Here’s a list of iNat updates for February 2025.
General
- Computer Vision model 2.20, containing over 100k taxa, was released! iNat also released geomodel ranges for all taxa in the model.
- Computer Vision suggestions will now display the most visually similar taxon photo to the observation photo!
- The iNat team continues to gather feedback for the iNaturalist Next app, which has been soft-launched for iPhones.
- Continued work on API v2 - curators can test it and provide feedback, see this topic
- Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps - you can help
Website
- As mentioned above, Computer Vision suggestions will now display the most visually similar taxon photo to the observation photo.
Various small bug fixes and changes, such as:
- Observation fields now show a “last edited by” attribution if the field was edited by someone who didn’t add the field.
- History charts on taxon pages now default to only showing the last ten years.
Android
- Version 1.36.7 (627) released, with some updated translations
- The Android app’s replacement continues to be in pre-Alpha testing
Legacy iOS & iPadOS
- No new version release
Seek
Version 2.17.0 released with some big updates:
- On-device Computer Vision model updated to version 2.13, which contains about 80k taxa - four times the number of taxa that was previously available!
- If Seek is allowed to access your location, it will use the Geomodel to provide better identification suggestions
- For Apple users, Seek now uses the system-level photo picker, which is more searchable and fixes a bug that blanked out the screen if the photo library was too large
iNaturalist Next (currently iPhone only)
- No new public version released, but lots of development is ongoing behind the scenes
iNat Blog
- February 11th: This Fungus Grows on Horns and Hooves! - Observation of the Week, 2/11/25
- February 14th: A Worm with a Fan! - (Belated) Observation of the Week, 2/4/25
- February 19th: A Rare Glimpse of a Flowering Plant in Kazakhstan - Observation of the Week, 2/19/25
- February 19th: Better Image Matches: Photo Similarity Update to Computer Vision Suggestions
- February 25th: New computer vision model with over 100k taxa
- Februrary 25th: Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset
For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.