I have the iNat app on my iPhone but have not used it much over last year or so. I find the functionality is just not that great, but it is useful (necessary, actually) for uploading photos taken on my phone to the website when I submit records. But beyond that, I use the main iNat website on my ph…

I mostly use the app to check my Activity feed, when I’m away from my computer. I do everything else on the website on my computer, including uploading photos I’ve taken on my iPhone. However, the app is my go-to tool when I’m recommending iNat to new users. It’s much simpler than the website at th…

[image] anon83178471: If I’m on the website and want to look at what an area looks like, I just do it on there. how? the map?

I love using the app to upload all of my photos(even though it crashes every 50-60 observations), check my activity feed, use the Explore feature to see coordinates of nearby plants when I don’t have it marked down, etc. Uploading on the website is a pain as there is no coordinates or date stamp att…

Date and location absolutely show up in the web uploader if this information is recorded in a photo’s metadata. If this information doesn’t show up when you upload photos that come from your phone, check your phone’s camera settings or the method you use to transfer photos to a PC to make sure that …

Yes. Just explore. It’s not as easy or appealing as the app version, so I probably could’ve worded it as if I view it a little bit more highly than it seems, because I do like it quite a bit. I’m honestly pretty used to seeing the downsides of the app and not the benefits because I think that’s what…

I use the iPhone app almost exclusively, as a data collection tool. Most of my >50,000 observations were made with the app. Personally, i don’t find that it fits well in my workview to take photos and add them later, for a variety of reasons. It takes longer, i sometimes forget what species i was lo…

Thanks all for the feedback on my questions. My understanding from something I read is that you can use the iOS app to observe and upload even when you’re out of cell phone range, that it completes the upload when you’re back in range. But how does it capture the coordinates? I have not tried this…

[image] jnstuart: My understanding from something I read is that you can use the iOS app to observe and upload even when you’re out of cell phone range, that it completes the upload when you’re back in range Sort of. You have to manually upload those observations, it’s not autotmatic. Otherwi…

yeah the auto sync feature has been a long standing problem because it doesn’t work very well. It halts use of the app until the observation is uploaded and it often bugs out in areas of poor cell reception. It makes app use very slow. I suspect this is a lot of why people don’t think the iPhone app…

iPhone app: how much do you rely on it?

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vreinkymov August 16, 2022, 4:11pm 40

That’s the auto-sync feature: Auto-sync on app. The app can still be used in airplane mode, cell-service isn’t required.

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