder, if you are planning on participating in one of these events, make sure to register with your faction to ensure the best organization and strategic planning!

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Kure, Japan
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Jersey City, NJ, USA
πŸ”ΈEnlightened | πŸ”ΈResistance

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Niantic unveiled further details for the upcoming Mother's Day 2026 Event!

This event will be active from May 8th @ 18:00 UTC to May 18th @ 18:00 UTC.

During the event's timeframe, Agents will be able to activate 13 Kinetic Capsules in parallel instead of 7.

Additionally, a premium Campaign will be available in the in-game store for 15.000 CMU: completing its bounties will award the β€œThe Acolyte - Mother’s Day 2026” Badge.

Finally, to celebrate this event, some exclusive merch themed after The Acolyte is available at the Ingress Store.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-mothersday

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⚠️ The GORUCK events in Prague, Sydney and Jersey City have been cancelled

We are sad to report that, due to low participant numbers, GORUCK cancelled the Events related to the Orion Anomaly in Prague, Sydney and Jersey City.
GORUCK announced this to the registered participants with an email stating that a full refund will be issued to the payment method selected for purchase.

The Anomaly rules state the following:
In the event of event/component cancellations, no Season Points will be awarded, i.e. the event/component will have no impact on the Season results.

Source: Prague ORGA

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πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί Niantic Spatial published its DSA Transparency Report for Ingress covering year 2025.

The Digital Services Act (DSA) is an EU regulation that requires online platforms operating in the European Union to publicly report on their content moderation activity. Niantic Spatial, as an operator of services available in the EU, is obligated to publish this data annually. The figures below cover EU-based accounts only.

πŸ‘₯ According to the report, in the EU there are 58.600 active monthly users.

Account actions
A total of 5,720 accounts were actioned during 2025:
🚫 4,780 permanent bans
βŒ›οΈ 622 temporary suspensions
❔ 318 actions in other categories

Appeals
βš–οΈ 312 ban appeals were submitted over the year
βœ… All 312 were upheld by Niantic
πŸ•” Average response time: 1 day and 18 hours

To reiterate: this data covers EU-based accounts only.

Spatial received 62 DSA notices falling under the Cyber Bullying and Intimidation category. Of those, action was taken on 5 notices, on the basis of legal requirements and Terms of Service violations.

The report confirms that Ingress uses no automated moderation systems. All content moderation is carried out exclusively by trained human moderators.

Source: https://www.nianticspatial.com/dsa-transparency

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Niantic announced an extension on the deadline for the Orion Global Op.

The new end time is now May 12th @ 18:00 UTC.
This extension was conceded due to "an issue this morning that caused Orion Global Op Points to stop recording" for about 45 minutes from 16:00 to 16:45 UTC. Points are being awarded since after this 45-minute-window.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/1148

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