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What size are the photos you are uploading? Something similar to this happens sometimes to mine, but I have noticed it only happens when I have my phone camera set to 50 megapixel images. When selecting photos taken at 12 megapixels, there are no issues.

Thank you for the tip. I haven’t changed any camera settings lately, and the photos have always worked before. I just looked at the photos for the first observation to be uploaded. They are all about 1.0 MB in size, which seems reasonable.

In my camera settings, the standard photo size is 16 megapixels.

I have had this problem before. I discovered the cause was that my phone was putting an incorrect time stamp on anything captured between 11 p.m. and midnight, and was actually showing a time in the future. iNaturalist wasn’t able to process the time stamp until 24 hours went by. Same issue with the…

I don’t have a solution, but I’d like to add that I started experiencing the same today–crashing during observation upload. Google Pixel 4a-5G, Android 14.

Could it happen because of poor internet connection in your region? I had the same during a was in a small valey, and later on, the upload was fine as usual.

Thank you for the suggestion. My internet connection is actually quite good (in a city).

I think this happened to me before. I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it and it works.

Thank you for the suggestion. If I uninstall and reinstall the app, will I lose all my pending (not yet uploaded) observations?

Android app crashing during upload

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tsn March 23, 2025, 2:15am 4

I just looked at more of the photos. While most are in the 1.0-1.5 MB range, some are in the 3-5 MB range, and a very few are in the 7-9 MB range. Do you know what the size limit for iNat might be?

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