pokemon-go
Often times, I am able to spin a Pokestop, but due to server issues or other app troubles, am unable to tap on the bublbes containing the items to receive them.
Force closing the app at this point generally shows that the Pokestop has already been claimed, since its now purple.
If I leave these bubbles unpopped do I still receive the rewards from that Pokestop?
Based on a user's logs here for 3207 Pokestops (with all items unlocked), a rough estimate of the drop rates for items for Pokestops is as follows:
Since then, the drop rates have changed, as you can see here, however, the rates are pretty much the same, but with lower rates for Pokeballs and Revives and higher rates for Potions and Super Potions.
The results:
- Pokeballs: 599 (52.00 %)
- Great balls: 132 (11.46 %)
- Ultra balls: 37 (3.21 %)
- Razzberries: 82 (7.12 %)
- Total balls/berries: 850 (73.78%)
- Potions: 134 (11.63 %)
- Super Potions: 67 (5.82 %)
- Hyper Potions: 25 (2.17 %)
- Max Potions: 8 (0.69%)
- Total potions: 234 (20.31%)
- Revives: 62 (5.38 %)
- Max Revives: 6 (0.52%)
- Total revives: 68 (5.90%)
Not really, no. The only Pokemon that would be considered to be 'only hatched from an egg' are the region-restricted Pokemon. But, even then, if you were to travel to one of those countries, you could of course catch those as well. The region-restricted Pokemon can be seen here: What are the regional Pokemon?
Edit: I feel it is important to add that this is still a pretty hotly debated fact. There was a survey done which claims to conclude that out of approximately 40,000 hatched eggs, none of the Pokemon were region-locked Pokemon. However, there are some people who claim (with evidence) that they have hatched region locked Pokemon. Some of these people even claim to have spoken to the person who created the aforementioned survey, only to have that person dismiss their claims as lies or 'hacking'.
So, right now, I am leaning towards that it IS possible to hatch region-locked Pokemon, however, there is yet to be 100% conclusive evidence either way. You can see some of the threads on Reddit where users have made claims for both sides.
Edit 2: Just to be clear, the answer to the actual question at hand here still appears to be no, the edit above is just some additional information, some of which may be a bit beyond the scope of this question.
Best Answer
No, they do not need to be tapped. You can simply let them float to the top and disappear, or hit the "X" button and close it, and the items will be collected.
source: personal experience.