Approved New Photos Don't Appear in Ingress
Approved new photos haven't been uploaded to Ingress in 2022. Wayfarer/Lightship says it's an Ingress problem.
In 2021, photos weren't uploading - but then they did for a few months - but then they stopped again. Either the 2021 bug fix was backed out by accident, or a new bug appeared.
It's demoralizing to never see your pictures on portals, and cumbersome/impossible to keep keys to everything, to upvote the better picture whenever it arrives.
Niantic: Do we have an ETA this fix?
Agents: Please add your missing pictures to this post: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/15025/portal-additional-pictures-not-appearing That way Ingress will have test cases all over the globe to (1) prove it's a problem, (2) keep the bug on the first page forefront, and (3) see if the 2022 fix actually fixes the problem.
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If the portal is also a pokestop, adding a like to the photo on Pokemon Go makes it also appear on Ingress. (DISCLAIMER: it worked a couple of month ago, but I haven't tested it since)
Last few months, people on Wayfarer say that liking a photo in PoGo does NOT make it appear in Ingress. That was the 2021 work-around. No one has found a work-around for the 2022 Ingress photo bug.
They don't appear on the Pokestop either to try upvoting there
Still a few outstanding issues with wayfarer/lightship. Got a wayspot approved but realized it was too close to another existing wayspot. Got the existing wayspot moved (it was a playground, so just bumped it over 3m) and my newly approved wayspot should have been able to find it's way into our games. Nope, hasn't appeared and now, anytime someone else submits a wayspot for this basketball court, they'll get a rejection for it being a duplicate, even though it doesn't exist in any game.
I think the wayfarer forums are a better spot for these types of bugs as they actually have active people from Niantic. Not seeing that here unfortunately.
This has been an ongoing issue for a while. Wayfarer forums say it’s an Ingress issue, and Ingress forums provide no response.
It doesn’t seem it’s an issue that they’re in a hurry to fix as Ingress is not the main money spinner.
@PkmnTrainerJ Niantic are ONLY advertising heavily, Pokémon.
Maybe they have decided that they have ra ped and pillaged Ingress enough to make it not a money earner
In my experience, making an additional edit that gets approved in Wayfarer (I prefer to add or update the description field) seems to cause the photos to sync.
Thanks for the tip! I edited name and description on two keys where long-accepted photos don't show up. I have others are out of range for an edit. I wish I had more keys to the close ones. But hopefully I'll at least get photos on those two!
Is there any update on this?
I’d seen that @NianticThia mentioned she would look to provide an update next week;
which was on 23rd July.
At the moment, the only way to get new photos in is to have a Pokémon GO player who is level 38+ give the new photo a 👍
lol -She claims to like a troll tho, so not unexpected.
With the new wayfarer app you can see all photos on wayspots. They also show up in pokemon, so it has to be something related to Ingress. I'm sure they're 'investigating'. :D
Likely no comment until it’s fixed. Or, just no comment at all. Par for the course with this team…