Platform: web version, for the past 2 weeks. Browser, if a website issue: Safari Screenshots of what you are seeing: Description of problem: Step 1: I add a photo to upload an observation [Screenshot 2026-08-03 at 1.50.24 PM] Step 2: the upload fails [Screenshot 2026-08-03 at 1.50.33 PM] S…

I just updated to MacOS Tahoe 26.6 and it solved the problem. Thank you!

questions: would you describe in more detail the exact process you use to upload the file? (are you dragging and dropping a file from the Photos app to a browser window with the upload webpage? or are you clicking Add > Photo or Sounds… and then selecting a file from the file picker? or are you us…

Hi! Thanks for the questions. I add photos by clicking Add > Photos or Sounds and then using the picker. The photos are .heic but I that is the format I was using before I ran into issues as well. The fail takes anywhere from 3-20 seconds and seems to depend on how many images for the observation, i…

Oh that’s definitely the same issue. Thanks, I will read through that thread.

[image] sylbobaggins: The photos are .heic but I that is the format I was using before I ran into issues as well. that’s interesting because the second screenshot in your original post indicates that the web upload page was trying to upload a jpeg image. there must be some on-the-fly conversi…

Can confirm, updating to MacOS 26.6 fixes the problem. Thanks!

Problem uploading observations

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tiwane August 3, 2026, 9:23pm 3

I suspect this is the same issue as here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photos-fail-in-web-uploader-when-using-safari/81549

Does it happen in other browsers?

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