Pokemon is a massively popular franchise with millions of players globally. It makes millions of dollars on licensing deals alone with the Nintendo Switch and the developers of the massively popular Pokemon Go being some of the major sources of revenue for the franchise. There are millions of pokemon players spread out all across the globe and they are enjoying their games on various different devices all of which can sometimes malfunction or they can lose their progress on any of the devices. In order to mitigate this data loss, the company released the Pokemon Home application to make sure that all the game data was synced in one cloud location under one registered username and password. In this article, we are going to be taking a look at Pokemon Home communication error: Fixes & Workarounds.
Pokemon Home was released on iOS and Android to consolidate the platforms of the games and make it possible for all players to link their various pokemon games on various devices. If the device could access the internet and was connected to a pokemon account, it can be backed up under this app and makes it possible for players to switch devices and download their progress and resume playing from where they stopped on the other device. In other words, it was a cloud solution to make sure that there is no loss of data between pokemon games associated with one particular pokemon account.
Pokemon Home communication error: Fixes & Workarounds
Unfortunately, like everything that was released in 2020, this app had various server issues with it not being able to handle the load of players that downloaded the app and registered their accounts with it. When this happens, the error message usually displayed was the communication error message which meant that the app was not able to communicate with the server. Luckily, there is a pretty easy fix to this issue and it can be implemented regardless of the platform in which you want to game.
If you happen to be on iOS or Android, the problem was seen to be the same. With modern technological advancements, it is possible for phones to intelligently offer to use built-in biometrics to secure the app. It was noticed that this biometric authentication that was being done by the phones was the cause of the issue and players are hence recommended to use their passwords and usernames manually to make sure that there is no issue and their information reaches the server. If the error persists even after manually entering the credentials, try reinstalling the application.
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