Has anyone tried sharing photos *to* iNaturalist Next?

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I’ve been curious to see if anyone’s posted this yet, but no one has so I’ll do so. It’s possible to select photos in your Photos app, tap on the share button, and share them with iNat Next (I’ve blacked out my contacts in the screenshot below):

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There’s an annoying hitch that we can hopefully remove that shows you this next:

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But if you just tap “Post” you’ll be taken to iNat Next. If you’re sharing one photo you’ll go to the observation edit screen. If you’re sharing more than one photo, you’ll be taken to the Group Photos screen.

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I tried today after seeing this post. You’re right, getting rid of that pop up would be good. Or if it can’t be removed, maybe making it more clear that whatever you type there is going to end up in the observation’s notes. Once something is typed there in the notes, it’s not clear to me how to delete it when you’re inside iNat Next. I can open the notes and “clear” them, but you can’t press “done” until something else is typed in the field.

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I tried this today. My first attempt failed, but I’m going to assume user error, because I got it to work 3 times in a row afterwards.

I agree that the text entry pop up could be removed, but even if it stays, it’s nice to have the option upload that way.

Edit, I just realized that wherever you put in that space ends up in the observation notes. Some people may like that. I don’t think it will be super intuitive for new users.

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Great.

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If sharing from the Gallery is not supported in the Android app I am sure I will make a Feature Request for it.
And what about the storage use of this app when sharing photo’s with iNaturalist Next?
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/limit-cache-size-or-allow-cache-clearing-for-apps/2059/61

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I posted several observations with pictures onto iNat Next through the app and had great success with the uploading process but I will have to try this process sometime soon and will get back to you on this

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Didn’t realize that iNat next is out until I read this post. I realy love the to upload starting with the foto gallery! Also uploading is much faster in iNat next!

I often make a lot of observations with both, one or a number of pictures each. That is much easier in iNat next. I just don’t upload fotos with the old version anymore. :-)

I would be great, if I could do the same out of my MS ondrive foto gallery.

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Nevermind! I tried again this time selecting multiple pictures and was able to share directly with iNaturalist and the edit observation screen popped up immediately with all 3 pictures.

Is this with iOS? Or a separate app?
I have a friend who shared her pictures with inat and was able to post them as an observation I was super impressed. My android does not have this option unfortunately. I can’t remember what phone she had.