Hi All- I am using the new app and just made a few dozen observations. They take an agonizingly long time to upload, with many failures and freezes. Am I doing something wrong?

The other issue I faced in the past year (twice) was apparently a cache problem which was manifested in the delays and freezes you’ve described. Turning my phone off and on and relaunching iNaturalist did not solve this, but deleting and reloading the app did. This is certainly not an ideal soluti…

I haven’t used it much (new iPhone version) but I’ve found that the buttons often don’t work when I do try to use it. This applies to both the buttons to make observations and the buttons to search for observations in the area. Sometimes it works fine. Sometimes it will work if I wait awhile (maybe …

Interesting remark about the buttons not working. On my iPhone version (on iPhone14), the “activity” buttons frequently don’t work. I have to close (not sign off, just close) and open the app again and then they work. They may just be very picky in the way they’re hit, but I don’t run across this …

I still use the old app not just because I like it so much better but also because the new app has been so so so unreliable. I have an iPhone 11 and am operating on ios18.6.2. It also didn’t work for me when I was on ios 16. The buttons almost never work in the app, and half the time I can’t even s…

I have the same issue. Sometimes it takes a few open-and-closings plus a bit of waiting for the buttons to respond at all.

It happens to me, and what gcwarbler said mirrored my experience. It’s something about the cache not being able to clear. If I completely delete the iNat app, and reinstall, it works fast/good again. But after having gone a few weeks or 1-2 months of uploading, it gets bogged down, eventually to the…

I’m the same way; I gave the new inat app a college try and it was so frustrating. Have almost no issues with Classic so I’ll be using that until I’m forced to upgrade!

Same for me - new app glitching, freezing, intermittent responsiveness and erratic behaviour of buttons. I normally use the classic app, which still works pretty fast on my ageing iPhone

The issue has been noticeable wherever I’ve been. The difference seems not to be location or signal but the new app. I can’t remember ever having the issue with the old app. It’s cool that the AI identifies the organism even before you’ve taken the picture. But it seems like that feature comes at …

This is constantly an issue for my partner ( @izafarr ) and myself on both of our (relatively new) phones. It becomes totally unusable at times. A few things that I have found that help, YMMV: Force quit the app - swipe up part way from the bottom on an iPhone until you see the carousel of active ap…

Glitches with the New App (slow, freezing)

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tiwane November 6, 2025, 4:55am 20

Are you referring to the iNaturalist web site? This discussion is about the iNaturalist iOS app, not the website.

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