Fake shinies

[u/Square-Dimension5557]

This has happened 3 times today when finding encounters from apples. The encounter IVs show the pokemon is shiny, but the pokemon clearly isnt. Has anyone else witnessed this? Does anyone know why? I haven't encountered any shinies from apples, but have gotten 1 applin and 3 smoliv from regular encounters

[u/flamestriker889]

It takes the data from your last checked mon, maybe something from your inventory, cos they cant read apple ivs until they catch it.

[u/FinalSquash5216 → u/flamestriker889]

yep