I built this, on a fork of the iNat Next react native app: https://github.com/nebotron/iNaturalistReactNative
It uses some AI-powered subject detection for a first guess, and then you can adjust it. It’s right about 70% of the time in my experience (mostly for birds) which is enough to make it significantly faster than doing it manually. This is for the phone app only, not for the website.
It’s a bit of a pain to install it on your phone from source, at least for iPhone. You need to update the relevant files in the repo with your own Apple developer ID (see ios/iNaturalistReactNative.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj).
The interface looks like this. It’s a bit derpy. The AI chooses the initial crop, and then you can pinch and drag to adjust, and hit the green check to adjust once you’re happy.
