How come Pokemon Go on my iPhone and iPad running side by side give different near-by Pokemons?
My Pokemon Go has been running on iPhone for an hour, and it shows a nearby Pikachu (top-right at the 3 x 3 popup).
But if I start up Pokemon Go on my iPad next to my iPhone, and after a few minutes and now half an hour, it still doesn't show a Pikachu nearby.
So how come they can show different Pokemons, and which one should I look at? If I do activate an Incense, hoping to catch Pikachu, I might be activating it for nothing?
Best Answer
There seems to be a bug that sometimes a Pokémon is shown in the nearby section while it is already gone. To check this you can kill the app and start it again and see if it's still in the nearby section.
Furthermore a spawn Pokémon stays a maximum of 15 minutes so if you see a Pokémon in the nearby section for longer than that you also probably in the situation described in the first paragraph.
Finally you seem to misunderstand how incense works. It has absolutely no effect on the nearby Pokémon. Incense makes the game spawn new Pokémon (and also just for the user of the incense), and does not attract the already spawn Pokémon there, although if you're in a area that has regular Pikachu spawns it would possibly help.
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