In Pokémon GO, there is currently a lot of controversy regarding the support of some Android devices. Niantic intends to discontinue this support, which will exclude hundreds of phones.
This was announced: Last week, Niantic announced that they are discontinuing support for all 32-bit Android devices. This affects quite a number of phones, as resourceful users have discovered on reddit.
We will show you the list of affected phones here.
These phones may no longer play Pokémon GO soon
This is the list: On reddit, players have compiled a large number of devices that are affected by this issue. This also includes numerous devices from 2018 and even 2019. All known phones that you will no longer be able to use with the discontinuation of support are listed in a Google document.
We will show you some prominent cases here:
- Samsung A10(e) (2019)
- Samsung A3 (2016, 2017)
- Samsung A5
- Xiaomi Redmi 4a, 6, 6a, 7a, 8a, S2 (2016-2019)
- LG K20 (2019)
- LG K30 (2018)
- Huawei Y5 (2019)
This means that even phones that are just one year old are affected. If you are using such a device, then Pokémon GO will soon no longer function. You will then need to purchase a 64-bit device if you want to continue playing. Alternatively, an iOS phone, meaning an Apple device, will also work. Recently, there have been numerous bugs on Apple devices – especially in raids.
When will this change take effect? Niantic states that an update is expected in August, which will bring this change. So you can continue playing normally until then, no matter which Android device you are using.
What do trainers say about this? Many players are upset about these changes. After all, many phones included are from 2019. So it’s not just the old devices that are affected, but also newly purchased phones.
Dudwithacake writes on reddit: “It’s unbelievable that they are excluding phones released in 2019.”
BCHiker even believes there is an error on Niantic’s part: “Something must not be right here… Either Niantic meant that the phones only need to have 64-bit hardware, or they were not aware that a considerable percentage of Android phones with a 32-bit operating system run on 64-bit hardware. They cannot possibly agree to lose around 25% of their Android players, can they?”
Recently, Niantic also made headlines with unjustified bans. Players were banned even though they had done nothing illegal in the game.
