One new way to interact with your friends in Pokémon GO is by giving Gifts. When you spin a Photo Disc at a PokéStop or Gym, you have a chance of collecting a special Gift. Although you can’t open these Gifts yourself, you can send them to someone on your Friend List. The Gifts contain a variety of helpful items and come with a postcard showing where the Gift was collected. Gifts can also contain a special 7 km Egg that, when hatched, reveals an Alola form of a Pokémon originally discovered in the Kanto region:
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