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	8256	August 23, 2019
Allow curators to customize what appears in Flags section of Home / Dashboard page web , curation	1	56	April 10, 2026
Have leading subspecies IDs update Observation Taxon below species, even when coarser IDs present	21	502	April 9, 2026
Require ticking a checkbox when editing an observation to protect location data web , mobile-app	4	326	April 6, 2026
Make captive/cultivated not automatically "no ID needed"	200	12208	April 5, 2026
Option to remove leaderboards from projects	23	1507	April 4, 2026
Distinguish observation quality grade (Casual, Needs ID, Research) with different colors on maps (at least on Taxon Pages) web	7	582	April 1, 2026
Photo detail endpoint for API under-review	7	706	March 31, 2026
Missing infrageneric taxonomic ranks: supersection, series	4	128	March 29, 2026
Restrict editing of Taxon Links that use a generic (templated) format web , curation , taxon-page	1	110	March 28, 2026
Assign metadata to individual photos such as flowers, leaves, fruit	4	1197	March 26, 2026
Add "Date Added" range as a requirement option to collection projects web	11	1330	March 25, 2026
Track and report time spent on iNat web , android-app , mobile-app	4	362	March 24, 2026
Add Collection Project requirement that allows one to include observations based on added-on date	2	143	March 23, 2026
Match Page Title formatting to live post in journal "preview" mode web	0	53	March 20, 2026
Find your own (orphaned) photos uploaded to iNaturalist	12	2539	March 19, 2026
CC0 observations could/should be also credited in taxon view web , implemented	5	315	March 17, 2026
Search and filter identifications web	58	11734	March 17, 2026
Simple Sortable Index for Journal Posts web	4	183	March 17, 2026
Add an Overview of a Profile's Identifications	12	336	March 17, 2026
Allow API authentication without write access api	6	692	March 16, 2026
Don't let an observation attain Research Grade if its location is very imprecise	198	9147	March 16, 2026
When all sibling taxa have globally obscured taxon geoprivacy, the parent taxon should be automatically obscured	5	533	March 16, 2026
Embed Observations in Project Journal projects , journal-posts	7	387	March 12, 2026
Add "record starting 10 seconds ago" android-app , audio-observations , mobile-app	16	759	March 10, 2026
View true locations on maps for observations with trusted hidden coordinates web , mobile-app	55	6664	March 7, 2026
Create a new taxon rank for iNaturalist: the species group under-review	75	7078	March 6, 2026
Add feeds showing when new species are observed web , under-review	10	741	March 5, 2026
Graph time sighting data on iNat on animal species pages	16	1817	March 4, 2026
Allow some non-leaf taxa to be added to the CV model	23	797	March 4, 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…