Game Issues
Mega Pinsir Portrait Not Pushed
The portrait for Mega Pinsir was never pushed, so it doesn't load.
Blanche Research Issues
Because Niantic never forced 267, the Blanche research doesn't work unless you are updated. In addition, when Blanche talks to you, they go back to a T-pose position on every dialog step. The model was fixed after a day, but the force never happened so for the entire event this was broken. Niantic never acknowledged it.
Bruxish Isn't Set Correctly
Bruxish has its mode set to jump, meaning it "jumps" like Pokemon with an actual jumping animation during the encounter. But because it has no jumping animation it just moves up and down. Most other fish Pokemon move side to side, which is the proper mode Bruxish should be set to.
Paldea Icon in PokeDex is Broken
Clicking on the Paldea pokedex icon takes you to Kanto instead of Paldea.
Non Native Refresh Rate Is Broken
When disabling Native Refresh rate, the app will now go back to 1/4 of your FPS instead of 1/2. Example: you have a 120 screen. Previously turning off native and rebooting the game would set the game to 60. Now it sets it to 30.
Niantic Forgot About NY Stickers, Pose, and Fireworks
With the start of the New Year's 2023 event, Niantic never pushed or activated the stickers, or activated the pose, even after advertising it in the shop. On Jan 1 they pushed and activated the stickers. But the fireworks they announced were never pushed, activated, or acknowledged by Niantic.
Vivillion Badge is not actually part of the badges
It's placed in the list, but you can't swipe left and right to view other badges. When you are on a badge to the left or right of it and swipe to go to the Vivillion badge, it skips it.
Hoenn Mega Raid Day
The Hoenn Mega Pokemon started with the Megas spawning as T5 difficulty and timers, with T5 raids being listed in the Today View. After about an hour they fixed them back to T4 difficulty. The bonus XP and stardust from the ticket were also not rewarded. Niantic has said this is just a visual glitch for the XP however there have been reports that the stardust issues were in fact broken. Niantic has not commented on the stardust.
GBL Battle Pass Was Automatically Given To Accounts And Keeps Appearing In The Shop
If you had the Season 8 battle pass but never finished it, you were automatically given the Season 9 pass, even if you didn't claim it. In addition, every few days, if you did claim the Season 9 battle pass, it would re-appear in the shop. Claiming it would do nothing, and then it would appear again later and repeat.
Ultra Beast Spawns Didn't Work
Like Elite Raids and the Community Day Raid spawns, the Ultra Beast spawns after the raid was complete were broken. Similar reports to previous events, where either people didn't receive the timer after the raid was complete, or they didn't see any rare spawns. Like Elite Raids and Community Day Raid spawns, Niantic is ignoring this issue and pretending it's fine.
Menu Items Reload Constantly Creating A Flashing Effect
Unclear what triggers this, but menu items can get stuck in a loop after opening, where they constantly open and close creating a strobe/flashing effect.
Launching Pokémon Go from a raid invite notification causes overlay issues
When launching Pokemon Go from a raid invite and going straight into that raid the games main overlay (Pokeball Menu, nearby, quests etc) all remain on top of the raid interface and fully interactable.
Elite Raids
Elite Raids have had several issues with their launch including the fact they were blocking/blocked the Community Day eggs at the time. For the second round of Elite Raids, Niantic instead spawned them after Community Day eggs instead of the 24-hour timer they were supposed to have. If you were doing one of the Community Day raids when the Elite Raids would spawn, you would be unable to complete the raid, and kicked out as if you lost the raid (your pass would be taken). If you try to do the Elite Raid the next day, it claims you have already used a pass. During the second round, many trainers reported they couldn't actually finish the raid, with the HP going to 0 but the raid never finishing. Other issues reported were once you completed the raid, after throwing the first ball, Hoopa would instantly run. You could then go back into the raid, and try to catch Hoopa again, but it would always run on the first ball. One of the main issues was the 'bonus' that Niantic told people to stay around the gym for, but then silently removed any mention of it from their articles. After the raid was complete, the BCR of one of the Kanto birds (depending on the time the Elite Raid took place) was increased significantly making it harder to catch. This happened during the second round of Elite Raids as well. At this point some trainers had a 15-minute timer appear, and some had the timer appear twice. Some received rare spawns such as Galarian Mr. Mime. Some saw the Kanto birds. Some attempted to catch one of these Pokemon and it would disappear. If you did get the rare spawns and walked more than about 20 meters away from the gym, the spawns would disappear. If you were tracking one of these rare spawns, the nearby list would glitch out and show you tracking two separate Pokemon. Niantic has completely ignored the issues, and hasn't acknowledged anything regarding these spawns so it is not clear what was supposed to happen. Niantic had a second round of Elite Raids on November 13th, which appears to have fixed nothing from the first round of issues. Niantic has still not acknowledged any of these issues.
Map Glitches And Changes Ground Texture
After the Halloween map update, the map will glitch out and change ground textures for about a second seemingly randomly. This has not been acknowledged by Niantic.
Absol with Sunglasses Mega Evolution icon missing
Absol with Sunglasses, when Mega Evolving, gltiches the Mega Evolution icon, sometimes missing, or appearing as other Pokemon. Other costumed Pokemon, such as Blastoise and the Gengar costumes behave normally. Image via u/zapellat on /r/thesilphroad.
Recently Fixed
Starly's Wings Are Broken
Like Pidgey before, it has no wings. Probably been broken since the Unity 2021 update. This was fixed at some point but we weren't sure when.
Premier Balls are Usable in the Wild and Quests
By doing a raid or rocket, then tapping on a wild Pokemon with remember the last ball enabled, the premier ball comes up. If you try to catch the Pokemon with it, it runs (but just visually).
269 Crashes On Start
Some Android devices are crashing on 269 when they boot up. Fresh installs or going back to 267 appear to be the workarounds. Niantic acknowledged they are looking into it.
Blanche Research Reset
At the end of the Blanche event, everyone's special research reset if they didn't complete it. Niantic acknowledged this issue and promptly auto-completed people's research to get based this step for them.
Blanche Lapras not added
Niantic has not pushed the assets for Blanche Lapras causing the encounter to error when loading that encounter, making it uncatchable.
April Quests Never Re-Rolled
Niantic forgot to re-roll new quests for April. They eventually realized this and fixed it on April 3th.
Willow Ticket can't be gifted
The Willow ticket can not be gifted and shows as the GO fest ticket in players' inventory. This was fixed to be giftable on the 1st, but it was using the wrong sprite. They fixed the sprite the next day.
Gimmighoul
Gimmighoul's stats were copy and pasted from other Mons without being checked, so it is very broken. Wrong buddy/walked stats, wrong evo requirements, wrong third move, probably wrong BCR and BFR, wrong sizing, and more. This has been partially fixed but some issues still remain.
Game Freezes Trying to Claim Scatterbug
Since 261, there is a high chance the game will freeze when claiming a Scatterbug from the pop-up notification. Niantic has not acknowledged this issue but there were no reports of this since .3.
Friends List Issues
Since 261, the friend list's avatars appear to be double rendered, and moving left to right in your friends list info screen glitches for a second and shows you the previous friend's avatar and buddy. Niantic has not acknowledged this issue but it doesn't appear to happen since .3.
Raids Are Unresponsive And Second Charge Moves Don't Work
In 261, raids can become unresponsive with taps not showing and your Mon standing still. It appears to still be doing damage, but your second charge move won't charge and your first charge move won't fire. If your Mon faints, you can be stuck in an unresponsive state for 30+ seconds. This appears to happen randomly, from reports about 1/5 raids. From further reports, it appears to be triggered when you use a Mon with a second charge move, where the second move won't charge/fire, and then the other issues start. Niantic never acknowledged this issue, but there haven't been reports of it in a while so marking as fixed.
Can't Search Mega Levels
When Niantic pushed the new Mega settings for Primals, they broke the ability to use search filters like `mega1`, `mega2`, etc. Niantic removed the text for the new Pokedex which fixed this issue.
Battle Parties Do Not Sync
Niantic launched the Battle Party feature on December 7th, 2017. At that time, they announced Battle Party syncing between devices. It never came. Several years later, they announced that Battle Party sync was now available, but it was never activated. The feature is still not active today.
Quest Stamps Are Double Rendered
Like the friends list, the quest stamps are double rendered, making it difficult to tell if you have completed your stamp for the day or not. This was fixed in 261.1.
Kecleon Issues
For the most part Kecleon was a successful rollout without any game breaking bugs. There were a few issues, some of which Niantic has acknowledged. They include: It uses Meltan's cry (not acknowledged), it has no gender so it was disabled being sent to HOME, sometimes it doesn't appear on the map after being attacked, and Niantic says this is an issue - you can see Kecleon when outside the stop's radius. The cry and gender has been fixed and on Jan 31 they re-enabled HOME sending.