In Ingress, you choose a Faction to battle with and take control of Portals, or points of interest in the real world. Explore our privacy features that put you in control.

Your Ingress Settings

You can access your Ingress settings by opening the Main Menu and tapping the Settings icon in the top right corner. In your Ingress Settings, you can manage the following privacy features:

Your Campfire Settings

You can access your Campfire settings within Ingress by opening the Main Menu and tapping the Campfire Icon.

You can access your Campfire settings within the Niantic Campfire stand alone application by going to your profile and tapping the Settings icon in the top right corner. 

From there you can manage Message Campfire Requests

Your Niantic Profile

Your Niantic Profile is a section of your game-specific profile that displays your information from across Niantic apps on a single screen. 

You can access your Niantic Profile by tapping the Niantic logo in the top right corner of a Niantic game’s profile screen. Only you and your friends across all Niantic apps are able to view your Niantic Profile.

Your Niantic Profile shows recent achievements across Niantic apps, your lifetime distance walked, and the date at which you first began playing Niantic games. 

 You can also see other available Niantic games that you are not currently playing; tap on a game’s description to learn more about it.

Controlling What Others See

You can control how much information around certain aspects of your Niantic Profile is available for your friends to see. 

  • Last Played Date: To hide the date which you last used a Niantic app, navigate to the Settings menu of your Niantic Profile and tap “Let my Friends see info about the last time I played Niantic Games.”

  • Player Username: To hide the username for various games, navigate to the Settings menu of your Niantic Profile and tap “Let my Friends see my usernames from all Niantic Games.

Connecting your Accounts

By tapping on the gear icon in the top right corner of your Niantic Profile, you can see which accounts (e.g. Google Account, Facebook Account, or Apple ID) you have connected and make changes to these settings.