Niantic announced the cities which will host an Ingress Mission Day Events in Q2 2026!

🇲🇾 Shah Alam, Malaysia — April 25th
🇨🇴 San Andres, Colombia — May 2nd
🇩🇪 Schwerin, Germany — May 2nd
🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia — May 17th [Anomaly MD]
🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia — May 17th [Anomaly MD]
🇯🇵 Kure City, Japan — May 31st [Anomaly MD]
🇺🇸 Jersey City, USA — May 31st [Anomaly MD]
🇨🇳 Foshan, China — June 7th
🇫🇮 Espoo, Finland — June 7th
🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland — June 21st [Anomaly MD]
🇵🇪 Lima, Peru — June 21st [Anomaly MD]

If you would like to apply for a Mission Day in your city for the rest of 2026, applications are still open!
Q3 Deadline: 17th April, 2026
Q4 Deadline: 17th July, 2026

Application Form for 2026: https://tinyurl.com/IngressMDApplicationForm2026

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-q2-md

@IUENG

The Lightship Developer Platform is being shut down and migrated to Scaniverse (Enterprise). With it, it is now no longer possible to manually activate VPS for a Portal.

As part of the migration to Scaniverse (Enterprise), Niantic Spatial has decided to decommission the Geospatial Browser that developers have used to find public POIs and activate VPS for them. Going forward, Scaniverse (Enterprise) will focus on private VPS sites only and will not allow users to find and use public POIs in their projects. The platform will be completely separate and POIs or Scans created for it will not affect any other product.

Ingress uses these VPS activates POIs as a marker for Portals that can be Overclocked, and as such a number of Agents have also been using the Geospatial Browser so that they can activate Overclock on Portals. This is no longer possible as the Geospatial Browser went into read-only mode today. As such, there is currently no longer a reliable way to (re-)activate a Portal with Overclock. According to the Ingress team, Portals may be able to activate themselves if they receive enough Scans, however it is unknown if this behavior will be carried over with the migration.

ℹ️ You will likely still be able to use Overclock on Portals that have already been activated.

Niantic Spatial has announced in their FAQ for the migration that they "will be following up with more news about Public Maps". It remains to be seen if this will allow users to manually request a VPS activation in the future.

Note that Scaniverse (Enterprise) is separate to the Scaniverse app that you can currently download and use on your phone. These two do not share any data with each other either.

Source: https://www.nianticspatial.com/faq/scaniverse-lightship-migration

@IUENG

A year (and almost two months, but who is counting) has passed since we last asked you for feedback about IUENG. Now we are asking you once again to fill out a short form to help us run the channel, gauge interest in potential new posts and collect feedback on how we currently run the channel!

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🍞 [This is a toast notification!] 🍞

To celebrate the historical Toast Day, Niantic has prepared two campaigns, one paid and one free.

From February 26th @ 18:00 UTC to March 9th at 18:00 UTC, the free Toast Day 2026 Campaign and the paid Toast Day Redux Campaign (15.000 CMU), will be available for Agents to purchase and complete.

The Toast Day 2022 Medal (or wings for Agents who already own it) will be awarded to agents completing the Redux Campaign. Toast Beacons are the reward for completing the free Campaign.

During the celebration window, a new Kinetic Program will be available: 8 L1 Resonators can be transformed into 2 Toast Beacons.

Finally, a limited number of Toast plushies are still available at Ingress' Shopify!
Big Toastie
Mini Toastie

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

@IUENG

The +Gamma Global Op concluded yesterday, with a provisional result marked on the Scanner app.

The score is
ENL 48.9 - 51.1 RES
Which means that the split of Season Points between the Factions would be:
ENL 489 - 511 RES

Edit: Niantic confirmed the final results to be:
ENL 487.8 - 512.2 RES

While the final result has to be confirmed by Niantic, one thing is certain:
🔵 The Resistance captured the +Gamma Global Op!

@IUENG

With Ingress First Saturday badge points and +Gamma Token's being transferred to Agents, Niantic also updated the participation metrics for IFS Events in the month of February!

Both Factions hit the cap of 3000 participations, earning 300 Season Points each in this +Gamma Series!

March IFS Events are listed at https://fevgames.net/ifs/events

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-plusgamma-results

@IUENG

Niantic revealed the design of the +Gamma Onsite Badge! This badge can be obtained by completing the Anomaly Campaign at one of the Anomaly Sites for this series!

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

@IUENG

Niantic shared additional details about the three Campaigns that we reported about in the previous days, in particular regarding The Aberration Campaign.

All Campaigns will run from March 6th @ 18:00 UTC to April 6th @ 18:00 UTC. (If you are running the latest update of the official Telegram app, click the dates to view the times in your timezone!)

The Aberration
All Agents will be able to access a common Campaign called "The Aberration", which will contain both defensive tasks (deploy Resonators, create Links and Fields) and offensive tasks (destroy Resonators, fire XMPs, destroy Links).

🛡 Completing defensive tasks will unlock a campaign called “The Aberration: Superposition”.
⚔️ Completing offensive tasks will unlock a campaign called “The Aberration: Dissolution”.
⚖️ Completing both, will unlock a campaign called “The Aberration: Equilibrium”.

This is a chance for all Agents to obtain some additional +Gamma Tokens: a total of 3800 Tokens are up for grabs completing all the Aberration Campaigns.

The Feline Campaigns
Two additional premium campaigns (priced at 30.000 CMU) will be available for purchase in the in-app store: Bad Cat 2026 and Good Cat 2026.
Both campaigns, if completed will award their respective new medal.

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

@IUENG

We are receiving reports that Ingress is currently experiencing server issues with Agents not being able to take any action or being able to log in as well as the Intel Map not being reachable either.

This may not be isolated to just Ingress, as other services and sites are also having issues with reports from Facebook, Instagram, Steam and a lot others also being down.

We will keep you updated.

Current status: 🟢 The issue has been resolved and all systems are go. Daily Bounties progress is being caught up with. (00:09 UTC)

@IUENG

Niantic Spatial has announced that throughout this and next week the team is working on updates to their servers. These updates are happening on the live server, so a heads up was given that there might be some unannounced latency or outages throughout the work.

The exact details of these upgrades to the servers were not divulged, so it is unknown if this is simply required maintenance to keep the servers running or preparations for new features and/or better stability and fixes to existing features overall.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/1111

@IUENG

The Aberration, Good Cat and Bad Cat Campaigns have now started, and Agents are already tackling these tasks and progressing in the assignments. Posting all of the assignments for all 6 campaigns would be quite a wall of text, so here are some details about the Campaigns:

The Aberration (free)
Composed by 5 Assignments, each awarding 200 +Gamma Tokens by completing all of its 4 tasks.
Completing Assignment 1, unlocks The Aberration: Superposition Campaign.
Completing Assignment 2, unlocks The Aberration: Dissolution Campaign.
Completing Superposition and Dissolution unlocks The Aberration: Equilibrium Campaign.

The Aberration: Superposition Campaign (free)
Composed by 3 Assignments, each awarding 300 +Gamma Tokens by completing at least 4 of its 6 tasks.

The Aberration: Dissolution Campaign (free)
Composed by 3 Assignments, each awarding 300 +Gamma Tokens by completing at least 4 of its 6 tasks.

The Aberration: Equilibrium Campaign (free)
Composed by 2 Assignments, each awarding 500 +Gamma Tokens by completing at least 4 of its 6 tasks.

Bad Cat 2026 (Paid, 30.000 CMU)
Composed by 1 Assignment with 5 tasks, awarding the Bad Cat 2026 Medal on completion of at least 3.
Other kit awarded by completing tasks includes: 200x L8 XMP, 100x L8 Ultra Strike, 3x ADA Refactor, 3x Jarvis Virus

Good Cat 2026 (Paid, 30.000 CMU)
Composed by 1 Assignment with 5 tasks, awarding the Good Cat 2026 Medal on completion of at least 3.
Other kit awarded by completing tasks includes: 100x L8 Resonator, 20x Hypercube, 4x Apex, 2x Portal Fracker.

@IUENG

The Ingress Team has announced that several core community features will be paused or retired on March 11, 2026.

⏸️ On that date, access to Operation Portal Recon (OPR) will be paused, along with new Portal nominations and edits. At the same time, Overclock will be retired. According to the Ingress team, this change is part of a broader effort to realign the AR feature Overclock with Niantic Spatial’s updated priorities and spatial technology roadmap.

OPR was brought back online after the switch from Niantic to Niantic Spatial in November 2025, alongside the Seer Medal, to replace Wayfarer after it was sold to Scopely together with Pokemon Go.

🤳Scanning, along Scout and Scout Controller Badges will not be affected, as stated by Niantic Spatial on Reddit

🔜 In the short term, the Ingress team says their focus will shift toward campaigns, global operations, and infrastructure improvements. By pausing some legacy systems, they intend to free up resources to support the game and its community in the long term.

With OPR and submissions paused, the Portal Network will not receive new nominations or edits for the time being. However, the team acknowledged the importance of maintaining a high-quality and up-to-date Portal Network and stated they plan to explore "new approaches for supporting mapping initiatives" in the future.

🔒 In a post on BlueSky, Niantic acknowledged that opening OPR access to Level 16 Agents gave the team insight into the kinds of abuse they could expect if the platform were opened to all Agents. This experience highlighted the need for additional changes and safeguards before expanding the system further.
This is most likely a reference to recent cases of coordinated review abuse, including large-scale bot voting that was uncovered after Niantic added badge tier timestamps, which allowed the community to identify suspicious review patterns.

ℹ️ This pause is described as part of a redesign effort. Niantic says it will work on new ways to support community-driven mapping, similar to what OPR previously provided.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/pausing-opr-retiring-overclock

@IUENG

The second Anomaly Weekend of the +Gamma Series is here!

Agents from both Factions have made their way to 🇭🇷Zagreb and 🇭🇰Hong Kong, gearing up for tomorrow's Anomaly Events. While we count down to the battle, here's where things stand in the series:

The Enlightened currently hold a narrow lead over the Resistance, with 33.2% (1132.4) of all available points compared to the Resistance's 31.2% (1067.6), and there are still 4 Anomaly Events left to play.

With roughly one third of the points still on the table, every Agent's effort will count in deciding which Faction wins the series.

Tonight marks the start of the action, with the GORUCK Stealth Ops kicking things off.

Good luck to both Factions for day two of +Gamma Anomalies!

@IUENG

🇫🇮 Mission Day in Espoo, Finland

📍An epic Ingress weekend in the Finnish capital region!

On Sunday, June 7, 2026, the Finnish Ingress community invites agents to explore the Greater Tapiola region in Espoo during a Mission Day event!

📆 First Saturday the day before – June 6!

⚡️ Just 15 min from central Helsinki, Espoo blends cutting-edge tech with peaceful Nordic nature.

🖥 Tech Hub: Aalto University campus
🎨 Art & Culture: Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA)
🌲 Outdoors: Laajalahti bay area & nearby nature reserves

🚈 Easy to reach by public transport from Helsinki Airport
🚢 Take the ferry from Tallinn or Stockholm, bring your car, too!
🏨 Hotel deal incoming – stay the whole weekend!

A great way to kick off the summer ☀️🍻 See you in June!

📣 Info Channel (Read Only)
💬🇬🇧 Social Group (xFac)

🔵 RES POCs: @AboaSix @G0ldBuster
🟢 ENL POCs: @Gentianella @Applefly

Images (↩️ from top left) – Visit Espoo: Omar El Mrabt, Joni Viitanen, Rasmus Karppinen, Daniela Brezinova, Sirkku Backman

@IUENG

+Gamma Anomaly Series - It all comes down to the final weekend!

Only two Anomaly Events separate us from knowing the Faction which will capture the +Gamma Series!
Agents are arriving as we speak in 🇮🇳Hyderabad and 🇦🇷Buenos Aires to prepare for the final battle. Here is our usual recap on the current score.

The Enlightened have slightly widened their lead over the Resistance with 1467.4 points (43.2% of all available) against 1332.6 (39.2% of all available), with 2 Anomaly Events to play, each awarding 300 points.
At this point, it's still too early to call: the Resistance remains very much in contention. A strong performance across both cities this weekend could be enough to tip the scales, and Agents are ready to deliver.

The action has already begun with the GORUCK Stealth Ops kicking things off ahead of Saturday's main events.
Good luck to both Factions for the final weekend of +Gamma Anomalies: give it everything you've got!

@IUENG