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I’ve also had it happen with wifi and without wifi. I think it’s definitely something on the app’s end rather than my phone because I tinkered around with it quite a bit and it still ends up happening. I’m wondering if maybe after uploading X amount it starts slowing down and that’s what’s doing it …

This might be completely unrelated and if so, I could make another bug report but I started noticing this at the same time as what I already did a bug report for. The observation number doesn’t always go up and sometimes I have to scroll the page up for it to refresh and then the number will change.…

If possible can you please share a screen recording of this? You can send it to help@inaturalist.org if you don’t want to make it public. Instructions for recording your screen: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207935

I should be able to. It’ll give me a reason to work through the observations I’m putting off uploading, anyway…

So, first try and 2 of the 3 things I mentioned happened. 1. The bar didn’t ever fill, but it did ultimately upload on its own. 2. The number didn’t go up by itself and I had to refresh it. I think I’ll have to send the videos via email because I can’t figure out a way to do it on here. (I sent an …

Thanks, I got the recordings. [image] anon83178471: The bar didn’t ever fill, but it did ultimately upload on its own. Yeah that was weird. Are you uploading a bunch of observations in a session? [image] anon83178471: The number didn’t go up by itself and I had to refresh it. I don’t…

[image] tiwane: Are you uploading a bunch of observations in a session? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. It will do this on and off in both instances, though. [image] tiwane: I don’t think this is a bug Maybe not an actual bug but it’s new for me, at least. Normally the number would g…

Observation halting upload

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Observation halting upload

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