In our little guide to Pokémon GO, we’ll show you how you can save a lot of data volume with a few simple settings.
Pokémon GO does not consume much data volume. However, if you still do your rounds every day, you can easily use up 200 to 300 MB of your limited monthly bandwidth. In our guide, we’ll show you how you can use a simple trick in Pokémon GO to not only throttle your used mobile data, but also save your phone battery.
As you may already know, Pokémon GO uses the Google Maps API. To save data volume and battery life, you need to download the map of your surroundings from Google Maps in offline mode. And this is how it works:
Update: Although some players report saving battery as well as having less mobile data consumption by using this trick, it doesn’t seem to work. Pokémon Go accesses its own map data and did not use maps from Google.
Step 1: Pokémon GO battery and data volume saving.
Open Google Maps on your smartphone and go to “Options” at the top left. Select “Offline maps” here.
Step 2: Save Pokémon GO battery and data volume
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The next step is to download the map of your area, so make sure you have a wifi connection to your smartphone – you want to save data and not consume more. Name your map and start downloading. In our case, the maps of Nuremberg and the surrounding area are 175 mb in size.
If you travel a lot, you can of course download more maps from other places. However, this does not mean that you will be able to play Pokémon GO offline in the future. To save even more battery power, activate the battery saver in the Pokémon GO settings.
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Pokémon GO
Pokémon Go is the mobile spin-off of Nintendo’s popular Pokémon game series for Android and iOS. It is a so-called “location-based game”, i.e. a game that uses the player’s immediate surroundings. It is based on the principle of augmented reality.
Pokémon Map: Between landmarks and sights
Pokémon Go uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) to determine the player’s location and displays it on a map that also represents the playing field. The map is based on OpenStreetMap maps. The game is played mostly outdoors and uses landmarks, landmarks and other notable or eye-catching objects in the world to position either PokéStops or arenas there for you to battle for supremacy. Join either Team Intuition (Team Yellow, Zapdos), Team Wisdom (Team Blue, Arktos), or Team Daring (Team Red, Lavados). Under their flag you can then fight for the arenas, which are placed at hotspots like churches or similar. Pokémon can appear anywhere, though.
Pocket monsters visible on the Pokémon Go Map are randomly loaded into the game’s virtual map by the game server. If several players are playing in the same location, each player can see and catch the Pokémon independently of the others.
Pokémon Go Updates, News, Raids and More
The developers at Niantic regularly provide Pokémon Go with new updates or special raids that should only be tackled in a group of several people. The Pokémon Go Raids are therefore very popular, as they also offer the prospect of particularly rare Pokémon. For example, in the past, legendary Pokémon could always be caught on special occasions (Pokémon Go events). For particularly eager mobile or smartphone Pokémon trainers, there is also an external IV calculator, such as the online tool from Pokemon.gameinfo.io or on Pokefans.net, to check the values of your Pokémon.
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