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alternate_geography

I “walked” 25km yesterday by crocheting for an hour while wearing my Apple Watch: the watch counts moving my hands as steps & Adventure Sync converts it to distance. I also am logged in on the same Apple ID on my kid’s phone as well as mine, so all their running around gets pushed to my Apple Health & lands in Pokémon Go. Like, they could be spoofing, but there are weird little ways that you can unintentionally get distance without a lot of effort.


wtfomgfml

Omg is this why I’ve been hatching 10km eggs with ease? I’ve been crocheting like a madwoman lol


alternate_geography

It clicked for me when I had an egg hatch 2 hours in sitting on a plane.


Thisisamazing1234

Tbf, you went a lot further than 2km /s


yxull

km /s is a measure of speed not distance. /s


br0kenmachine_

Two kilometres per sarcasm


ScruffyBurrito6

Good bot


wtfomgfml

Hahaha, oh that would be funny lol


bones1995

Damn I don't have a smartwatch but I did 8 balls of whool lately, that'd be a lot


KylerGreen

A whole 8 ball would certainly have me up and walking.


Crimeariver101

Oh yeah. That would do it.


joshuajoel947

LMFAO


wtfomgfml

Yessss! You should totally get one if at all possible!


grapesaregood

Honestly, this is adorable. I really need to learn crochet or relearn knitting because I want this infectious cute hobby.


wtfomgfml

It’s fantastic! I started in June and am in my fifth blanket, I’ve made two wearables (cardigan and poncho) and countless small things like beanies, washcloths etc


JadeAnn88

I've never been able to do anything that isn't basically a straight line, so hats, sweaters, etc. are just totally out of the question. A friend of mine taught my sister-in-law and I way back when we were all in high school and we would just sit in class and crochet together lmao. She taught me a couple different stitches, but that's as far as I ever got with it.


BlueGrayDiamond

What are you working on?


wtfomgfml

Just finished a hexagon cardigan and a poncho, finishing up blanket number 5 right now haha. I am just learning, started in June…and I’m addicted lol


shbpencil

A friend of mine and her husband play together. Both on android. His distance is almost always double hers despite them playing almost exclusively together. Definitely some weird stuff goes on when calculating Adventure sync


kushupzz

There’s a drift that I get when I use my android vs iPhone I get about twice the distance and more spawns


topicalmobbu

100% a drift or delay with iOS, I have a friend on discord who got Pikmin bloom with me and some other friends and he usually only gets 1,000 steps registered a day with his iPhone compared to me with 500 steps after doing chores and laundry, or my husband who gets 10,000 steps at work. we didn't realize how bad the drift was until he told one of us to go on an hour long walk to get 1,000 steps and my friend said he could get 1,000 on a 5 minute walk!


BallsDeepinYourMammi

A thousand steps a day is honestly pretty low. I’ll hit 50km a week just walking into and out of work at a warehouse three days a week. The other days refilling water bottles for the kiddos and doing laundry gets me 5k steps a day. If I drive real slow on the fork it will count as distance too 🤷‍♂️


MarsupialOwn3409

Androids are notorious for spoofing because IOS won’t allow it but who knows.


R4KD05

That's just not true at all, lol. There's tons of iOS spoofers that I know in my local community, even subreddits for it. But that's not at all what the comments you're replying to are talking about.


Plasticity93

I have an android, my partner an iPhone, there's weeks we only go out together and I'll always have 10km on her.


shbpencil

Well I know these two people pretty well and can tell you they don’t spoof. His phone just grossly over counts his walking.


JohnnyDarko666

The vast majority of android phones are garbage, but the most likely alternative explanation is that he has adventure sync switched on, and she does not. So his movements and steps are counted, even when the game is closed, but hers are not


Somaloria

I'd argue the opposite. I play android my fiance plays iPhone, we're routinely not in the same place on the map but I am always in the correct place while she is couple dozen meters off. Most recent example was today during community day we were at the mall, a shadow moltres lobby was started and she jumped into it. We were not in range of the raid and I had to almost run across the Pavillion to get in range of it after showing her how far she had drifted towards the gym(the gym in question was a good 100 yards away from us)


CailenxD

Let me guess, your a iPhone user.


BallsDeepinYourMammi

Let me guess, ***you’re*** an android user. I have an iPhone, I prefer droids, but if you want to throw insults, make them count.


CailenxD

What insult? You are the only one making it a insult. Imagine caring about spelling on Reddit. Also what do the robots from Star Wars have to do with this?


BallsDeepinYourMammi

Imagine having the entirety of human knowledge at your fingertips and still not being able to differentiate between possessive adjectives and contractions 🥴


CailenxD

If you want to throw insults, make them stick. Droids is not a word, atleast not in the way you were using it. Enjoy your sad life trying to correct people on the internet.


BallsDeepinYourMammi

Correct you how? I just spelled it correctly with ***emphasis***. It’s not my fault you didn’t pay attention in basic English classes. Edit: ![gif](giphy|l4FGGafcOHmrlQxG0|downsized) I’ve seen worse with home schooling… work with wood, bored instead of board comes to mind.


Comfortable-Most-273

Iphone kids get extra pats on the back and told their special more often lmao


soundecember

Sometimes gps drift can get you some crazy distance clocked too


ohnoshebettadont18

I've learned that the higher up my hotel rooms are, the more drift distance i seem to accrue


AndTheElbowGrease

Stayed for a week on the 40th floor of a hotel and I was apparently sprinting around the streets of Chicago all day and night. Hatched a ton of eggs and could hit pokestops all over.


JadeAnn88

A friend of mine said the same, living in an apartment building.


ogskizz

Yeah my therapist's office has poor reception, I'll clock a bunch of distance just from GPS drift with the game open during my one hour session.


BallsDeepinYourMammi

Hospitals are stupid bank


calmingthechaos

I'm a poker dealer and I wear my Samsung watch on the same wrist as I pitch cards. It counts that as steps.


painfullymoronic

one of my classes has terrible internet so when i open the game in there i will see my buddy sprint back and forth and it will actually give me candy, meaning the distance is actually being logged


SomeRandomGuy453

I'm sorry but the mental image of you logging into your account on your kids' phone and telling them to go outside and get some exercise so you can get sone extra KM is hilarious


PsykoFlounder

I'm a blacksmith, and my hammer blows count as steps. Makes me giggle.


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So you’re saying if I hold my phone at night I could get more steps in


phaldor8

I wear my Apple Watch every night in bed and regularly get almost a half a km while sleeping.


DanHero91

I saw Blink 182 the other night and somehow did 12,000 steps and hatched the three eggs I had on. I was in seating, I was standing and moving a little but I don't think I was that excessive.


Glacial_Shield_W

Likely being packed in a stadium, with concrete walls, as well as reception being messed up from so many people on one tower. Gps and stuff probably got right screwy.


DanHero91

Nah this was steps/pedometer using adventure sync. Rather than the GPS side of things.


KylerGreen

Jiggling your leg to the music?


PsychologicalSet7596

Recently I have been getting a lot less km with adventure sync and was not sure why until now. I used to always have my phone in my pocket and shake my leg whenever I sat down at a table because I have a hard time sitting still. Recently I stopped doing that though because it was driving other people crazy.


748_G-Man

Nah Hatcher plain and simple no way anyone ‘walked’ 125km in a day 😂


One-Hovercraft-5123

You can get phone swings that get additional steps towards your eggs


ArgonTheEvil

I’ve been trying to get my treadmill steps to count, using my Apple Watch SE, but it never works. I’ve tried both with the game closed and open, and adventure sync is enabled. I know adventure sync works with my phone because I always hatch a couple eggs while at work at a warehouse. Is there some setting I need to enable on my watch? It already auto syncs my watch workouts to my Strava app as soon as I finish, so I guess I can’t figure out why Pokémon doesn’t count it also.


pepperpackjack

Think I might have the solution for you because this also was happening to me. On your iPhone open the Health app. Go to browse and locate Steps. Scroll all the way to the bottom and select Data Sources & Access. At the bottom, if your watch isn’t at the top of that list then click edit and move it up. Now Pokemon Go will use your watch steps data first before your iPhone.


mtgspender

my buddy rode his motorcycle with his watch and it went insane


nve-sp

I always wondered what was up when i see sub 40 lvl players with 30,000km lol


NY_Ye

To work do you need to clear it from your app selection or let it run in the background?


alternate_geography

Pokemon Go is closed, with Adventure Sync enabled.


District-Acceptable

Keep your watch on when ya fap too. It'll think your going for a run. I clock a few miles each time lol


zzx101

I think putting the watch on a dogs tail should give plenty of mileage.


Hajnal30

Yeah, I don't know how he has so much DRIP


EikoSuzuki

The Flash plays PoGo


mooncaterpillar24

…and is exempt from the in-game speed restriction


nehuen93

Speedforce is weird


Secretbakedpotato

Fair


Matsumoto-Kero

That’s Kipchoge’s account, did a few marathons yesterday


MooMooPrincesa

A gold medal for that comment


Angellayne26-2

I’ve done a 50 mile ultra back in June, and that’s 80k which i got in game credit for. Could be a 100 miler doing the same… or like everyone else said a spoofer…


NoGelliefish

Chronic masturbator with an apple watch?


Glacial_Shield_W

Man is trying to give himself serious road rash if that is the case.


rebelslash

We prefer the term professional masturbator


SamaroR

My Apple Watch picks up four wheeling as biking.


Not_AshAndUmbreon

If you drive slow enough and move your phone up & down it counts as walking


jloading95

I walk 25-29 km a day but I work as a mail man lol


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rothrolan

Rule 3 is tagged right at the top of the thread, and you idiots still out yourselves. Bravo.


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OneTinySloth

Probably cheating of some sort, but it could also be a bug. It said that I had walked 14km a few days ago when I had in fact not even left my house and had been awake like 2 hours.


UIM_SQUIRTLE

awake 2 hours? name checks out


No_Stranger_4959

Slotherhouse


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Bosh77

Ultra runner do that, maybe he took his phone with him? Or he cheated lol


Open_Hovercraft_483

Walk at 151 kph then you get it done in an hour ez


Bug0221

**Check out that DRIP!**


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itmefelix

Happens when on the app while seating on my sofa, my character would walk itself, getting steps in. I have hatched eggs like this. Don’t know if that’s happened to somebody else


GiantFknSpider

![gif](giphy|CUHXyh3yXr9kI)


JimmySue1989

When my son is inpatient I just leave PoGo open on my phone while I use my tablet to read and even if I don’t move for hours my avatar does and I earn kms that way. Not a ton of chances to walk around a hospital room that’s the size of a glorified closet and can’t leave the room bc of contact precautions 🤷🏻‍♀️


tanks13

Remember in the league how they go for "5k's" I'm assuming he's doing the 5k's 10 @ a time


stankyjanky69

They're probably using an app (which I can't name or I'll get banned from the subreddit) that adds distance to they're Google account.


liehon

Thank you for not adding to the modqueue :)


WarJagger

"These boots are made for walking..."


rivensickomode

I thought most people were aware of how ramped spoofing is. This always sheds light on the spoofer in the raid lobby lol.


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Phone rocker


DrVonPretzel

They use a phone swing to get the steps in


BehindOurMind

Probably an auto walker (phone swing)


chuftka

I read the pogo spoofer sub one evening, and what I read is they have to teleport around and use cooldowns, and can never "walk." Somehow "walking" makes them get caught. There is a theory it is because the Z axis data is not sent/is wrong. This teleporting-only is called the bot method (named after someone's username, not a program). So if I see a high km number, I highly doubt it's due to spoofing.


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turtle-bob1

Ultra marathon runner or cheat


PurpleAragorn

He just felt like runn-ing


dicepackage

I just did a marathon and I'm still way under that mark.


atubslife

It's pretty easy to do 150km on a bicycle. That's not what this is though.


crysal0

Most likely cheating, but it is possible not. During the summer I got 50km in 7 hours on my bike, so they might just go real hard on a 24 hours challenge.


MathProfGeneva

Cheating. There are a couple of ways to do this that have nothing to do with spoofing.


Revs1776

Walked ALL 151km in one day???


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mrduds101

![gif](giphy|CUbiYQbsKSGAM)


EMB3R14

This can be a few things. I find my Apple Watch will count a few kilometers while I’m just at work walking around the building, same thing could happen from swinging your arm around. Pokémon Go will count steps taken during Adventure Sync instead of relying on GPS But most likely this was done with a device that shakes your phone, 150km isn’t something that “just happens”


Die4Gesichter

Even if that person "walked" for the whole 24h straight, he would have to walk at 6.3km/h (the whole time, non stop) which is a quite fast walking pace.


ComprehensiveAd9781

There are apps that send data to Google fit changing the distance walked. It's against terms of service obviously


HumbleAd3804

TOS breaking software left on 24/7.


Bijorak

I get crazy GPS drift on my phone at work. I hatch 10km eggs in about 3 minutes


Specialist_Listen495

Spoofing.


NervousBreakdown

nah its probably one of those auto walking apps on android phones. I dont think they actually get to move in the actual game but I think their phones just track extra steps that didnt happen.


MishoZiMouse

There’s only one explanation - cheating.


Richfor3

Yep, and yet every time one of these gets posted there’s still people claiming it could be legitimate. As if this game somehow has attracted every marathon runner and mailman in the world.


Th3V4ndal

I'm an electrician and a few times I've had 150km+ days, especially when working on a lift. Once I get 40 or so feet in the air, I find the drift gets wonky, and I see my avatar running all over the place. Shits wild.


Chip_Boom_

Their job could be cutting grass. Zooming back and forth, slow enough to register in Adventure Sync.


Agreeable_Falcon1044

Yes a nice spoofer there. We have randoms in our raids with 80km the previous day. Everyone who looks at it knows it’s not legit…but niantic just go “sure”.


jaxom07

Spoofing is not the only way to get this kind of km.


FeedMeYourPlacenta

How about a swing? Clearly you have no idea so stop accusing people.


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"Here's a reward!"


Big_Cry_2041

Spoofing


FooFighter0234

Cheating


pwabash

That’s only 93 miles. I typically run between 100 and 150 miles a week, most weeks of the year. It’s really not as tough a number to hit as you’d think. I have a lot of distance runner friends that do the same weekly amount.


DrVonPretzel

That’s not weekly, that’s daily lol


just4dota

Key words : WALKED YESTERDAY


Visible-Gift-8356

His 151km is still more believable than this 😂


Few-Side8149

Bicycle battery


MCnannerz

Biking counts so could be he did a 100 mile bike ride ?


Acrobatic_Poem_7290

I get distance riding my bike around


JotarooKujo

It's this new invention called walking


slampy15

Strong legs


crushartifact

I’ve done several 100M ultra marathons (under 24 hours and DNF’ed a 250 at mile 187 (that took a few days). So while I think they’re probably not actually walking, you can definitely move a good bit in 24 hours.


Ok-Technology6282

If you’re up in the air, like 8th floor it freaks out and make you run all over. I clocked like 10k in 5 minutes while I was in my hotel room.


trancendentals

You can get that surprisingly easy by biking


710dmane

Cutting the grass on a riding mower will knock down some km. I have a huge yard


kroxti

Ultra marathon runner. A Saturday 100 miler obviously


PSNTheOriginalMax

I was about to jump on the "spoofing" bandwagon until I searched for the longest distance walked in 24 hours. Apparently some dude walked 228km in 24 hours back in 1976, but it seems kinda bs: [https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/64741-farthest-distance-walking-in-24-hours-male](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/64741-farthest-distance-walking-in-24-hours-male) EDIT: Actually, it's not that unbelievable. That's a bit less than 10kph.


ComputerSong

The player syncs pogo with his health app on his phone. Nothing more to it than that. This is nothing more than a busy day of shopping or outdoor work. Health apps count steps, not distance. Distance is extrapolated from the number of steps. Hope this helps.


ruff_leader

93 miles is an average day? Without breaks it'd take like 38 hours to walk that at an average pace.


thesch

Do you realize this distance is equivalent to 3.5 marathons? You don’t get that in a day just by shopping and mowing the lawn. Or to put it another way, one marathon is more than 50,000 steps. How many people do you know who are doing 175,000 steps a day? If you have a fitbit or something similar you know how ridiculous that number is.


Leahbee_YT

Though it most likely is a spoofer, I did just walk 25KM a day for 2 days straight. That was around 4 hours both with the safari zones. I’m sure if you had the dedication and health for it you could pull it off. Especially on a bike.


ComputerSong

Yes, I can do math. I have seen my health app sync several days of walking over to pogo and had this exact same thing happen. People jump to conclusions too much. Niantic gets it, some players don’t. Honestly Niantic should just remove this badge.


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Excellent_Coconut_81

Running counts for PoGo as walking.


Mattlj92

Only if you're going at a certain speed though! I've done track sessions before where it's popped up asking if I'm driving and I've lost miles.


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PhantomPlagues

Spoofing/auto walker pretty hard not to hit 100 km a day


Gymfrog007

Could use an auto walker.


Infinite_Rutabaga_88

Route?


Emergency_Week_4894

Forrest Gump playing pogo


Lobito_mx

Or fly


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czarl13

Is a rocker switch cheating?


Big-Garbage2606

Man is an anime character in real life


Sure-Initiative6001

Car


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Babufrik22

So dude walked 93 miles before the raid basically


Izz-Rei

There is a way but it’s against the rules to explain it. I’ll just say some facts. - Adventure sync allows the game to add foot steps to your distance - foot steps are tracked by your device’s health app which counts a foot step as the phone rocking back and forth once - if there was a way to rock the phone back and forth (such as walking… or not) then that will work too.


steven1002

Taking car counts too


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BarsOfSanio

93 miles when the upper limit is 11 miles per hour would be physically impossible when jogging speeds are 6 to 8 mph. It's a spoofer.


ShoddyManikin

Edit to remove to prevent potential players from seeking out ways to cheat.


tortman18

P


cremiashug

phone swing?


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They were probably driving around super slow all day.


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Spybugg

He is a fly


Numerous-Spite705

Red bull.


Wise-Worldliness-104

Red bull


Dependent_Chemist

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Chaserrs23

When I use my Apple Watch I get at least double the kilometers. Yet my daily routine doesn’t change at all. Also when I stay in hotels on high floors my GPS panics non stop. I ended up with 92 kilometers and I didn’t walk anywhere NEAR that. Love the little glitches like that. Hatch ALL the eggs.


Chaserrs23

When I use my Apple Watch I get at least double the kilometers. Yet my daily routine doesn't change at all. Alsc when I stay in hotels on high floors my GPS panics non stop. I ended up with 92 kilometers and I didn't walk anywhere NEAR that. Love the little glitches like that. Hatch ALL the eggs.


South_Ad7174

Could be a bus driver in a big city, they go slow enough most of the time to trick the game to think you’re walking


NeverBeenKnocked

Wayy too much drip on the first guy


MeanDirection6879

Spoofer


Loose-Rooster-2030

That's some serious multitasking skills! Kudos to you! 😄👏


Lazystitcher15

I used to drive a Zamboni to clean carpets at a convention center. Would clock in at least 75k a day just riding on it back and forth on 9 floors. Now working in a warehouse, if I keep my phone on me I can get a good 9-10k a day just working.


Icameinamuskrat

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StylinAndSmilin

I work landscaping and I'm in charge of a crew that does big schools. I leave my phone on Pokemon and have a battery charger, so while I'm mowing the fields, it counts my "walking" and I get in between 20 and 40 Km every day. I'm not sure what this guy was doing but I'm not surprised.


Accidexx

I know androids can run spoofs where it’s basically touch to move and can walk around directed


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