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…	0	8659	February 7, 2019
Implement a flag to top ten identifier users that do not want to tag them in observations web	115	1326	October 7, 2026
Remove “No” votes from the “Can the ID be improved” DQA when the Observation Taxon improves	17	207	October 7, 2026
Add a symbol to thumbnails on Identify when an observation includes text in the ‘Notes’ section web	17	252	October 7, 2026
Allow users to choose whether gifs (or videos in future) should run automatically web	18	454	October 5, 2026
Attribute observation field updates from taxon changes to iNaturalist rather than iNatters web	4	238	October 4, 2026
Switch from COL 2012 API to Checklistbank to reduce curator load for new taxa addition taxonomy , issue-made , curator	19	653	October 2, 2026
Add “unobserved_by_user_id=“ to filters in the apps mobile-app	7	1496	September 30, 2026
Display a confirmation message after clicking "Can the Community ID still be confirmed or improved?" in the DQA web , mobile-app	4	429	September 29, 2026
Sort projects in an umbrella project by descending alphabetical order or descending date created web	2	84	September 29, 2026
Image file names should be retained/kept intact upon upload	8	463	September 28, 2026
Prevent the deletion of checklist records that contain comments web	4	309	September 27, 2026
Identify page ; Observation page / Dropdown list of upper taxonomic levels web , under-review	8	1365	September 27, 2026
When an observation is open on the identify page and a textbox is active, pressing the escape key deactivates the textbox instead of closing the observation web	0	64	September 23, 2026
Increase max image size (from 2048 x 2048 pixels) under-review	63	7596	September 23, 2026
Add "like" button to comments on observations web , mobile-app	36	2141	September 23, 2026
Sort "My Observations" by New Species web , mobile-app	5	386	September 22, 2026
Stay within your iNat Network Affiliation domain when clicking links to other iNat Network sites web	25	2897	September 22, 2026
Make computer vision include hybrid taxa on an opt-in basis	91	3757	September 21, 2026
Page backwards as well as forwards in Identify web	27	432	September 19, 2026
Sort the Species tab in the collection project by least observed first web	3	133	September 16, 2026
Provide a non-comment way to let IDers know you received their helpful information under-review	37	5215	September 16, 2026
Make filtering by license default to include more permissive licenses as well on taxon photo browser pages web	5	92	September 14, 2026
API query search results should ignore underscores used for markdown	0	47	September 14, 2026
Display photo timestamp on hover over thumbnail in Identify mode web	6	213	September 14, 2026
Prioritize scientific name over synonym and names in other languages in species search issue-made	18	2294	September 14, 2026
Use stock photo derived from target species rather than broader general stock photo for Interaction->Visited flower of: web	3	226	September 13, 2026
Force computer vision to back off on the specificity of suggested IDs in regions with cryptic or hard-to-identify species identification , computer-vision	95	3391	September 13, 2026
Show joined projects in calendar web	0	84	September 11, 2026
Color code computer vision suggestions to reduce kingdom-level ID errors web , mobile-app	20	648	September 5, 2026

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…