***Editor’s Note: The Sightings feature is available to all players. The Nearby feature is currently in testing in San Francisco.***

After the closedown of the various third-party Pokémon Go tracking sites and the removal of the game’s own tracking system which had been bugged for a while with the dreading “three footstep bug”, fans of the game were not pleased. They wanted Niantic to quickly fix the game so they would be able to track down Pokémon in the wild again and it seems like Niantic have acted and are beginning the roll out a new tracking system to replace the old one that they called “flawed”.

At the moment only some users have been updated to the new system which contains two different types of tracking; Sightings and Nearby. Sightings is the more general of the two, simply showing the Pokémon that is near next to a patch of grass with no indications about how far away the Pokémon is or in which direction. Tapping the icon simply brings up the message “Find these Pokémon in the wild!” Nearby is more focused around PokéStops in the game, showing each Pokémon in front of a picture of the PokéStop that they are nearby. Tapping each one will take you to the overhead map and place down a marker to indicate their location. If the Pokémon despawns before you can find it, the game will notify you that the Pokémon has fled.

Given that it’s not with everyone yet, it does seem like Niantic is doing a controlled bit of user testing for the feature before they release it widely. What do you think? Let us know.