Initial Briefing

Ingress is "a competitive, team-versus-team strategy video game played in the real world."This is what the National Intelligence Agency (NIA...

How to Move

To move in Ingress, you need to move in the real world. For example, you can walk, cycle, or use an assistive mobility device to collect XM ...

Understanding the Scanner

Get to know the following six features on the Map screen: Agent Avatar: Your avatar represents your current location, which is only vis...

The Portal Network

Portals are points of interest where XM ingresses or enters our world. They often manifest as public artwork or sites of cultural significan...

Hacking Portals

Hack Portals to acquire items and resources, like Resonators, Power Cubes, and XMPs. Hacking friendly or same-Faction Portals will slightly ...

Glyph Hacking

Building on simple Portal hacks, Glyph Hacking is a more challenging form of hacking that can extract greater hack output. As far as we...

Capturing Neutral Portals

Deploy Resonators on neutral (grey) Portals to capture them for your Faction:Get within 40m range of a nearby PortalOn the Map screen, tap t...

Creating Links and Fields

The prime objective of both the Enlightened and the Resistance is to capture as many human Mind Units (MU) as possible. As an Ingress Agent,...

Agent Profile

Your Agent Profile displays your Access Points (AP), your Access Level and level up requirements, your medals, and your Agent stats. Access ...

Leveling Up

Your experience in Ingress is measured in Access Points (AP). As a new recruit, you will find it easier to gain AP and level up more quickly...

Dispatch

Dispatch contains daily Bounties and long-form events or Campaigns. Every day at 00:00 local time on the DAILY tab, Agents receive a new Ass...

Dronenet

The Drone Network or Dronenet enables Agents to remotely hack any Portal visible on the Drone Footage screen. Unlike standard Portal hacks, ...

Kinetic Capsules

The Kinetic Capsule is a unique type of Capsule that lets you refine items into rarer or more desired items using kinetic energy through 8km...

Remote Recharging

Having a Portal Key in your inventory allows you to remotely recharge Resonators deployed on that Portal. Portal Keys can be obtained by hac...

Attacking Opponent Portals

Opponent Portals are Portals controlled by the opposing Factions. You can neutralize opponent Portals by firing weapons, like XMPs and Ultra...

Connecting with our Community

Ingress can connect you to a global community of active Agents in your area and around the world. In addition to local Portal activity, aler...

Connecting with Ingress

Connect with Ingress@ingress on Twitter@NianticOfficial on TelegramIngress on Facebook Connect with Other AgentsCOMMNiantic Campfire/r/Ingre...

Glossary

AP (Access Points) - Points earned as you accomplish tasks such as claiming Portals, creating Links, and forming Fields.Cooldown - A ma...