IOS 16.6 Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can. Platform (Android, iOS, Website): IOS 16.6 App version number, if a mobi…

We released version 3.3 today, which has a fix for this. Should be available to everyone via the App Store.

Platform (Android, iOS, Website): IOS 17.0.1 App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): 17.0.1 Step 1: OPENING APP AND TRYING TO CREATE AN OBSERVATION Step 2: CHOOSE A PHOTO FROM THE PHOTO LIBRARY-APPLE PHOTOS APP WITH BLUE CHECK MARK Step 3: HIT ‘ADD’, BLACK BOX …

Same thing is happening to me, using iNaturalist 3.2.15, iOS 17.0.1, iPhone 13 Pro. It just hangs when I try to upload anything (and I haven’t had this happen until a week or two ago).

Same thing happening to me recently IOS version: 16.6.1 IPhone 11 App version: 3.2.15. build 708

@nepokroeff @ThosMoore - are you saying you can’t upload older photos (eg photos taken before updated to iOS 17), or can’t upload any photos at all, including ones taken today?

Once in a while, the app will successfully create an observation (maybe once out of ten tries), but this problem affects not only older photos but also photos taken today with iOS 17. This problem started around two weeks ago, and I think started happening before upgrading to iOS 17.

Thanks. A few more questions, if you have a moment. how much storage space is left on your device? are you using iCloud Photos? some users who’ve encountered this problem said that deleting and reinstalling the app fixes it. Have you tried that?

Sure — lots of device storage available (102 GB out of 256 GB used). I am using iCloud Photos. Haven’t tried deleting and reinstalling the app — I’ll give that a try in the morning.

Hi everyone - passing along a tip on this. I had the problem as well when I went to 17.x. The problem appears to be if the picture on my phone is the “lite” version of the image, with the high resolution version only on iCloud. If I go into the picture and the high res version gets downloaded the ph…

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Bug Reports

alex September 25, 2023, 7:06pm 4

Hi folks,

What version of the app are you on? You can find that in iNaturalist by going to the Me tab, tapping the settings icon in the top right, and then scrolling to the bottom of the App settings screen.

Thanks,
alex

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