Feature Requests

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Feature Requests category - please read before posting! Use this category to post new feature requests for iNaturalist, and to vote for existing feature requests. Requests To make a feature request, start a new topic with the request as the topic’s title. Please take a minu…	3	7710	August 23, 2019
Add extra confirmation step when agreeing with IDs on own observations under-review	82	5748	September 1, 2025
Addressing "loading metadata" hangs for low bandwidth users	15	185	September 1, 2025
Rename "Loading Metadata"	12	1587	August 31, 2025
Create a "Draft mode" for uploaded observations web , android-app , very-challenging , mobile-app	64	6575	August 31, 2025
In cases where the CV is not "pretty sure" of anything, offer a suggestion of a higher taxa under-review	11	1455	August 31, 2025
Require observers to manually select an answer to "Organism is wild?" during large events mobile-app	16	382	August 31, 2025
Disable DQA for observations identified as Homo sapiens	24	901	August 29, 2025
Allow taxon curators to edit taxon names, reducing "pointless" taxon changes for fixes like epithet ending changes or adding hybrid symbols web , under-review	38	4564	August 29, 2025
Change to the way opting out of Community ID works(was: (Almost) always display community ID)	9	1457	August 28, 2025
Triple-tap the screen as an alternative method to take photos seek	2	166	August 27, 2025
Expand the Similar Species tab into an editable identification guide	66	4245	August 26, 2025
Computer Suggestions: use disagreements as a measure for difficult taxa	8	934	August 26, 2025
View true locations on maps for observations with trusted hidden coordinates	50	5923	August 22, 2025
Have leading subspecies IDs update Observation Taxon below species, even when coarser IDs present	18	294	August 22, 2025
Incorporate basic image editing tools (crop, rotate) web , android-app , mobile-app	46	6233	August 20, 2025
Automatically add a spectrogram view to observations with sounds under-review	53	6202	August 19, 2025
Differentiate between indoor and outdoor captive/cultivated observations	15	391	August 19, 2025
Implement "taxonomic view" for observations search page	22	3677	August 18, 2025
Automatically obscure observations marked as "human" implemented	14	1604	August 17, 2025
Share observations between users very-challenging	78	8521	August 17, 2025
Option to use OpenStreetMap in the app android-app , mobile-app	4	290	August 15, 2025
Real Time Computer Vision in iNaturalist android-app , implemented , mobile-app	10	2034	August 14, 2025
Filter option to hide own observations in "Explore" mode web , android-app , implemented , mobile-app	14	1199	August 14, 2025
Change photo and observation license(s) in the apps android-app , mobile-app	6	872	August 14, 2025
Include sort order options in Explore in the app android-app , implemented , mobile-app	5	670	August 14, 2025
Make iNat record number easily available on mobile app android-app , implemented , mobile-app	8	672	August 14, 2025
View map for Projects on the mobile apps android-app , implemented , mobile-app	7	806	August 14, 2025
Choose common names language and place in the app android-app , implemented , mobile-app	13	3507	August 13, 2025
Reduce clicks to make it easier to take multiple photos in app android-app , implemented , mobile-app	20	1435	August 14, 2025

About the Feature Requests category - please read before posting!

Use this category to post new feature requests for iNaturalist, and to vote for existing feature requests. Requests To make a feature request, start a new topic with the request as the topic’s title. Please take a minu…