Get your wrist-mounted adventures in while you can, Trainers: Niantic is pulling the plug on Pokémon Go for Apple Watch.
The game’s developer noted in a support article that players will no longer be able to connect their Apple Watch to the app as of July 1, 2019 (h/t 9to5Mac). The change is apparently tied to a feature called Adventure Sync that Niantic launched in 2018.
Adventure Sync gives players the ability to track their distance traveled even when the Pokémon Go app isn’t open. Once the app is synced with either Apple Health or Google Fit, users receive a weekly fitness report. That’s in addition to the in-game benefits of an active lifestyle, namely more eggs hatched. Read more…
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