\tNiantic revealed plans to end support for the Apple Watch app for Pokemon Go on 1 July, stating players’ activity can now be effectively tracked using just the smartphone app.<\/p>\n
The Watch app enabled users to log distances for certain in-game features using the device’s step count, rather than needing to have the app running on the phone, meaning distances covered during exercise counted toward the total.<\/p>\n
Its Watch app could also alert users when Pokemon appeared and allowed items to be collected at Pokestops, again without the need to use the smartphone.<\/p>\n
Niantic pointed users toward its Adventure Sync feature, which links with Apple Health or Google Fit data to track distances covered.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to focus on building Adventure Sync so that Trainers will no longer have to split their gameplay between two devices,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n
However, other features of the Apple Watch app will not be replicated.<\/p>\n
Pokemon Go was launched for the Apple device in 2016, at which point it brought together the hottest game of the time with the coolest wearable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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