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	8709	February 7, 2019
Add curatorial buttons to more pages web , under-review	8	436	November 3, 2026
Make "expected nearby" include all areas where well documented on iNat	20	376	November 3, 2026
Implement a flag to top ten identifier users that do not want to tag them in observations web	136	2054	November 2, 2026
Add an optional photo prompt to the New Observation screen in the apps android-app , mobile-app	17	2061	November 1, 2026
Make it easier to insert photos into comments, journals, etc	26	2521	November 1, 2026
Allow API authentication without write access api	7	767	October 31, 2026
Increase max image size (from 2048 x 2048 pixels) under-review	74	7938	October 30, 2026
Embed Observations in Project Journal projects , journal-posts	11	531	October 29, 2026
Add option to obscure observations only temporarily web , mobile-app	17	788	October 29, 2026
Display genus along with subgenus, section, etc web , android-app , mobile-app	50	4933	October 27, 2026
Submit a list of taxa when creating a Trip web	0	165	October 25, 2026
Export Lists to Trips web , lists	1	209	October 25, 2026
"Frequently associated with:"	9	443	October 24, 2026
Add a "Flag curator action" option for taxon changes	3	168	October 21, 2026
Switch from COL 2012 API to Checklistbank to reduce curator load for new taxa addition taxonomy , issue-made , curator	25	833	October 18, 2026
Stay within your iNat Network Affiliation domain when clicking links to other iNat Network sites web	26	2961	October 17, 2026
Provide a non-comment way to let IDers know you received their helpful information under-review	38	5308	October 16, 2026
Add Plants of the World Online (POWO) to external names search options taxonomy	15	3317	October 13, 2026
Add a symbol to thumbnails on Identify when an observation includes text in the ‘Notes’ section web	53	760	October 13, 2026
Add dark theme for mobile apps android-app , ios-classic-app	17	3273	October 12, 2026
Make dark theme for iNaturalist site	4	2020	October 12, 2026
Remove “No” votes from the “Can the ID be improved” DQA when the Observation Taxon improves	28	578	October 10, 2026
Use AI/vision language model to create a browse_photo filter for microscopy web	5	173	October 9, 2026
Automatically add DQA 'Yes' vote when adding more specific ID to RG observation at higher rank web , mobile-app , dqa	3	173	October 9, 2026
Find taxa when you type ranks like subsp., var., etc search	7	853	October 9, 2026
Show joined projects in calendar web	1	105	October 8, 2026
Allow users to choose whether gifs (or videos in future) should run automatically web	18	502	October 5, 2026
Attribute observation field updates from taxon changes to iNaturalist rather than iNatters web	4	251	October 4, 2026
Add “unobserved_by_user_id=“ to filters in the apps mobile-app	7	1508	September 30, 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…