I was just looking at the different instructions in the Help section of iNaturalist for multiple organisms in a single observation. As far as I can tell, it’s not possible to tell on the Identify page whether a user with a new account is using the app or the website. Has anyone figured out how to ex…

Here are some template responses to this common issue: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses#multiple You could link to the help page, which would open in their mobile browser app (such as Safari or Chrome). Here’s how to tell if someone is using the iPhone or Android apps. Go to the observ…

Thanks. I really meant how to do it without having to open to the observation view, so I was looking for something that covers both ways. So maybe just “this observation contains photos of more than one kind of organism–here’s how to fix it–[link to Help page that you gave above]”?

We just made those up, so feel free to formulate some text that works for either web or mobile and any curator can add it to that “Frequently Used Responses” page.

Thanks, sorry. I thought that was the Help section, didn’t even notice it was titled “Frequently Used Responses.”

There is one on the FAQ page, maybe it could be beefed out provide instructions on fixing existing observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#manytaxaperobs

Wow! You folks have made these even better than when I last looked! I wish someone would add a link to these to the Identify toolbar, so identifiers could open a window to these prepared responses as needed.

Instructing users to split into separate observations

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Instructing users to split into separate observations

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