# App bug: observations not uploading

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/app-bug-observations-not-uploading/64735>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** observations, mobile-app, ios\
**Created:** [May 3, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/app-bug-observations-not-uploading/64735 "2025-05-03T19:16:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![salamander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@salamander](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/salamander)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/app-bug-observations-not-uploading/64735/1 "2025-05-03T19:16:43Z")

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## Bug Report

**Platform (Android, iOS, Website):** iOS (on the new app)

**App version number:** 1.0.0 (159)

**Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc)**: n/a

**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:** n/a

**Screenshots of what you are seeing:**

 ![IMG_0087](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/8/5/856e1c6572790074db004cd2fe3f25160c2d53e2.jpeg)  
Upload ## observations

 ![IMG_0088](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/3/3/3352583aace999abda3bcd3166d98fbe40792aac.jpeg)  
Uploading ## observations  
 ![IMG_0089](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/c/8/c886eca8c1ce875c914aa5033c2e699f1ce6578d.jpeg)  
x# observations upload

**Description of problem:**

Step 1: On new iNaturalist app, hold down camera button in center

Step 2: Select upload multiple photos from your photo library button

Step 3: Select photos from photo library

Step 4: Batch some photos to group together and/or do not batch (issue occurring with both methods)

Step 5: Select identification and save

Step 6: After waiting for observations to upload on their own, press sync to try again

Step 7: It will say observations uploaded, but it is not working. This did work for my first set of ~20 images, but not for the second set and has not worked since then even with only doing 1 or 2 images at a time.

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**Author:** ![anglantis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/anglantis/32/55008_2.png) [@anglantis](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/anglantis)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/app-bug-observations-not-uploading/64735/2 "2025-05-05T20:25:32Z")

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Thanks for the bug report. This is part of a larger issue but we are aware of this issue and are working on a fix.