# Latest IOS app requires "Add date/time" for every new observation

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/latest-ios-app-requires-add-date-time-for-every-new-observation/84729>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** mobile-app\
**Created:** [August 30, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/latest-ios-app-requires-add-date-time-for-every-new-observation/84729 "2026-08-30T19:17:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnMaxwell22](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/johnmaxwell22/32/64821_2.png) [@JohnMaxwell22](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/JohnMaxwell22)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/latest-ios-app-requires-add-date-time-for-every-new-observation/84729/1 "2026-08-30T19:17:59Z")

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**Platform** :IOS

**App version number** , if a mobile app issue:1.1.0(229)

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**Description of problem** :

Step 1:Latest IOS app requires “Add date/time” for every new observation. It used to use the data from the image

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Step 3:

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/latest-ios-app-requires-add-date-time-for-every-new-observation/84729/2 "2026-08-31T21:04:06Z")

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I’m not able to replicate this. How are you getting the photos into the app? Have the photos been taken with your iPhone, or with other camera and then transferred to your iPhone?

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**Author:** ![JohnMaxwell22](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/johnmaxwell22/32/64821_2.png) [@JohnMaxwell22](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/JohnMaxwell22)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/latest-ios-app-requires-add-date-time-for-every-new-observation/84729/3 "2026-09-01T13:51:30Z")

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The photos are taken with the ProShot app (I always use this), then edited with IOS’s built-in Photos app.

UPDATE: I just ran some tests, and it seems ProShot coincidentally broke at the same time I got the new iNat with sorting observations. NOW, when I take an image with ProShot, I see “No camera information” and “No lens information”, but it does still have the date/time & GPS info. IDK why the lack of “Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max” and “Ultra Wide Camera - 13 mm f2.2” would break the date/time in iNat? I have sent the app maker a report.

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/latest-ios-app-requires-add-date-time-for-every-new-observation/84729/4 "2026-09-09T20:12:28Z")

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A post was split to a new topic: [Photo metadata issues in web uploader](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-metadata-issues-in-web-uploader/85175)