How to upload voice memos from iphone onto inat efficiently

[Oak_toads127]

Hello,

I have a bunch of audio recordings of birds on my iphone in the voice memos app, but I can’t directly upload these onto inat on my phone. Does anybody know a good way to add these?

Thanks

[thatmash]

Hi,
Welcome to iNat

When I’ve been in a pinch, I’ve shared the voice memos to the files app and then uploaded them through the website in safari.
That’s probably the best I can come up with

[cthawley]

Some previous threads that deal with uploading audio files that may be useful:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/audio-observation-workflow/11930
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-i-upload-a-merlin-audio-song-file-to-my-first-inaturalist-observation/41144
There might be others.

[cyathus]

I share my voice memos to a dedicated folder on my Google drive (which also serves as a backup of all my bird song records), then download them on my PC, and after that I upload them on iNat.

[tiwane]

I’ll often make a media-less observation in the field so I can capture the date, time, and location, then airdrop the sound to my computer and add it to the observation.