Pokémon GO’s Sweet Discoveries event runs from Thursday, April 24, at 10:00 a.m. to Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. local time, and it will be fruitful! Trainers will discover apples in the wild—tap them, and you’ll be awarded with Sweet Apples, Tart Apples, or encounters with Pokémon—including Applin, if you’re lucky! Collect lots of Sweet Apples and Tart Apples to help you evolve Applin into Flapple or Appletun.

Look forward to these sweet bonuses during the event.

• 2× Candy for catching Pokémon.

• Increased chance to encounter Shiny Delibird and Shiny Skwovet.

• Increased chance to hatch Shiny Delibird, Shiny Cherubi, and Shiny Skwovet.

• Catching Delibird or Skwovet will award Berries.

• Increased chance for apples to appear at Mossy Lure Modules.

• 1/2 Egg Hatch Distance for first three Eggs hatched using the Pokémon GO Egg hatching widget.

The following Pokémon first discovered in the Galar region will make their Pokémon GO debuts!

• Applin

• Flapple

• Appletun

You can use 200 Applin Candy and 20 Tart Apples to evolve Applin into Flapple or 200 Applin Candy and 20 Sweet Apples to evolve Applin into Appletun.

Keep your eyes peeled for any of the following Pokémon appearing more frequently in the wild.

• Alolan Rattata

• Abra

• Bellsprout

• Delibird

• Gulpin

• Bidoof

• Munna

• Bounsweet

• Skwovet

• Snorlax

• Shuckle

• Komala

• Applin

Plus, the following Pokémon will be more likely to hatch from 7 km Eggs. If you’re lucky, you might even hatch a Shiny one!

• Delibird

• Cherubi

• Munchlax

• Skwovet

Research Appletun-ities

Event-themed Field Research opportunities will also be ripe for the picking, with tasks that award Stardust and encounters with event-themed Pokémon. Timed Research and Paid Timed Research will also be available. Rewards for Timed Research include a Mossy Lure Module, a Tart Apple, a Sweet Apple, and encounters with event-themed Pokémon. Paid Timed Research is available for US$2.00 (or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency) with rewards including two Mossy Lure Modules and encounters with event-themed Pokémon. If you’d like, you can purchase and gift tickets to Pokémon GO friends that you’ve achieved a Friendship level of Great Friends or higher with. Timed Research and Paid Timed Research tasks must be completed and their rewards must be claimed by Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. local time.

Get ready to make some sweet discoveries, Trainers!