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A new version of pokemon go is available, would you like to update? (Rant)

So I turned on pogo after charging my phone for a while and to my great surprise there was a Larvitar near a pokestop 500m away. I threw on my jacket and headed out to get it, picking up a great pace as I had no idea how long it would be there. I caught a pidgey halfway, because exp is always nice. Larvitar was still on the tracker.

As I approach the pokestop I notice a red banner at the top of my phone saying: "A new version of pokemon go is available, would you like to update now?". No. Not interested. Where is the no-button? There is only "OK". I press the back-button on my phone repeatedly to no avail. I'm at the pokestop now, and I realise there is no other option than to give up and head into play store.

You have probably guessed how the story ends. 45 painfully slow megabytes later, I'm staring blankly at the new years loading screen, hoping that the larvitar will still be there. Nope. Despawned. I circle the pokestop a few times just in case, but no.

Thanks, Niantic. No, I didn't want to update. I had just walked 500 meters in great haste, all because I wanted a Larvitar. Not some minor text fixes. But that's all I got. And a Krabby I caught on the way home. Happy update, guys.

Asked by noxify8 years ago

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ouch/10...I feel your pain.

Did you try to restart the app?
I am not sure it would have worked, but it would have been the first thing I would have tried.

Thanks for the tip, maybe I can try that the next time it happens, unless niantic learns from their mistakes. I figured I didn't have time to try all options, and I was right. It would have been fine hadn't it been for the fact that it's cold outside and I wouldn't have gone out if it wasn't for the larvitar.

I have not been able to get out of updating when it pops up at opening. Signing off, powering off... nothing works. Just have to update unfortunately

Damn dude, that stinks. I'm sorry

I hate this. They need to give announcement on forced updates ahead of time so we can update on wifi. It is especially bad on iPhone because I think it redownloads the entire app and wastes a lot of data usage.

Me TOOO. Why is is there not a scheduled maintenance message showing a week prior with details like start time and est time down. On the next level maybe a countdown timer for the last couple hours. All the other app games do this I just dont understand why Niantic cant do this.

At the very least put the date the update will be required in the release notes instead of "Minor text fixes" which sounds much less important.

It was only larvitar.
Your story could be much worst.

Think of how in shape you will be to catch the next one!

That sounds very frustrating. Sorry that happened to you.

I had just finished prestiging a gym today when the forced update happened. Then, when I went to put a pokemon in the gym, the message popped up that I had to update. I'm glad nobody snagged the spot while I was updating. It was very annoying having to use my data for the update. I had no idea that it would make me do this, and while the game was running. I'm not sure whether the update was available before this point, but from now on when I hear of an update, I'll try to download it from home as soon as I can.