How to Use Shared AR Experience with Friends in Pokémon Go

Get ready to say "Cheese" and take pictures with your and your friends' Pokémon. Niantic has officially completed the rollout of the Shared AR Experience in Pokémon Go. All Trainers Tier 2 and above can now use this new feature.

This new feature allows you to spawn your Pokémon Buddy with your friends' Pokémon Buddy. Using your phone's AR, you and your friends can take photos of your Pokemon together.

Since the feature is still very new, many gamers are still looking to use it. Luckily, the official Pokémon Go Twitter account has shared an instructional video that explains how to use the shared AR experience.

How to Use Shared AR Experience with Friends in Pokémon Go

UPDATE: Say “Shared AR Experience –” Um… CHEESE!!! 😄 The shared AR experience is now over! It is now live for Level 2 Trainers and above. Celebrate this moment with a #GOsnapshot of you, your buddy, your friends and their buddies! 📸 pic.twitter.com/3wu4TfnFpc

— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) December 21, 2019

The first thing to do is get a small group of your friends together and make sure you're all in a well-lit area. One of you will need to go to your contact profile and tap the AR Experience icon; the icon should be right next to the Play button in the contact profile. That person should then host a group by pressing the “Create Group QR Code” button.

A Buddy Group QR code will then appear on that person's phone. Up to two other players can scan this QR code with their phone and join the party. When the other two players have scanned the code, the host only needs to press “GO” to begin.

From there, all three players must hold their devices upright. Each will then aim their device at a single object in the room. The video claims that a chair or table will function as an object. The three players will then have to walk left and right around the object in a 180° rotation. A tick will appear on the screen if everyone has successfully synced.

Yellow footprints will start appearing on the screen; tapping on the footprints will spawn your Pokemon Buddy. If the other two players in your party have also done everything correctly, all three Pokémon Buddy should appear on the screen together.

Once all the Pokémon are on screen together, you can now take all the photos you want together.