[image] App Slow to Sync, Progress Bars Hang (not smooth), Provide No Info On What's Going On It is deterring me from making observations, because the more observations I make, the more I have to continually re-open the app. You could use the website to upload…? I think most people do.

[image] zdanko: You could use the website to upload…? I think most people do. This would be very time-consuming if I take photos on my phone, because I’d have to separately upload them to the computer. I have been using the app to upload because I take the photos in the app and it naturally …

It’s much, much faster to upload them in big batches than one by one, you get gps data without app anyway, so all you need is to populate accuracy and add taxa.

So like, I honestly hate apps and would strongly prefer to use only the iNaturalist website in large part because it is full-featured and the app is not. But like, the website is not responsive so it is really hard to use on a phone. Really fine print and you have to zoom in to do anything at all. …

If you have a lot of observations to upload, then yes, using computer is faster, but of course if there’re just a few app is ok and I use it (but I like being able to check and correct locations when I see multiple observations on the map, not possible to do that via app uploader). I go out for plan…

[image] cazort: Are you saying it would be fastest to just upload to my computer and then upload to iNaturalist from my computer in a big batch? Yes, exactly. Using the website on mobile is not a good option. If you only have a couple of observations, the app is faster, but if you save up you…

I appreciate the suggestion to find alternative ways to upload observations when the app is being buggy or slow, but this was straying pretty far from the bug report, so I moved it to its own topic. I can alternatively turn it into a private message if you would prefer.

Sounds good. I don’t really think there’s much else to say anyway.

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