Android app Version 1.29.18 When uploading photos to an observation, they are not uploading in order of selection. This often makes the first photo a photo that does not immediately convey what the observation is supposed to be of. For example, a photo of leaves on the ground to show the trees grow…

previous discussion: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/android-app-change-default-order-for-sorting-photos/42856

Well, I suppose it is just not a bug, but a feature?.. I mean - I’ve noticed exactly that peculiarity myself, some time ago, while using multiple photos upload - though I do not use android app, but just the iNat site itself via my PC. So, every time you upload several photos, they get the iNat id…

[image] natalia_gamova: I do not use android app, but just the iNat site itself uploading via the website is a different beast. it’s probably best to start a separate discussion (or carve this out into a new thread) if you really want to get into the way observations and photos get ordered wh…

I don’t understand. This is a real headache. The android app used to upload the photos in the order that I intentionally uploaded them. If I have 6 photos of a group of mushrooms, I need the underside photo of each mushroom to follow the cap photo of that mushroom. I can’t TAKE them in that order be…

Additionally, the “precious discussion” seems to be about the sort order, not the upload order.

the previous discussion i noted above covers both the order of photos in the selection interface and the display order of the photos after selection. for what it’s worth, after upload, if you don’t like the order of the photos, from the observation edit screen in the app, you can just hold and drag…

I’m not able to replicate this in my Pixel 7 running Android 13, using iNat 1.29.18 (592) which device are you using? which version of Android is it running? from where are you getting the photos? Are they stored on your device or in the cloud?

Photos not uploading in order of selection

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tiwane December 20, 2023, 9:07pm 8

I’m not able to replicate this in my Pixel 7 running Android 13, using iNat 1.29.18 (592)

which device are you using? which version of Android is it running?
from where are you getting the photos? Are they stored on your device or in the cloud?

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Photos not uploading in order of selection

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