# iNaturalist Updates for November 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** News and Updates\ **Tags:** web, android-app, seek, monthly-update, mobile-app\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-updates-for-november-2025/73278 "2025-12-01T23:07:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-updates-for-november-2025/73278/1 "2025-12-01T23:07:26Z")
Here’s a list of iNat updates for November 2025. ### General - iNat brought on [new members](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/120141-the-inaturalist-team-continues-growing) to the staff and board! - Released the [iNat Year in Review](https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/)! You can scroll to the bottom of the page to see network site Year in Reviews, and [you can go here](https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/you) to generate one for your account! Site-wide Year in Reviews will be updated every Sunday in December (US time), and on January 1st, 2026. - [Held a webinar](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/119680-identifying-on-inaturalist-how-you-can-help) for people interested in helping out with identifying, and how to be an identifier even if you aren’t an expert - [Updated the Computer Vision model](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/120349-updated-computer-vision-model-and-geomodel-with-over-1-500-new-taxa), which now has 1,500 more taxa ### Website Small updates, such as: - [added row banding](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-row-banding-to-the-data-quality-assessment/71680) to the Data Quality Assessment and Annotations tables. - web uploader [now parses](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/non-english-exif-image-description-is-not-imported-correctly-into-the-note-field/59609) special characters and accents in photo metadata better - iNat [stopped notifying you](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/receiving-notifications-when-i-resolve-a-flag/69716) if you commented on a flag and also resolved it ### Android [View all release notes](https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/releases) No new release. ### New iNaturalist App (currently iPhone only) Version 1.0.11 released on November 19th, mostly minor updates and bug fixes. ### Legacy iOS & iPadOS - No new version released ### Seek - mostly minor bug fixes and updates - removed the one finger slide-to-zoom as it prevented two-finger “normal” zoom from working on Android device. ### [iNat Blog](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog) - Nov 6th: [Identifying on iNaturalist: How you can help!](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/119680-identifying-on-inaturalist-how-you-can-help) - Nov 18th: [The iNaturalist team continues growing!](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/120141-the-inaturalist-team-continues-growing) - Nov 24th: [Updated computer vision model and geomodel with over 1,500 new taxa](https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/120349-updated-computer-vision-model-and-geomodel-with-over-1-500-new-taxa) For even more bug fixes and updates, check out [iNaturalist on github](https://github.com/inaturalist) and see [previous monthly updates](https://forum.inaturalist.org/tag/monthly-update). ---
**Author:** ![kildor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kildor/32/2453_2.png) [@kildor](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kildor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-updates-for-november-2025/73278/2 "2025-12-03T05:17:16Z")
> [@tiwane](#): > > web uploader [now parses](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-row-banding-to-the-data-quality-assessment/71680) special characters and accents in photo metadata better Here is wrong link, to previous point. BTW, could this change break handling of coordinates parsing? I make observations via site with photos from phone with enabled locations and with photos from camera, which have locations added manually via geosetter. Previously all photos update they locations simultaneously with datetime, but now phone photos do the same way, but photos from camera doesn’t. It shows datetime, next uploaded to the server and after that the location is shown. It is quite annoying. I can make a bug with attached files, if needed. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-updates-for-november-2025/73278/3 "2025-12-03T16:37:14Z")
Thanks, fixed. > [@kildor](#): > > I can make a bug with attached files, if needed. Yes, please do. And if you can email examples of each type of photo to [help@inaturalist.org](mailto:help@inaturalist.org), that would be great. Please send them as attachments, not in the body of the email. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-updates-for-november-2025/73278/4 "2026-02-01T16:37:54Z")
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