Here are iNaturalist updates from August 2026!
General updates
- iNat held a webinar for smartphone photography!
- New blog series Behind the Observation started, and Identifier Profiles are back!
- A new Computer Vision model was released!
Product updates
Website
- mobile browser responsiveness updates are being worked on
- various small fixes and updates.
iNaturalist (new app)
Released versions 1.0.27 and 1.1.0
- You can now filter your own observations by taxon in the Me screen, and sort them in a few ways!
Bug Fixes
- Android: Camera zoom stutters and does not stay zoomed
- Photos and sounds should fully delete when tapping back without saving
- If one observation failed to upload, it blocked all others in the queue in some cases
- No duplicative scrolling when selecting language, or when choosing taxonomic levels in Explore filters
- Tapping X in the standard camera closes camera
- Private-location observations not showing their location on Edit Observation
- If you’re sharing from Photos to iNaturalist, the app no longer saves a full-sized photo in the app when the observation is uploaded
Android
- No updates
Seek
- No updates
iNaturalist Classic
- No updates
For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.
iNat Blog
- August 4: Smartphone Photography for iNaturalist
- August 7: The new Computer Vision and Geomodel with over 1,500 new taxa
- August 12: Most iNaturalist records of this harvestman species come from one New Zealand ranger
- August 19: There’s beauty in grass | Identifier Profile: @kevinfaccenda
- August 26: You can now search and sort through your observations on the iNaturalist iPhone app!
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