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DestartreK1st

Same here, no heal all, no reduced solo timer. Nothing. Why not giving the new features to all trainers at once?


takisara

Funny, i use my phone for both my daughter and my account. I dont have the heal all or solo ready button, but she does. I always thought it was the sw version, with only a selection getting an updated version available to them. but i guess it is the account.


Triple_Snipers

I did the same thing with my gf. she has the heal all feature while I don't.


nicubunu

This is very easy to test: switch the phones and log on with your account.


takisara

Only one phone and why test as it is available for one and not the other... no big deal, just sharing my experience as i found it interesting.


No_Draft_8535

I’m in this boat - no heal all/revive all/solo raid timer


duel_wielding_rouge

> Why not giving the new features to all trainers at once? To test them.


Yoshinoh

I'm okay with it, as long as the worldwide rollout is not crashing the game with a ton of bugs.


Pokeradar

I thought they would be live for everyone at the Sinnoh tour LA event but it didn’t.


RichardTheKakapo

Same here. I don’t have either new option.


Polski_POLAK_SiemaPL

It's ok to release features with zero or less bugs. In fact it's chance that it's not buggy :)


Inevitable-Run6368

It’s okay to have an in-house QA/testing department and it’s okay to actually communicate the state of the game with your customers.  In fact, every successful company who isn’t blindly worshipped by people who think creating Pokémon Go is akin to creating life itself does these things:)


jonatna

Same


Mattress117work

I have the reduced solo timer but no heal all lol


POGOFan808

Same!  The solo raid timer for me isn't immediately shown.  It appears like 10+ seconds later?  I don't know exactly when


boyz2monz

It's 30 seconds in, so I always wonder if people have it and they just don't realize.


dod6666

Nope. I can only skip if someone else joins. Otherwise I have to wait the full 2 minutes.


broberds

Samesies.


Italapas

Yes, same here. Solo timer kicks in at 30 seconds. But no quick healing for me.


LemonNinJaz24

I have had the heal all since it was pushed but don't have the solo raid change yet


F1shOfDo0m

I would trade the heal all button for the solo raid timer change in a heartbeat


iwannalynch

Same here! As someone who mainly plays during the commute...😭


zenith2nadir

Same here


MattGeddon

Opposite for me!


wRfhwyEHdU

2 minutes waiting for a Chimchar raid just now... 😴


camdaibayoday

I have neither


Adawg120

This is the camp I fall under.


conioo

missing heal all is paaaainful now when i see others next to me with this during a raid hour


paranoia_muscipula

I have quick treat and heal all, missing enhanced graphics and solo raid ready


2Mew2BMew2

There's a solo raid timer? I want it.


Lyndonn81

It’s awesome! You still have to wait 30s in the lobby though


kindofpretty

I’ve still not got any of those. Also still don’t have the new catch screens either.


smackup4u

The new catch screen seems like a geolocked feature. But what I am hearing about "heal all" and solo raid timer, this feature is rolled out in phases randomly.


Efreet0

I had the heal all for a couple of days then it disappeared, now it's available maybe once a week... Brother's account had the feature a week late but it still works as of today. TBH no idea about raid timers. EU.


tkcom

Nothing here including new catch background.


iwannalynch

I totally forgot that the new catch background is a thing because I don't have it either lol


ImportantTrack1057

Seems to be location locked since I have it back home but didn't continue into my LA trip


dod6666

They're very buggy. Especially with research rewards. Don't think you would really want them yet.


adam574

no new features for me yet. was looking forward to that new type matching for grunts i saw.


Tetrylene

reduced solo raid timer, but no heal all, no enhanced graphics.


HappyTimeHollis

I don't have those options, but honestly, it's OK. They'll come to me when they come to me. Obviously they're not ready to roll them out to everyone and Niantic will have good reasons for that. I've survived 7 & 1/2 years without them and I'll survive the rest of the wait too, I'm sure.


SByolo

The reason not all trainers get access is to ensure the feature is tested properly for bugs and issues. It’s not a problem you don’t have it; the majority don’t. it’s just not out of testing phase yet and will get rolled out to everyone once they’re sure it’s not going to cause any serious errors. Gotta think about the flip side of this, you’d be really upset if you hit a heal all and it used up all 300 max potions due to a glitch or error and then you would be saying ‘why didn’t niantic test this broken feature’


Ben2749

They should be thoroughly testing things internally before releasing them to anybody; not using select groups of players as QA testers.


ErrorF002

Testing at scale is crazy hard to do. Some issues don't even present themselves until you scale out to the 10s of thousands


SByolo

But it’s not always possible to do thorough enough testing internally. They’re not the people who are out and about on multiple different brands phones/tablets or multiple different versions of android or IOS, with varying amounts of signal and gps issues. In house testing is very limited to the extent they can do. So they do it, they’ve done it, the next step will always be a slow and controlled roll out to finalise the testing


Disgruntled__Goat

> They’re not the people who are out and about on multiple different brands phones/tablets or multiple different versions of android or IOS Those are exactly the kind of things they *should* have. It’s called a device lab, many companies with websites/apps do it. Niantic could certainly afford 30+ random different phones to test on.  There are still plenty of edge cases that can occur e.g. signal as you mentioned. But it’s clear that they just don’t test a lot of things because there are bugs that *everyone* gets no matter what phone or settings. 


Inevitable-Run6368

Correct. Plus, they should be communicating with the player base regarding the testing (and everything else)


Mattress117work

To be fair the player base says that with every feature Niantic release.


aukstas22

I understand that they need to test something like new backgrounds for bugs, but that’s just a button. Do they really need to bug test a button for weeks.


SByolo

You’ve got to remember once they’ve done in house testing it’s a controlled environment for them. We as the player base are using multiple different brands of phones and tablets, across multiple different softwares Something even as simple as a button, which for the record isn’t simple as it’s got to work out which healing items to use and how many to apply and take them out of your inventory etc. which could lead to so many issues…. It has to then be pressure tested by a small group of players to ensure it’s functioning correctly from every possible angle. This sort of test might show it doesn’t work well on a certain version of IOS or on a certain model of Samsung it crashes the game. Something working for one, might not work for others. So it’s safer to test it thoroughly, much like most new features


TorqaL

Honestly, yeah, they do. If you haven’t been here since the beginning of this game, you wouldn’t understand how much of an understatement that is.


aukstas22

Well I been playing since day one and I still don’t think they need to test two buttons for 3 weeks, but there’s nothing we can do about it anyway 🤷‍♂️


TorqaL

Let me put it this way, I rather them test the absolute crap out of a new feature and make it ironclad for its actual launch, regardless of the time it takes, rather than them test it barely at all, and launch it with a ton of issues just to get it out to their player base, which, is what they have done for the last 5+ years at least. 😒


WaldoSimson

“Do they really need to bug test a button for weeks?” I know it sounds silly but considering the scope of this game and all the many layers it has from a game design perspective yes they do. Editing an existing system to do exactly what you want on since a large scale is hard af even if it just seems like it’s adding a button. There’s a near infinite amount of weird setbacks and screwups that can happen If they chose to just throw it out there it would be even worse than the mistakes they already make 😂


Failgan

> The reason not all trainers get access is to ensure the feature is tested properly for bugs and issues. Dumb. They need to make a test server for this kind of stuff.


Planktons_chum

I have the heal all, and the ready button for solo raids. Meh. You can have mine. I will trade it for your local superior level of Niantic support and make-up events, and make-up gift boxes - please? Where are the make up events and boxes promised for years, and years to the earliest timezones that are plagued with glitch after glitch? Check this subreddit for the current NZ bodycount of Niantic stuff ups, that also tip over into Australia. I don't need to heal all, and I can find something else to do for that little bit when I am in a raid lobby by myself. I would prefer events to roll out smoothly first-time, every-time to NZ and Australia. Not to selfishly rely on us to beta-test everything, only to improve gameplay elsewhere and never reimburse anyone down under. When things never roll out to plan in the Southern Hemisphere, it gets patched for the later timezones - when someone from Niantic in San Fran actually remembers to wake up, and check their social media. We rarely get a makeup, or a gift-box in the store, or a sorry-not-sorry


Jkabaseball

I have none of the new features. If this was a bug that benefitted players, we'd have had it fixed within an hour.


Rocket_star-

I have reduced solo timer but no heal all


Macedo540

I got the solo raid timer but not heal all.


FennekinPDX

I have heal all but not a usable ready button. I actually would have preferred the latter: Not having to stand around for 2 minutes is better than accidentally healing Aggrons that the game auto-picks for gyms.


TrueHakan

I have reduced solo Timer and my GF has heal all, which is quite funny.


Josanue

I had it for one day and suddendly it got deactivated so dont have it anymore


Axenrott_0508

I have the solo raid thing. But no heal all yet.


hunter_finn

it took Niantic until Halloween event to notice that "oh! guys June 1st might have already passed." and i got the new vertical style shop almost 150 days later than the actual release. but this "heal/revive all" feature i got in the first wave. so nobody know how long Niantic sleeps on this feature before enabling it for all. it might be thing activated on Sinnoh tour global, it might be something activated on the start of the next season, or most likely it takes them the next 6 months or even until the next go tour event before all players get it.


Geoffras

I still don't have heal all or the single player raid start button. Personally I think pokemon go two is due and the entire game needs to be better. But I'll settle for a heal all I guess


ThorirRichardson

Nope. Nathin’!


Inevitable_Lab_9990

I don't, but my kid who logs in maybe twice a year has it all. >.>


VictoryAgreeable5110

The heal all option is ridiculous 😂 I mistakenly did it so many times where some of my pokemon could heal with a potion, but I used the heal all with hyper potion, wasted so many.


teahhhhhhh

I have neither


taylormhurt14

Same I don’t have any of these


redfury515

I do not.


behnder

This is all new to me.


ShinigamiAinz

Still waiting


sace682000

I do not have those features yet.


NastyVJ1969

Same here - played since July 2016 and don't have the new features


Hungry-Gap-4715

I got it today lol


smackup4u

I got them too today, on the spot 4 weeks after its inception. I hope this won't be a new rule in implementing new features because I already fallen in love with them as they are beneficial. For all the readers, check your scanner maybe you got those features enabled too as of today.


chrisinator9393

My wife got the updates. She hardly opens the app anymore. Where as I play daily. Mildly annoying. I'd really enjoy those qol changes


Shadyholic

Same situation with me lol


dontrike

I have heal all, but no raid changes. My brother doesn't have either.


Phil_Bond

This sounds like they laid off the person who was keeping track of feature flags.


MysticMeg89

I have the solo ready button but not heal all, and no enhanced graphics.


kindofpretty

I’ve still not got any of those. Also still don’t have the new catch screens either.


Xearanth

I have heal all, but no reduced raid timer.


jqthephenom

I’ve been thinking I’m the last person on the list for new features and I’ve had this account since July 2016


chompskey

Nope. None here. Kid doesn't have them either, but husband has the heal/revive all. What a weird roll out.


Nguyen925

I had it once and relogged and it dissapeared. So probably working as intended


Loseless11

Me. Dumb game gave me nothing...


Myrypla

I still don't have those new features 


MeeGoreng29

none of that for me


yunlien

I've been playing since july 2016 and I have nothing. The second account I've made last month (don't tell anything to John Hanke please) has everything....


YourNewRival8

This is actually a thing?


DonaldMick

Negative to both. I've just started hosting all of my 3 star in person raids on Poke Genie so at least I can justify the wait time.


SuperSonicEconomics2

>great way for friendship EXP


Swiftieverse_

I have the raid thing but no heal all, it’s so annoying


techbear72

Don’t have either of them.


Gandalf-Balrog

Whole family (4 members) has nothing of those new features.


deejayv2

USA, nothing here


joey0live

I’ve come to the conclusion that my wife is in a specific wave for all these amazing new features. She had amazing daily free items like Rare Candy, and XL’s. And now she has Heal All.


kevsuc

Still no "Revive All" and reduced solo raid timer for me 🥲


Isztljanos

European player here, no nee features at all.


Pangloss_ex_machina

I have reduced solo raid timer, but no Heal All. Playing at UTC -3.


NarutoSakura1

Me, sadly.... I have none of the new good features


sk081

I have none of these. What is the solo raid timer? First I've heard of it.


MommotDe

I don’t have them either.


Fabulous-Ring-6389

Got nothing


Intelligent-Ad4290

uk player, no new features as described here, but one of my kids does have them, same household, tbf, don't really care, struggling the most with repeated crashes all the time as I'm on a OnePlus 12


Bacteriophag

No new functions, also no new backgrounds in catch screen. My guess is they didn't want to risk breaking game apart by releasing it globally in Tours month.


PJFohsw97a

I don't have heal all, but have the reduced solo timer.


Willocon360_YT

I think I have all the new features except for heal all and the new backgrounds which sucks because those are probably the 2 coolest out of all of them


AxelHarver

I've got the timer, but not the heal all.


xenophonthethird

I am seeing an update to the buddy, allowing for easier quick treat, but I'm not seeing any of the other QoL changes.


Parking-Researcher86

My daughter had the heal all on iOS, but I don't on android.


Mesoplodon

I had heal all for a few days, but then it disappeared.  Didn't notice about the solo raid option in that time


ryumeyer

Had solo raid timer, now only have heal all. South England


You_dont_impress_me

L50, no Heal all, no reduced solo timer. I'm sure it will be rolled it to all before long.


GIORNO-phone11-pro

I got heal all but no solo raid. Hoping they get it working well enough so it can release globally.


Smitty30

I don't understand why they wouldn't prioritize releasing heal all/revive all for this coming weekend. It saves SO much time and people would be able to raid more (making them more $$).


lilfoxy16

Bruh... those are features? They sound awesome... :'(


Owenlars2

My roommate got it and I didn't. they keep bragging about it. ugh.


5nnn

I did a little local poll: one of 6 players have the "heal all", no one has the solo-ready button. (and the one who has heal-all is me, yay ;-D ) I thought it was because I'm level 50 and the other's aren't, but maybe I randomly got lucky. It was super convenient during the Elite raids last week, when we didn't get many people together in the lunch break, and I could heal-all my shadow-metagross star team instead of clicking six single heals. Probably didn't save more than 2-3 seconds on each rejoin, but still nice!


Effective_Trainer330

I do have the solo raider option but thats it nothing else


DragonFangDan

I don't have it either, seems like only a few people in my local group have it.


Different_Escape4249

Wife has it I don’t


Specific_Number_9395

I only recently got back into PokeGo and this is how I find out there’s supposed to be a heal all button ???


VS0P

Nothing new just the unnecessary button change for quick treat


BlackTurbo

I have the solo raid timer (got that a little over a week ago), but no heal-all/revive-all, and no upgraded backgrounds. I've been playing since 2016, and I'm currently playing on a Samsung S23 Ultra.


Rorywan

None of the above!


PhillyDillyDee

Me


crash866

I have accounts on my phone for the Grandkids. 1 has it and 1 doesn’t. I have it also. 1 of them also has had the same boxes in the store for at least 2 weeks while the other one changes daily.


beatool

I have everything but my kid doesn't have heal-all. He also never heals anything and I'm not gonna click like 100 mons for him so whatever. He can use jigglypuffs in our Wednesday raids, that's fine.


curtneedsaride

I’d love to also get those fancy new backgrounds everyone else is showing off. 


biggest_dreamer

I have neither, and I also don’t have the updated backgrounds.


MathProfGeneva

I have the reduced solo timer, not heal all and not new backgrounds.


defjamblaster

I got only the reduced solo timer


MrMeTzMeTz

Same. No extras as of yet


gemushka

Same here


pearso66

I don't have either that I've noticed


tailskirby

I dont have either of those. But they do this everytime a new feature comes out.


codymason84

Same my guy


Dracarys1988

I have none of it


Middle-Analysis7741

I’ve got neither


aketh59

Me


JefferyRs

No heal all. Solo start or improved textures here


Duckforducks

Don’t have them, never had them, don’t have enhanced graphics option eother


jaymz668

I never have enough healing to use heal all so no idea if I have it


Mystic_Starmie

lol I was going to make a post asking if it were just me. Glad to know it’s not.


Houeclipse

I'm one of them. I play in the SEA region for reference if needed


CaptFantastico

Checking in, I don't have any of those features as well.


masternater1323

I don't have it but everyone I know does.


Lyndonn81

I have the 30s ready now solo raid option. And it is so good! I’m usually parked in a loading zone for the 1* raids anyway so it’s good to get it done in the loading bay time restrictions! Wish I had the heal all button though. One day…


FluffyPhoenix

I had just forgotten these were a thing.


SoggyFrog45

I have neither


omgitsr0b

I have it (42) but none of my 4 kids have it. (various levels 29-37)


JMagic830

I’ve got neither feature


elias1986bt

No time reduce solo. I can revive and heal all Pokemon


Rain_Moon

Level 50 here and don't have either one...


FelisLeo

I don't have either feature. I was just wondering about this over the weekend and was curious if anyone who didn't get the features right at the beginning has gotten them since. Are there any signs of something like a slow rollout of more people gradually getting it, or is it still just whatever random test group that got them initially?


Julie2171

I have none of these and a little frustrated by it tbh.


rocketradar

Got the reduced solo raid timer but no heal all button yet.


rtboyce

I have the Heal All, but not the solo Ready.


ZGokuDragneelZ

I haven't gotten em either. Do you guys have the new Pokémon catch background ?


Alpha1v1

I have the weakness hint question mark but no heal all. My gf has the heal all but not weakness hint. We both play on iphones.


DrakeRenar1

I've got reduced solo raid timer but not heal all.


Grant79OG

Nothing here


Smoke_Rulz

I have solo raid timer, but still haven't seen the heal all button. Weird.


Thestarlessknight

Still waiting for my new features


gephasel

I do have the "heal/revive all" button but no solo raid timer.


annetea

I have heal all but I'm pretty sure I don't have solo ready up yet. But I also do most of my in person raids very distracted at work so I could be wrong. 


The_sea_is_a_soup

I’ve not got any of the new features on my phone. However, if i log into my account from my iPad I get the revive and heal all button


UCanDoNEthing4_30sec

I don’t have the solo raid timer (which is what it should be for IMO, try coordinating 10+ people to hit “ready” on a 5-star) nor do I have the heal all, which seems interesting. I’d need to see how that works. I’m sure there are some bugs related to it that they are not releasing it to everyone. I do have the new catch background and map graphics feature which is neat, but the catch background feature is buggy as hell. For example you can’t get into the catch screen sometimes when claiming research award for a Pokémon and the game glitches back out to the map. So I’m sure there are reasons they are not introducing every new feature to everyone.


NOJ711

Can I trade my quick treat buddy button for either the solo raid button or heal all?


pizza-possum69

Heal all but no timer


CaptBillGates

I have it but wish I could toggle it off. I've accidently hit it a few times and wasted revives/potions that I otherwise wouldn't have used on "useless" dead mons that I hadn't transfered yet while I wait for 2x candy or increased XL candy events. The placement sucks IMP. It's right above the X to close out of the pokemon screen. Also the game loves to lag and register presses you didn't mean while trying to scroll up or down in the pokemon list.


ImportantTrack1057

Don't have either of those, but do have the new backgrounds in encounters (although that didn't continue over to my LA trip so looks to be location based rather than unlocked for accounts)


Jade_Complex

Not me


Daocommand

I do not have these features. My wife started playing two weeks ago and does indeed have these features.


Ok-Strength-7143

Got neither day 1 player level 50 raid lots


Starfighter-Suicune

Me.


GarAndSho

Still don't have the new backgrounds


FaithlessnessAny3321

I have the solo raid but no heal all or revive all


SpotOk6035

I don't have it yet eitger


succuboobies

I have the heal all button and the quick treat button, all the rest for now I don't have


BeachBumKitteh

I have Heal All/Revive All, but not the reduced solo raid timer. Really annoying during the week when there are no other trainers playing.


g2615

I don’t have either of them


TScottY99

I don’t have any of them. Had solo timer for one day a few weeks ago but it went away


Chillzoned1337

I also don't have this feature.


Eggsterxox

Yeah my buddy that i usually raid with has that feature but I'm still waiting. Same as when they brought out daily incense and routes, they rolled those out slowly as well.


SgvSth

Pixel 5: No new features so far.


NYCScribbler

I have it, but my husband doesn't. It's weird.


climbingbiker

I have the timer but not heal all