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How to get rid of soft ban pokemon go

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Mia Kelly

Published Mar 24, 2026

If you were in New York and accidentally (or not) jumped to Germany, you should open Nox (or other app/phone), set your location to the initial one (in this case, New York) BEFORE opening Pokemon Go, and then open the game, thus being back where you started. Secondly, walk to a pokestop, spin it and close it.

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After that, launch Pokémon GO. Next, walk to a Pokéstop. As soon as you reach the Pokéstop, spin it and close it. While you are soft banned, you will not be able to receive any rewards. Keep on repeating this step until you are finally able to get your rewards as this means that you are no longer soft banned. The final step may take you 30+ tries.

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In a nutshell, what you want to do in order to try and get the new soft ban removed is to throw as many Pokeballs as possible (even up to 100 or beyond), without hitting or attempting to catch the Pokemon whatsoever.

Get on the encounter than wait two hours than catch it. Respect the cool down and you won’t get banned.

What you want to do is : Go to a pokestop on the location you want to be ! Open pokestop>spin it>close it . Repeat this until you get items from the pokestop, which means you are unbanned ! I didn’t belive too until i tried and it worked !

GPS Spoofing, traveling and traveling too fast (while in a moving car), or sharing accounts, will get you soft banned, up to 12 hours. There are two ways to check if you’ve been soft banned: Any Pokemon will instantly flee when you try to catch it; Players can’t loot from PokeStops; UPDATE. The limit is 3500 Pokemon/7 days on a rolling period

According to Pokemon GO trainers, a soft ban can last anywhere from just a few seconds to a few minutes or a few hours max. Redditor iamjli and others reported that spinning a Pokestop 40 times …

How long do you get banned for teleporting in Pokemon Go? Currently, you can get rid of a soft ban if you exit the game and wait for some time, depending on how far you teleported, the time may range from 15 mins to a few hours. The soft ban will also go away if you keep spinning the same pokestop for somewhere between 20 – 40 times.

Soft Bans – Do they go away? Is been nearly a month since I got penalized, apparently for using a texture mod, I am not into PvP but I used to do a lot of co-op, somewhere I read it is around 4 weeks for a soft ban to get re-checked but I am beginning to wonder, is a human in charge of that? because that would mean a lot more than 4 weeks I …