On iOS it takes a long time to add photos for each observation and fill in detail. ( I find it time-consuming enough it puts me off uploading images despite taking them ) So I wondered if there could be a way to upload more at once. The main options I wanted to request are: increasing limit fro…

The latest update is rolling out in the App Store over the next few days and the photo import limit is now 8 images. [IMG_1162]

[image] crellow: I’ll fairly frequently add maybe five to eight photos to an observation from the iOS app Yes, same. It really varies… but when its a complex taxon and you don’t know what’s needed to ID…or yes, adding habitat, etc. Then it becomes super painful to have to stop and start… espe…

For users, usually new, who don’t know to separate photos to separate observations, with more photos allowed for upload/observation, you would expect fewer multi-organism observations, but with more species/observation. I’m not sure if it’s better/worse. It’s harder to correct each observation, but …

Why can’t you add multiple pictures to an ob from the ‘upload an observation’ page? I have to always manually add extra pictures after they’re uploaded. And when I upload a lot of them at once. They’re already getting ID’s, when I’ve not even uploaded all the pictures… that really frustrates me. Or…

[image] tiwane: are people often adding more than four photos to an observation? Often, no. But still enough to want this feature! Five to six photos allowed as a maximum is probably our magic number. This applies mostly to winged and once-winged insects for us, trying to get different views…

[image] belgianferns: Why can’t you add multiple pictures to an ob from the ‘upload an observation’ page? Can you share a screenshot of what you’re referring to as the “upload an observation” page?

[image] sbushes: How will it impact this? It should make it much more clear to users what kind of photos belong in an observation (eg all from the same encounter with an organism) but I guess we’ll have to see… And it’ll be easier to combine a bunch of photos into one observation before the o…

[image] tiwane: what kind of photos belong in an observation [IMG_4022] I think guidance by way of a couple of brief bullet point notes above the row of buttons would keep requirements top of mind for everyone and go a long way to help inexperienced users in particular. There’s plenty of sc…

As mentioned above, there’s a design for this in the new app that’s being developed. At this point we’re not really doing much work on the existing apps.

you can add as many extra photos as you want to a single observation here see my video tutorial I made for someone else previously: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TZkbCTriATL_HBrAJeqWG_DieMUcRkp6/view?usp=sharing

Increase number of image uploads at once on iOS app

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Increase number of image uploads at once on iOS app

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