Tutorial screenshots of 2025 iPhone iNat?

[ardy3]

I’m trying to update my slides for an Intro to iNat training for older adults and this will be the first time I do this since the new iNat for iPhone was released last year. I am an Android user and thus can’t capture my own screenshots for the different scenarios. Also, I really want screenshots that do NOT have any added arrows or text from someone else’s tutorials. I will be working with people who are new to iNat (some of whom are tech-tentative), so I will suggest they just use it in Standard mode for now.

Screenshots of pages I would greatly appreciate:

• My Observations
• Menu
• Settings
• Default Observation Action
• Default Licenses (where the user chooses CC0, CC-BY, etc)

If there is a tutorial with screenshots of these images, I would greatly appreciate being pointed in the right direction. I’ve been looking for the last couple hours and have had only partial luck.

This is what I’m in need of for the “pre-class” handout to help people get some initial settings in place. I haven’t yet gone through my previous slide deck, so I will probably be back in a day or two. :)

I will be teaching in a week, on Monday 9 March 2026.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

@ardy3

[holocenedixie]

If what you need is iNat Classic…

Hope these can be of assistance! I took these in creating my own presentation last year :) I don’t have the licenses page, however.

[asteroidowl]

Which iPhone app do you want? iNat Classic, or iNat Next? (Idk if there’s a difference between the OS for iNat Next).

[ardy3]

I’m looking for iNat Next (I thought they dropped the “next” and instead call the old version “classic” - sorry for the confusion). I’m concerned that if I use the Classic for the class it will just result in confusion. Plus, I don’t know how the Next version looks, so I’m not going to be much use in guiding others through their initial use.

Thank you for any help.

[ardy3]

Hi holocenedixie, I’m really looking for the iNat Next version. I really don’t know what many of the pages look like so I don’t even know for sure how to cobble something together that might be close enough. Thanks for any suggestion.

[astra_the_dragon]

I moved your post to Educators .

I suggest you survey your attendees to find out what kids of phones they are using. iNat Next is currently only on iOS. iNat Classic is available on Android and iOS - there are some differences but not as many.

Thomas Mesaglio published an exhaustive iNat guide here: https://ala.org.au/app/uploads/2026/02/A_Guide_to_iNaturalist_second_edition_Jan2026.pdf

while it is more oriented to desktop, he mentions the phone apps in several places. You can search the pdf.

[harveylam]

If you do need screenshots of the newer app for iOS, I’ve got the following, though for many purposes I do upload using iNat Classic or the website because those tend to be a lot faster.

My observations (Standard Mode):

My observations (Advanced Mode):

Menu (Standard Mode; Advanced Mode is practically the same save for the button at the bottom):

Settings (Standard Mode):

Settings (Advanced Mode):

If I click on the default observation action button in the bottom centre in Standard Mode, the following pops up (ID in camera):

If I press and hold said button instead, or press said button in Advanced Mode, the following options appear:

In order to alter image licences, you need to go into Settings as before and tap Account Settings, which brings you here:

at which point you tap the tab in green at the top and select Content and Display, leading you to the following if scrolled down to:

This last setting I wasn’t actually aware was accessible via an app so I had prior only ever navigated these account settings on the website (not to mention that it seems rather tucked away).

[astra_the_dragon]

you might also find this page helpful:

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/folders/151000552453

[ardy3]

Thank you. This is a fantastic guide!

[ardy3]

Thank you @harveylam These are perfect! Would you like me to obscure your name before I share these?

[tiwane]

@ardy3

I’m looking for iNat Next (I thought they dropped the “next” and instead call the old version “classic” - sorry for the confusion).

“Next” was dropped from the name, in nearly all situations.

[harveylam]

No worries, happy to help! I’ll also mention that the how-to guide that Astra linked should cover the rest of the important app stuff, after having looked through it, and probably has some better pictures in there as well for certain buttons/menus. You can obscure my name if you’d like, but I did luckily remember to erase my email from the screenshot of my account settings, so nothing’s there that isn’t already public.

Best of luck with your training next week. A few years back I trialled running an iNat workshop for a group of students completely new to the platform and it was a wee bit of work trying to get them to mark things as ‘Not Wild’ amid a slew of pictures of the school garden beds…

[ardy3]

Hi All,

Thanks for your help. Here’s what I put together as a handout for students that I sent to them today. This way (hopefully !) they will show up to class with iNaturalist pretty much ready to use. I still need to learn more about the iPhone version. But next year when I do this, I will have the new iNat (Next) on my Android phone, right?! Note that the attachments may be out of order, but they have page numbers so I’m sure you all can sort this out.