Request Your Agent Name As Your Niantic ID Today

NianticOfficial

Agents, 

We are excited to begin the Niantic ID username request process. Your Niantic ID is your primary, unique, and public username identity across your Niantic Account. Niantic ID replaces your Niantic Profile, which is linked from your Ingress Agent Profile. If you’d like to use your Ingress Agent name as your Niantic ID username, you can make your request at https://nianticlabs.com/reserve-nianticid  

Please note that the Niantic ID username request process is first come, first served. If another player uses your username in a different Niantic game, then they may be able to request this as their Niantic ID username. You are not guaranteed your Ingress Agent name as your Niantic ID username.

About Niantic ID

You must select one of your existing Niantic game usernames as your Niantic ID username; you cannot suggest or create a new Niantic ID username with free text input. Your Ingress Agent name as well as all of your other Niantic game usernames will not change. In the future, your Niantic Profile username will be updated to your selected Niantic ID username.

Check out the Niantic blog for more information on Niantic ID. 

— The Niantic Identity, Trust, and Support Team

NianticThia

Hi Agents,

Questions related to Niantic ID should be directed to Niantic Support (at least for now) as these are seen as account-related (not game-related) and not posted here in the forums. You can contact support via Ingress, Pokémon Go, or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Include screenshots of any errors or examples of what you are seeing and have questions about.

That said, I've tried to get answers to a couple of common questions/comments I saw around the Ingress community (not just here on the forums) and I hope it helps.

My Niantic ID isn't using capitalization.

The team is aware of the issue and asks that you go ahead and claim your codename if it is the correct spelling regardless of capitalization.

What is it pulling my username options from?

It's pulling from Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Not necessarily in that order - I didn't ask which order they're being shown.

You cannot write-in a username at this time. Edited to add: There will be opportunities to choose a brand new Niantic ID or change your existing ID in the future. This current process is only for those that want to claim a Niantic ID for an existing username.

It didn't give me an option to choose a username.

From what I'm told / my understanding, there are a couple of reasons this could happen.

1) There is only one Niantic game associated with the email address you signed into the Niantic ID request form with. In that case, it auto-assigned the username associated with that email address. If it's not the username you expected, you may be using more than one email address to sign into Niantic games. You cannot write-in a username at this time. Edited to add: There will be opportunities to choose a brand new Niantic ID or change your existing ID in the future. This current process is only for those that want to claim a Niantic ID for an existing username.

2) If you are a part of the Niantic Chat beta, the Niantic ID will merge with the profile made with Niantic Chat. The request form will seem to not work for you (provide no options) because the system sees you as having already selected your Niantic ID. I'm told there will an option to change this at a later time. Edited to add: There will be opportunities to choose a brand new Niantic ID or change your existing ID in the future. This current process is only for those that want to claim a Niantic ID for an existing username.

I need help! It's not working! Something else!

Questions related to Niantic ID should be directed to Niantic Support (at least for now) as these are seen as account-related, not game-related. You can contact Ingress, Pokémon Go, or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite support. Include screenshots of any errors or examples of what you are seeing that you have questions about.

Edited to add: There will be opportunities to choose a brand new Niantic ID or change your existing ID in the future. This current process is only for those that want to claim a Niantic ID for an existing username.

NianticThia

Hello!

There is an FAQ up on the Niantic ID site - you can find more info here: https://nianticlabs.com/reserve-nianticid/faq

Please reference the FAQ for up-to-date info from the team related to Niantic ID.