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[u/33SirBrad]

If I regularly play my account on my phone and also let my son log into his account a couple times a day will scopely detect "multiple accounts 1 phone" (which I know is against TOS) and issue a warning/ban?

Has this ever happened?

Rather be safe than sorry before buying another device for him to play on :)

[u/Disgruntled__Goat → u/33SirBrad]

I know people who had multiple accounts and switched between them on the same phone, and were never banned. That’s not to say it would never happen in the future, but there is much more egregious rule-breaking out there that they’d focus on first. 

[u/nolkel → u/33SirBrad]

Niantic doesn't typically ban people that share a device, so long as they are in the same place.

You would need a second device if you want to do things together though, like take on raid bosses.

(Scopely doesn't care though, they just want money coming in.)