Due the recent COVID-19 outbreaks Niantic and Nintendo have been doing their best in order to keep people inside, while still enjoying Pokemon GO. Recently Niantic also announced they would allow people to enter raids from home.

The distance from which you can interact with Gyms has been temporarily doubled, allowing you to be farther from Gyms and other Trainers as you challenge Raid Bosses. This change also allows you to spin Photo Discs at Gyms if you are within the doubled distance; however, it will not change the distance required to spin Photo Discs at PokéStops.

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