To keep fairness in Pokemon Go, Niantic bans accounts doing dishonest activities. This page gives you the details of account banning: the reason why an account is banned, howto avoid getting an account banned, and how to recover an account banned mistakenly.
Here are examples of behavior which are subject to a penalty.
On the official website, Niantic notes about cheating, hacking, and dishonesty as below.
The table below shows the popular unofficial tools. These helps players see individual value of Pokemon, find Pokemon location, and do other activities in Pokemon Go. Some of those tools are already unavailable, such as PokeVision, due to Niantic's argument: those tools are same to cheating and hacking.
To use some of those tools, players have to connect their Pokemon Go account to tools, such as Pokemon Go Nexus. Since that behavior is subject to a ban, using tools requiring account connection is a player's own responsibility.
| SILPHROAD To see species stats & IV |
| Poke Assistant To build the best attacking team |
| PokeVision To track Pokemon |
| PokeLevel To see how many XP can be gained within the effect of Lucky Egg |
| Pokemon Go Nexus To see IV of all Pokemon in storage at once |
| Pokeball Aimer To throw a Pokeball accurately |
What happens when a player does cheating, hacking, and other dishonest activities are not exactly revealed. An account may be closed or assigned punishments. The followings are penalties considered as being confirmed.
As Niantic said as below, a player can send a request to make a banned account available to use again if the account banning is failure. Additionally, a player may be able to solve penalties by logging in little later.
A player may be able to re-login by opening the app later. The length of time is not exactly sure though.
If your account is not activated even if logging in later, you may want to submit a request to Niantic. You can submit a request from the link below.
