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I agree with @tiwane that dragging pictures out of Photos has various problems. I think the problem here might have to do with the fact that iPhones by default now use a custom image format (.heic) rather than .jpeg. Somewhere along the line these .heic files have to be converted to .jpeg files so t…

Jason, do you do any editing of any of the photos (either on the iPhone or on the Mac) before dragging them into a folder on your MacBook Pro? I ask because I have had some weird problems in the past that only occurred to photos that I had edited.

Another thought: dragging from Photos to a folder in the Finder has different results than exporting photos from Photos (using File > Export > Export Photos…). You might have success using Export if you can’t figure out why your current workflow isn’t behaving.

Thanks for the tip, I’ll give it a try and see if that changes anything.

OK doing that works perfectly! See attached 2 pairs of photos. Two on the left are done as you suggest, and the two on the right (the exact same images, having been dragged from Photos to a folder). 2 work, 2 don’t. So, this works fine, but might be a bit cumbersome when uploading dozens of observ…

I’ve seen multiple problems with images that are dragged and dropped out of Photos either onto the desktop or directly into the uploader (definitely never do the latter). If you want to email one or two of the problematic photos to help@inatuarlist.org we can take a look at them.

@sullivanribbit @tiwane Thanks for taking the time to reply to me with good information. I’ll try the new steps as you suggest. I’ve also just written to iNaturalist help with a series of photos. Cheers! Jason

So just following up here, the photos were not jpegs but HEIF files (thanks @sullivanribbit !) even though they had a .jpg in their file name. Not sure what’s going on with Apple Photos, but that’s beyond the scope of a bug report for iNat so I’m going to close this. See this feature request about a…

Random Iphone photos won't upload to iNaturalist from MacBook

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Random Iphone photos won't upload to iNaturalist from MacBook

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