Prototype via Niantic

To celebrate the release of the New Pokémon Snap on the Nintendo Switch, Pokémon Go will have an event for players to seek out particular Pokémon in the wild and have snapshots of them. The event kicks off on April 29 at 10 AM in your local time zone. There will be a series of quests that players tin complete before the end of the event, on May 2 at viii PM in your local fourth dimension zone, where y'all take to take snapshots of wild Pokémon.

A wild Pokémon volition be one you encounter in the overworld, correct before you lot capture them. All you have to practise is click on them, and your perspective volition zoom in on their location, and a Pokéball appears in forepart of you for you to capture them. When you are in this mode, at the pinnacle of your screen, you tin can click a pocket-sized camera. This allows y'all to take a picture of the Pokémon when you are attempting to catch it.

You'll then be able to accept a quick picture of them. If yous are in the AR mode of Pokémon Go, you lot'll see the surroundings behind them when you accept the snapshot. Y'all exercise non accept to have the AR fashion on to have pictures of these Pokémon, though. In one case you lot've taken the snapshot, you tin can choose to close out of the mode or capture the Pokémon.

When it comes to the New Pokémon Snap Celebration quests, you cannot use a Pokémon y'all've captured to take snapshots. You must exercise information technology of a wild Pokémon you lot find in the world.