Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can. Platform (Android, iOS, Website): iOS 15.3.1 App version number, if a mobile app i…

That does seem pretty strange, that it stopped including the date after uploading 10 pictures. Did restarting the phone help? There are some other potential remedies for iOS upload issues, but I cannot recall them off-hand. :woman_shrugging:

Can you please send a full-sized copy to help@inaturalist.org so we can take a look? So you imported photos already taken with your camera into the iNat app and started uploading them? Did you quit the app at all? Just trying to make sure I can try to reproduce the replication conditions as closely…

Hi Tony! @tiwane I did business as usual: went to the field and took a lot of pictures with the phone. I don’t use the app to add direct observations when I’m out as the phone GPS usually fails providing the exact spot, so I always want correct it manually, and also the app consumes more energy and …

I’m having the same issue! Did you find a solution?

Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can. Platform (Android, iOS, Website): iOS App version number, if a mobile app issue (s…

I just tried making a new observation with a photo I took several days ago, and it imported the correct date, time, and location. Maybe try reloading the app again?

We get intermittent reports of this happening in iOS but I’ve never been able to replicate it or get details from useres experiencing it that allows me to investigate very much. Are you able to open up this photo in your Photos app and swipe up on to reveal its info and share a screenshot of that i…

I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app and that didn’t help. [IMG_4320] This shows the date and time of the photo. Again I’ve tried with multiple photos, even some I took the same day, and it didn’t work. For people with the same issue in the past, did it eventually resolve?

My problem is persisting, do you have any advice? How was this resolved in the past?

[image] sala_mandur_luvr: do you have any advice? At the moment I do not, I’m sorry. Are you able to send a screen recording of the entire process to help@inaturalist.org ? Also, are you able to download iNaturalist Next from the App Store and see if the problem also persists with that app?

iOS app does not detect date

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tiwane April 14, 2025, 10:11pm 13

Thanks.

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iOS app does not detect date

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