Pokémon GO currently allows for up to 450 friends to be added to Trainers’ friends list, and if you have a few hundred people it can be difficult to navigate the list. It can be even more difficult if you’re working towards Best Friends with another Trainer and aren’t quite sure who you have and haven’t interacted with each day.
If you’re like me and have this problem, this article is for you! I’ve recently found many tips and tricks that have helped me navigate my friends list and interact with friends easier, which I will share with you…
Friends List Search Strings
There are 4 search strings that are rather unknown which you can use to find certain characteristics easier. These include: ‘giftable’, ‘interactable’, ‘lucky’ and ‘friendlevel’. Let’s have a look at these individually.
Interactable
If you search ‘interactable’ in your friends list search bar, it will show all the Trainers you are yet to interact with on a certain day. Interacting with another person can involve trading, gifting, opening gifts, battling against, or raiding with another Trainer.
If you interact for 1 day you reach Good Friends, 7 days of interactions is Great Friends (rewarding 10,000XP), 30 days of interactions is Ultra Friends (rewarding 50,000XP), and 90 days of interactions is Best Friends (rewarding 100,000XP). So it goes without saying that if you are interested in getting more XP, checking who you haven’t interacted with and doing so is a big help.
Pairing this with the nicknaming feature can narrow this down, but I’ll speak on this later in the article.
Giftable
Although similar to ‘interactable’, the ‘giftable’ search string shows anyone you have not sent a gift to on any certain day. This can come into use if you have opened your maximum gifts on a certain day and still need to send gifts to other Trainers who you still haven’t interacted with.
Lucky
The ‘lucky’ search string is probably the most widely known search item and is self-explanatory in that is shows any Trainer you have a Lucky Trade with. This can be useful if you’re just curious of who you are still lucky with and get to complete the trade. However, if you’re next to someone and ready to do a Lucky Trade, admittedly you’re probably just going to search their Trainer name anyways.
Also, for anyone who doesn’t know what Lucky Friends is, once you become Best Friends with someone and continue to interact you have a small chance of becoming Lucky Friends and getting a Lucky Trade – a trade for guaranteed Lucky Pokémon. Even more reason to use the giftable and interactable searches and get those interactions in!
Friend Level
If you search ‘friendlevel’ followed by any range of numbers from 1 to 4 you can see your friends at any particular level. ‘friendlevel1’ shows Good Friends, ‘friendlevel2’ shows Great Friends and so on… 3 for Ultra and 4 for Best. However, you can also add a hyphen (-) to show a range, for example, ‘friendlevel3-4’ would show anyone from Ultra to Best and ‘friendlevel1-3’ would show anyone from Good to Ultra and so on.
Nicknaming Trainers to interact with daily
*This is not a search string, it is a nickname tip you have to do yourself (details below)*
I find that the nickname system is quite underutilized and can be very helpful for quick interactions. For example, I nickname all the people I want to interact with as “Daily”, so that I can simply search ‘Daily‘ in the search bar and a list of people who I aim to reach Best Friends with, and do this much quicker than just scrolling.
If you combine this with the ‘Interactable’ search before with your nickname, in my case searching “Interactable & Daily”, can help me find all the people I still need to interact with each day so I can easily open/send gifts, raid with them to get that daily interaction done.
However, I must mention there is currently a limit for nicknaming people in quick succession. I see it as a pointless limit, but it is there, and if you are trying to nickname a bunch of people quickly you can only apply 20 nicknames before you have to wait around 2 hours to continue.
Blue Circle around Trainer image
When you interact with another Trainer for the day, they will show a blue glowing circle around their Trainer image to indicate that you have interacted for that day, whether that be opening/sending a gift, trading, battling each other or raiding together. This can be very helpful as you can acknowledge you have already interacted and save your gifts for the next day to interact again. If you use the ‘Interactable’ search string as mentioned previously this won’t be as useful but still good to know!
Order by…
This is fairly obvious but also worth mentioning that you can also always order your friends list alphabetically, by online status, by friendship level, etc., but that is still quite clunky to scroll through everyone.
However, here’s some specific cases when using different order by functions can be significant:
- Raids – Order by ‘online’ to see who is active and may want your raid
- Gift Interactions – Order by ‘gift’ or ‘can receive a gift’
- Recent – Order by ‘recent’ if you’re trying to nickname new adds quickly or trying to remove recent adds
I hope this helps with navigating your friends list and best of luck with your friendship interaction grinds!
