I’m testing iNaturalist Next while traveling in a country where i don’t have a data plan. I’m finding that the app is missing a lot of functionality without cell service/internet causing me to go back to using the old app in this situation. I know the app is in development and am definitely not post…

I was in an area with reasonable cell service (3-4 ‘bars’) and it took ~25 min to upload 8 observations with Next.

The ability to write in a placeholder name while offline is huge, please bring this back from the old version. I know it’s not something that seems intuitively necessary but I will say it’s much of some of our workflows when observing in more remote places.

yes i know sometimes people put in placeholders that don’t translate to names directly, causing some confusion on the site, but totally deleting a feature that is crucial to most power users in most parts of the world isn’t going to be a good call. If you’re that worried about it you can just have i…

There are solutions. For instance, if you then come into cell service, or even better try and upload with a “placeholder”, it could nag you then.

iNaturalist Next with poor/no cell phone connectivity

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iNaturalist Next with poor/no cell phone connectivity

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