Linking up with fellow trainers remotely is more important than ever right now, and this recurring error can prevent that from happening.

There’s no getting around the fact that Pokémon GO has been a huge success. The mobile game celebrated its fourth birthday this month and is currently on track to have its most successful year to date. However, as is this case with any and all games that require updates as time passes, Pokémon GO has had its fair share of problems.

Although Niantic can sometimes take a while to fix a problem or add a feature trainers are clamoring for, once that problem is fixed or feature is added, that’s it. However, one error, in particular, continues to rear its head no matter how many times Niantic thinks it may have solved the problem. The “failed to get friends list” error.

The error, which often appears as “error 0”, tends to crop up at the least opportune times. For example, it was thrown back into the spotlight during this past weekend’s GO Fest. Not great as the event took place digitally and interacting with others was key to its success. Niantic was aware of the problem and it may have gone away by the time you read this. However, history dictates that it will return.

As the description of the error implies, it prevents trainers from accessing their friends list. That means no giving gifts, no trading Pokémon, and no inviting to Raids. If and when the error should arise again, we would love to arm trainers with some sort of quick fix while they wait for Niantic to deal with it on the backend. Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any such thing.

In our experience, restarting the app seems to do the trick on most occasions. However, if time is of the essence, such as when a Raid is about to begin or end, that isn’t ideal. On rare occasions, the only way we have been able to get around the error is by uninstalling and then reinstalling the app. Even less ideal, of course, but that might be the only solution, for now at least.

Source: Dot Esports

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