I agree it would be better without the bars, but people can always do a photo edit later. Depending on the game it is used in, the bars might not even show up after it's cropped. It's hard to tell on… (View Post)

You keep sating that, but there have been several examples on this forum of more recent appeals being accepted. I'm sure whoever wrote that for Niantic believed it, but there are examples to the cont… (View Post)

They probably took the photo in landscape mode. You can use Google Lens to do an image search if you think it is a third party image. This one looks acceptable to me, but maybe your screen is higher … (View Post)

I wouldn't reject just for being in landscape mode. You can still clearly identify the wayspots from the picture, they're not from a car, and no identifiable people. Photo edits can be used to fix th… (View Post)

If you still have any "In queue" you can do reviews to earn upgrades. Upgraded submissions usually go through pretty quickly. I'd say less than a week, but there's always a random outlier w… (View Post)