[1000112756] What does it mean under review?? Is it going to be rejected?

Keep in mind once a wayspot is accepted, you can add additional photos of it. These don’t seem to go through the same ML scrutiny, but should still be of the wayspot. So in this case I’d take a nice photo of the playground equipment.

This means that Niantic is reviewing this instead of the community. It is nothing to worry about, and completely normal. I am happy when I see this, because it usually means a faster decision for me =)

Thank you for encouraging me…

[image] YuJun4764: Is it going to be rejected? I don’t have a lot of hope for this one since that photo has people and clutter in it. But being pulled into in house review is not a for sure rejection.

As you can see, it’s a picture taken at a night volleyball match. But I can change it if asked.

There is no way to change a photo while in review. I just didn’t want to tell you that it would be accepted when I am not sure the photo meets criteria from the thumbnail. If they do reject it, you can take a better photo and submit it again. Hoping they accept.

Ohh, it means I can only hope that it’ll get accepted.

It shouldn’t be accepted. Youve got a child’s profile in that image. That’s not good.

BTW, I submitted a bug report to have the help pages updated, as Under Review used to be In Voting with the Niantic logo next to it. I think they may have changed it to Under Review with the Niantic logo to make it clearer that staff is reviewing instead of the community. [image] O…

Sorry to hear it has been rejected. If you are able to get to the Volleyball pitch again during the day and without any people / animals in the frame of the images, it stands a better chance of acceptance. Alternatively, if there is a entrance sign that you can submit, that would just as valid.

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cyndiepooh January 25, 2025, 5:10pm 12

I was just reading another post where submitting the sign led to success:

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