I often crop or rotate phone photos in my phone photo album before I upload them into iNat. By default, iNat sorts them by date/time modified, which separates photos I have edited from ones that I haven’t, if I took more than one photo. It is possible to manually change the sort order each time you …

Hi, welcome to the forum! Not quite sure if this answers your question, but - when you drag and drop a set of photos into the web uploader, it should retain the order that they are sorted in the folder on your computer. So if you have a set of photos: a.jpg b.jpg c.jpg Make your folder sorted by…

Thanks! Doesn’t really solve the problem I’m having in the Android app, though I think I can make this work by moving phone photos to my computer before putting them into iNat. I appreciate the help! Matt

Oof, missed the actual title of the topic, haha :)

Looks like when I use a 3rd party app to share photos to the iNat app (Astro file manager), it retains the order that I selected the photos. When I use the default Google Photos app photo browser (on a Pixel 5) it sorts by file date modified.

In the iNat app, after you select the plus sign to add a new image, it takes you to the Camera screen and shows a series of images. On that screen, you can change the sort order by clicking the three dots at the upper right hand corner of the screen and selecting sort order. Alternatively, I find i…

[image] pholroyd: you can change the sort order by clicking the three dots at the upper right hand corner of the screen and selecting sort order. i think mpelikan already knows this, based on the comments in the original post: [image] mpelikan: Does anyone know a way to change the defaul…

Hi Matt! You may want to try sharing via third party app, which will generally order them as you have selected them in the observation. Also, if you haven’t tried it already, the iNat photo editing tools are quite good for simple edits. For my workflow I use the default photo app (Google Photos) to …

Thanks. Yeah, the problem is that in the Android app, iNat imposes its own default order regardless of how the photos are sorted in the Android folder. And overriding that order needs to be done for every photo that has been edited. It looks like Nate Marchessault has some useful suggestions below; …

Good tip. Perhaps amazingly, I haven’t yet run across iNat’s own photo editing capabilty.

If you select a photo you can hit the button that says “make 1st” and it makes it the first photo in the observation. Perhaps not the best solution as if you want to move multiple photos around you have to do some gymnastics, but if you only have 2 or 3 images it’s pretty useful.

Android app: change default order for sorting photos

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Android app: change default order for sorting photos

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