2.31.2 Nearby portal location is completely useless
One thing I wasn't missing with Prime was the completely useless nearby portal location. It used to disappear when we were zooming out. Now, there is no way to get it to disappear. It's extremely useless because 98% of the time, we play on known territory and we know where the portals are. It just clutters the screen for no reason and seems to make it slower. In addition, we use to see portals, links, etc. to a greater distance when we were zoomed and looking horizontally. Now, we don't see a portal 400m away... Don't try to fix something which is not broken... It's extremely frustrating to see a degrading change like that...
If you put a toggle ON/OFF, please reconsider increasing the distance on objects that we see when looking out far. That was a great feature. Or at least give us the option to set the distance ourselves. I know the needs for people playing in urban vs rural area are very different.
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Zooming out all the way hides them (atleast when I tried)
Zooming all the way out does not affect them for me on iPhone X.
But there are times I need to zoom in to select the correct portal, but the Nearby's pop in and got in the way. They repeatedly tripped up my flow today while fielding the Tamarack. And I skipped going to the Berkley Exhibition Coal Mines/New River Park because I didn't want to deal with it AND the oppressive heat. Though the heat itself was enough to cut my day out short.
It doesn't for.me either...
Just checked again and the nearby portals disappear as soon as a portal is visible on the map, which I think is how it was intended to be.
Please let us turn these stupid floating popups off. I can't believe this made it into Prime. Now I can't see the map or my position because I have moving non-interactive boxes taking up 1/4 of the screen.
They sometimes even show up when portals are clearly visible (like when coming out of battery saver).
I had one portal show in 3 separate popups on the same screen as well as having one show up as Neutral on the info, but obviously it is a L5 Res portal with 8 fully charged resos.
That's what I'm talking about
That screenshot shows another bug: the box on the left has a directional arrow, the ones on the right don't because they are positioned over the side of the screen.
Agree, they are useless.
When travelling in rural areas the popups dont give nearby portals, but rather portals you have recently recharged or hacked.
I travelled 300 miles and still getting popups of original portal despite being within 2 miles of a town with 60-80 portals.
Suggest it is switched off and reworked... the mechanics on redacted worked so much better.
this looks awful, please make an option to enable/disable this and not force that...