Seek observations not pushing to iNaturalist

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): iOS

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): 2.16.4 (371)

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At some point my Seek observations stopped pushing to iNaturalist.

I clicked on the link in “Your 2024 iNaturalist Year in Review” late last year, excited to see represented all 1000+ observations I had made to contribute to citizen science. Instead it told me I had made 26 observations in the entire year. I’m not sure what happend, I always clicked the “share to iNaturalist” button when making my observations in Seek and saving/posting them.

When I look at my Seek Year in Review, it says in 2024 I observed 202 new species (and that doesn’t even cover the many many things I resighted).

I want to ask:

  1. Is there anything I can do to fix this moving forward?

  2. Is there anything I can do to upload the Seek observations that were missed for the period that they stopped posting?

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You have to manually choose to post a new Seek observation to iNaturalist, it’s never done automatically and can only be done at the time you create a new observation. Posting to iNaturalist is specifically limited in Seek, as Seek is designed to be more of an alternative to iNat and not a main avenue for posting to iNat, I’m sorry.

If you’re main reason for using Seek is to use offline, in-camera suggestions, you might try iNaturalist Next, which has that functionality.