Scanner Overview

1. Map: The in-game map shows major roads and rivers to help you orientate yourself between
2. Agent Avatar: Your avatar represents your current location, which is only visible to you
3. Action Range: You can interact with Portals and dropped items within 40m range, inside the circle
4. Portal: Portals are points of interest where XM ingresses or enters our world. Resistance Portals are blue, Enlightened Portals are green, Machina Portals are red, and neutral Portals are grey
5. Control Field: Fields are created when three Portals are linked together to form a triangle. The Resistance and Enlightened battle for Mind Units (MU) by creating Fields
6. XM Bar: Shows your current XM storage, energy needed to perform in-game actions. The [+] icon allows you to top-up the bar.
7. AP Bar: Shows your Action Point (AP) progress to the next level. AP acts like your experience points.
8. Main menu: Tap to open the Main menu. Long-press to access Inventory, Attack, and COMM
9. Inventory: Displays your current number of items held and the Portal Keys usable.
10. Alerts: Displays the most recent notification or action. Tapping this will go into the Alerts menu.
11. Dispatch: Allows you to see current daily tasks and special event tasks.
12. Compass: Points to the north, or can be tapped to change your view automatically.
13. Layers: Tap to enable, invert, or disable viewing visited, captured, Scout Controlled Portals, Drones, and Portals that you have accessible Portal Keys for.
14. Agent name: Tap to view your game profile.

Pro Tip

Long-press on the map to bring up the Attack menu, or long-press on a Portal to bring up the Portal menu

Exotic Matter

A resource collected by the Scanner and drained with most actions made with the Scanner

Profile

Here you can view your badges (in-game achievements and collectables), as well as see your AP progress, level-up requirements,

1. Name: Your in-game username
2. Flair: Automatically shown next to your name if you are a CORE Subscriber or have Recursed
3. Level: Displays your in-game level
4. AP Bar: Shows your current progress towards the next level
5. AP progression: Shows your AP in numbers
6. Avatar: Your in-game avatar, which can be customised by tapping on the arrow next to it.
7. Level requirements: Shows what badges you need for the next level and how many have been achieved so far.
8. Recursion AP: Displays your current AP after a Recursion
9. All Time AP: Shows your total AP earned
10. Niantic Profile: View your Niantic Profile
11. Share: Creates a URL for other players to see your profile
12. Copy: Copy all stats

Main menu

1. Missions: View nearby Missions
2. Dronenet: Perform actions using your Drone
3. Dispatch: Complete daily and global tasks
4. Scores: View the local scoreboard to see how many Mind Units have been captured
5. Store: Purchase items to add to your inventory or profile.
6. Attack: A carousel giving quick access to XMP Bursters, Cubes and Virus’s
7. Inventory: View your owned items in categories and sorted by level
8. COMM: Open the Activity Menu

Activity menu

1. Activities: See actions taken by all users in a specified range.
2. Alerts: See all notifications when portals you own have been attacked, neutralised or had been interacted with Beacons.
3. Chat: Talk to fellow agents of your same team or all agents across both teams. See Chat for more information.
4. News: View updates from Niantic about noteworthy information on Ingress. Ranging from announcements of events, progress on global events and even details on in-game updates.