Hi, I need some advice. My phone is overloaded with photographs that I’d like to delete after posting to iNaturalist. I’ve got hundreds of photos from the city nature challenge and I’d like to get rid of the random leaves of trees and grasses. I’m just afraid that if I delete my photographs from my …

As long as the observations are synced to iNat, then iNat is no longer using the locally stored photo. But it’s important to note that if your original photo is larger than 2048x2048, then the version that iNat is storing is lower resolution. So if you had larger photos (which most people do), iNat…

Definitely don’t delete the photos! You can’t know if server crashes or you’ll need a larger version, photos you post you need to store, move the from smartphone somewhere else to save the space.

I delete my photos after I upload to Inat, unless they have some importance and rarity.

Over 99% of my observations taken from my smartphone get deleted. Only a few “rarities” get saved.

Of course you can if you think that neither you nor anybody else will ever need these photos again in the future. As for me, I keep all my photos on an external hard drive, sorted by place and date, just in case. First of all, these have a higher resolution than those posted on iNat. Secondly, a ba…

I give it a few days to see if anyone identifying thinks I need an additional picture to help support the id and then I delete, unless I really like the photo for some reason. I am, however, bad about deleting because I hate sitting there doing it, so I have more photos on my phone than I should. Bu…

Fantastic! The photos I want to remove are mostly scraggly quick shots of common “weedy” things and individual photos of oak and maple leaves and grasses. I plan to keep the bulk and especially the nicer photos and the unusual ones, but when I take 1,000 photos, scrolling thru them all to get to the…

All photos that are crappy but good enough for iNat I upload then delete. I probably save 10% or so of the photos I take.

If you’re not opposed to sending more dollars to Mr. Jeff’s humongous pockets, Subscribe to Amazon Prime and install their photo app. It allows you to automatically upload unlimited photos to your account – or even videos, but those are not free. But it’s a nice photo ‘backup’ solution and you can …

Again, you never know what will happen and what is valuable, I’ve been asked for originals of terrible phone photoes before, and was glad I stopped deleting any originals long ago.

Can I delete photos on my device after posting them on iNat?

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yayemaster May 6, 2023, 3:08pm 3

Yes, and once they are uploaded I encourage you to delete the photos. Inat saves the photos forever, and unless you plan on saving a few high-quality pictures, then I recommend you delete all photos.

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Can I delete photos on my device after posting them on iNat?

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