# Cannot select multiple images in uploader in mobile browser **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Tags:** web\ **Created:** [October 9, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091 "2024-10-09T20:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![upupa-epops](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/upupa-epops/32/1972_2.png) [@upupa-epops](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/upupa-epops)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091/1 "2024-10-09T20:17:07Z")
**Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): Web, in mobile browser **Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Samsung Internet **URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload) **Screenshots of what you are seeing** : ![Screenshot_20241009_160432](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/c/4/c4268fb59ce252bc2aeb8b58ab214b35f9ab1d5b.jpeg) **Description of problem** : I have a lot of photos on my phone that I’d like to upload but haven’t gotten around to because of the slowness of doing them one at a time through the app (especially with the added step of [having to add accuracy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bug-gps-accuracy-not-added-to-observation-on-android/22419/19) for every obs since the Android camera doesn’t record that). I was hoping I could use the web uploader, load in 20-50 photos at a time, add IDs and a batch location precision value, and upload them together. However I found that there wasn’t any equivalent to Shift-select or Ctrl-select that I could do with my phone to select multiple images at once to combine them into observations, once they’re loaded into the uploader. I tried long-holding and using two fingers together, and can’t think of what else would work here. I tried testing this in Chrome as well but clicking the upload button on the website there automatically redirects me to the app instead, which isn’t what I’m looking for. ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091/2 "2024-10-10T20:11:23Z")
I’m not sure this is a bug. My experience with the mobile browser has always been like this, which was what finally got me to start using the app. ---
**Author:** ![upupa-epops](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/upupa-epops/32/1972_2.png) [@upupa-epops](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/upupa-epops)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091/3 "2024-10-10T20:36:13Z")
Do you mean you think the inability to hold and select is intentional? ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091/4 "2024-10-10T20:59:34Z")
The iNat website is unfortunately not designed for use on mobile browsers. Are you able to send the photos to a computer and use that uploader? > [@upupa-epops](#): > > (especially with the added step of [having to add accuracy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bug-gps-accuracy-not-added-to-observation-on-android/22419/19) for every obs since the Android camera doesn’t record that) To be clear, this is not a _necessity_ for iNaturalist. You can also use batch edit on the website to add an accuracy value to a batch of observations. ---
**Author:** ![upupa-epops](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/upupa-epops/32/1972_2.png) [@upupa-epops](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/upupa-epops)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091/5 "2024-10-10T21:29:16Z")
> [@tiwane](#): > > Are you able to send the photos to a computer and use that uploader? I am, it’s just another slow step in the workflow I was hoping to get around. If that’s the only option I’ll get to it eventually. > [@tiwane](#): > > To be clear, this is not a _necessity_ for iNaturalist. You can also use batch edit on the website to add an accuracy value to a batch of observations. Fair (I just read [this discussion](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/having-an-accuracy-radius-on-your-location-can-be-important-to-some-data-users/55283/84)). I’d like to have accuracy since it seems to make observations more useful and it’s generally not that much extra work to add it. The latter is what I usually do, and was hoping to do in mobile. Maybe here that desire is a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good… ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091/6 "2024-10-10T21:31:27Z")
I think it’s fine, I just wanted to be clear that it’s not a requirement. :-) ---
**Author:** ![upupa-epops](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/upupa-epops/32/1972_2.png) [@upupa-epops](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/upupa-epops)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cannot-select-multiple-images-in-uploader-in-mobile-browser/57091/7 "2024-10-10T21:36:57Z")
My backlog grows faster than I upload, at this rate there’s a risk some things never get uploaded! But c’est la vie. :P