The Apple iPhone X offers several helpful features that are beneficial to mobile gamers, including its OLED display and the improved performance of the A11 chip. However, users are now discovering that the phone actually has an adverse effect on one mobile game in particular.

Pokemon GO players are now beginning to report that the game is significantly harder to play on the iPhone X. In a post on Reddit, one disgruntled player explains that due to the design of the iPhone X screen (it is edge-to-edge and doesn't have a traditional home button), developer Niantic has changed the way that battles look in the game. Instead of expanding the visible area, it appears that Niantic has simply zoomed in on it instead. This cuts off the left and right areas that are visible when Pokemon GO is played on other devices.

Because of this change, legendary Pokemon in the game are much more difficult to catch. "iPhone X users essentially run out of screen real estate trying to swipe outside the Pokémon hit box far enough to hit a curve ball in the center of the screen," explains the player. It is especially difficult to catch Kyogre, which is the latest legendary Pokemon to be added to the game.

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Pokemon GO on iPhone X (left) versus Pokemon GO on other devices (right).

Moreover, players have noted that Pokemon GO's AR+ features are not a solution to the issue. Frustrated fans explain that AR+ is currently very buggy and that not only does it not work properly, but also when it glitches it can make it even more difficult to catch Pokemon. The AR+ issues and the iPhone X zoom makes this a double whammy that players are fed up of dealing with.

18 months into the Pokemon GO life cycle, players are well used to the game's teething issues by now. A running joke within the community is that when a new feature is made available, it can take several weeks for all of the kinks to be ironed out. For example, Niantic is still trying to fix the game's EX Raid battles, and this feature has been in testing for several months now.

But just because fans are used to it, that doesn't make this situation any less angering. It's unclear whether Niantic is aware of this particular problem. It may be focused on other, pre-existing issues with the game, for instance. Nevertheless, iPhone X users will be hoping that the developer will issue a fix soon.

Pokemon GO is available for Android and iOS devices.

Source: Reddit