Tracking was likely changed the way it was due to data and server issues, so they removed it until those things can be sorted. Also, a programmer friend of mine told me that cheating utilities and websites like pokevision can open up security issues, and they don’t solve the core problem anyway. The battery saver function on the iOS version, iirc, was removed because it was causing a lot of crashes and thus was doing more harm than good. Other things caused in the update like catch/flee rate could easily just be bugs that aren’t supposed to happen. (And the curving without prompt thing has always happened to me, tbh; it’s annoying as hell.)
I could be wrong on some of this, but either way, please calm down. It’s frustrating, I know, but in the meantime at least the app is more stable, and honestly I’d rather have that than have all the nifty features I love while dealing with a bunch of other problems. Hopefully the upcoming updates will fix things up, at the very least partially.
(and I, for one, am rather happy that I no longer have to scroll all the way down a laggy info screen just to transfer my spare pokes for candy.)
About the battery saver:
It was removed because it didn’t work. iPhones have LCD screens. Which a means power consumption isn’t lowered by making it all black with a simple logo. The trade off? Pokemon go now functions using background refresh. Egg hatchers will be happy to hear this as this now means as long as the phone is on and not locked, it’s still counting steps/distance travelled even if you navigate away from Pokemon go. It won’t notify you of nearby Pokemon like the battery saver however.
Battery saver likely won’t be coming back for iOS users because it never worked in the first place.
Yeah, on top of that, I’m 905 sure everyone is playing up the spawn rate issue since they made it so that Pidgeys and Rattatas aren’t literally everywhere.
And the catch and flee rates don’t actually feel like they’ve changed (although they DID improve the UI for throwing Pokeballs, as they curve MUCH less easily now, which is good). They also didn’t actually point out in the update notes that they were changing the Pokemon catch rates, just the UI, so that’s yet another reason why that’s probably not actually a proper change they made.
Everything else? Flat-out did not work, so they yanked them to either fix them or to get rid of a feature which didn’t work in the first place.
Contrary to what you might think, Niantic does actually know what they’re doing. Their major issue is that they’re only staffed by 20 or so people, so they’re working as hard as they can, but you have to be patient with them. Don’t jump down their throats when they’re trying iron out the rough patches in the game, please. It’s still a wonderful, fantastic game. They’re working on it, just be patient for a bit while they work on things.
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