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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Android
App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): 1.29.7 (581)
Android version Motorola S3SV32.45-28-1-6 applied on 09 July 2023
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: Create a new observation
Step 2: Select Image
Step 3: A severly restricted photo picker appears, it only shows a few last photos taken. Maybe the other ones are accessible by traversing the directories, but that is extremely slow, clumsy and without the preview, it is basically impossible to orient in the thousands of photos taken.
This is what I get from iNaturalist:
This is what I get from PlantNET now and what I used to get from iNaturalist before:
Yes, you can share a photo with iNaturalist from some app instead.
No, you cannot use that to add new photos to an existing (even if not uploaded yet) observation.
This makes it practically impossible to upload any significant number of observations from the phone now. Maybe, installing an older version may restore it, but otherwise it is now observations in the future ar much fewer of them.