Here’s a list of iNat updates for March 2025.
General
- 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
Various small bug fixes and changes, such as:
- Place pages “People” tab now loads properly
- On Flags page, the taxon chooser shows immediately after one selects “Taxon” for content type
- New accounts’ email address must be confirmed before they can interact with content by other users
- Restrictions that prevent new accounts from editing establishment means and occurrence status
Android
- No new release.
Legacy iOS & iPadOS
- Version 3.3.6 released, which supports this photo similarity update.
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)
Released version 0.59.12 that includes a bunch of changes, notably:
- new “standard” mode with simpler interface and “match” screen after taking or importing a single photo. You can always go to Settings and turn on Advanced Settings for more options.
- In standard mode, long press the AI camera button to access all observation creation options (eg sound recording, bulk photo import)
- Many smaller interface updates and bug fixes.
iNat Blog
- March 5th: That’s One Ornate Tick! - Observation of the Week, 3/5/25
- March 5th: Celebrate 10 Years of the City Nature Challenge with iNaturalist!
- March 19th: Curator Guide Update: One-Month Flagging Period for Vascular Plants Before Taxon Changes
- March 19th: Identifer Profile: @alexis_orion
- March 25th: Australian Sea Centipede That’s the Color of Lime Jell-O? - Observation of the Week, 3/25/25
- March 31st: Help find these missing Canadian species
For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.