Photos that were taken in portrait mode automatically uploaded to Landscape mode

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): ANDROID

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): 1.31.3 (612)

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) :

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240841371

Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):

Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: Upload photo from Android phone via the “share” option in Samsung Gallery

Step 2: Despite the photo being taken in vertical “portrait format” and the phone detecting it as such, the photo is not recognized by inaturalist app as being vertically oriented and so is uploaded to the app sideways, necessitating it having to be vertically rotated using the “Edit” feature in inaturalist app, which is not a big deal if it’s only one observation but if its a few its a real pain in the @ss and waste of time.

Step 3:

Closing this to focus discussion on the existing bug report: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photos-rotated-after-adding-to-observation-date-and-time-not-imported/24763/

@joeysantore please take a moment to see if there’s an existing bug report for your issue before making a new one. Thanks!