Transfer photos directly from iCloud to iNaturalist

I pay for iCloud storage of photos. Currently I have to download my phone pictures to my computer then upload them to iNaturalist. It would be a time-saving feature to be able to transfer photos from iCloud directly to iNaturalist.

Good idea. This should apply to sounds too. I use an app for recording birdsong which can export directly to iCloud, but it seems silly to have to download recordings to my computer and re-upload them to iNat.

Welcome, @brigid61! I do not use Cloud storage for anything, yet, but I can definitely see the advantage of being able to download from the Cloud directly into a website.

So you’re envisioning something similar to our current importer, which can be used with Flickr? It looks like this:

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Yes, that would be awesome!