App version number : 0.55.3 Operating System / Device : iOS 18.2 / iPhone 13 Pro Description of problem : iNat Next struggles to upload. Even leaving my phone plugged in overnight, it only uploads 5 and then stops. I have to quit the app and restart to upload each 5, leading to a huge backlog …

Ok I deleted that one … This time 19 uploads and 2 fails before it hangs …it stops going further after 15 minutes or so : See timestamps : [IMG_2178] [IMG_2179] [IMG_2180] [IMG_2181]

What sort of upload speeds should I be seeing? And should it upload in the background even when the app is minimized?

Closing and restarting after that it stopped after 10 minutes at 37 uploads and then hanged… Waiting longer there was 1 upload failed added See timestamps : [IMG_2191] [IMG_2190] [IMG_2185] [IMG_2183]

Final attempt… hanging at 87 uploads after 20 minutes [IMG_2203] [IMG_2206] [IMG_2207] [IMG_2208]

I am still seeing requests in the logs to connect that photo to https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/253963010 . You might try deleting that observation from the website first and trying again. FWIW, I don’t think this has anything to do with speed. You’ve got an observation photo with a bad uni…

For whatever reason it seemed smoother toward the end and the backlog is cleared now. I’m not currently experiencing the issue, it seems very smooth right now. But I believe the issue existed before I had the backlog too fwiw… and wasn’t connected to the number of observations. But then maybe it …

when this happened to me It was because the app wasn’t getting the time of my phone and getting a random time (sometimes in the future) and gave me this errors . I had to curate all the photo times manually.

Fwiw, the failed uploads continue. They seem to be when I move out of the app whilst the uploads are ongoing. Even if the app can´t run entirely in the background when one chooses…it would be good if the uploads didn´t stop the moment I change app. I am not fully closing it… just switching to a s…

[image] sbushes: Is there a reason the app doesn’t carry on uploading in the background? Would be good to have the option to allow it do that. Mainly because neither of the legacy apps do that and at one point in the long history of iNat Next we were using parity with the legacy apps as a go…

[image] kueda: Supporting continuous upload in the background is one of the many things on our TODO list for iNat Next Good to know! [image] kueda: two installations of the app Not sure what you mean here. You mean all the failed uploads are somehow due to having the legacy version as…

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tiwane April 24, 2025, 7:15pm 21

@sbushes is this still an issue with the latest version (1.0.0)?

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