Changing my phone soon. Will I get limits imposed temporarily?
In the past, I've heard that when people installed the game on a different phone and used an account they used to play on another phone, they would get softbanned and would only be able to see city trash pokemon for a while.
If I move my account to the new phone, will I get softbanned too? Should I wait until after Feb 16th to log in on it so I could capture shiny swinub?
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I've read somewhere about some account sharing family getting softbanned because they swapped accounts from one phone to another, and some other players saying they moved their account to a new phone and got softbanned (but I don't remember them specifying if they logged in from two different places or such).
Softbanning will happen if for any reason your account tries to do actions in two different places and the game judges the movement between those spots was too fast. Having the same account be logged on in two different places and doing ingame actions is a way to trigger this.
The good news is that softbans last a few hours at most.
Same deal, I log onto my account on another phone every now and then and have never gotten even the 10 minute softban for it. I'm pretty sure people used to do evolves on multiple phones for the same account and didn't get any repercussions for it. Shadowbans were always associated primarily with unauthorized API access (ie. IV scans) or potential spoofing.
