Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome I’m not sure if this is the correct Forum topic, so I can move it if necessary. I include my ID or best guess ID as part of the file name with all of the images I submit to iNat; I always try to …

Hi @smithjg1954 - it’s not part of iNaturalist’s computer vision, but yes it’s an intentional feature that the web uploader reads the filename to attempt to match it to a taxon in the iNaturalist database. If you’re not quite sure which genus, perhaps you could use a coarser taxon rank in the filen…

Thank you. I’ve wondered about that for awhile now, but I only just decided to ask about it.

iNat suggested identifications match ID name in filename

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Something important to keep in mind when you are uploading photos to iNat General web	7	1394	June 10, 2021
Add observation - Automatically tagged my observations with incorrect names based on photo filenames Bug Reports	76	5716	May 29, 2020
Weird id suggestions in web uploader: "orange" or "wall brown" Bug Reports	4	756	May 5, 2020
Strange IDs Appearing - Wrong Animal Bug Reports web	6	554	October 28, 2023
Parsing identifications from file name General	6	1007	November 25, 2019

iNat suggested identifications match ID name in filename

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