The Problem When using the IOS iNaturalist App, once you click on "Suggest ID" you can no longer view the photos provided by the user. Only a small cropped version of the observation's first photo is provided with no option to zoom into this photo. I seldom make IDs on the app, but when I do, I of…

[image] mangum: The option to view and zoom into all of an observation’s photos on the “Suggest ID” screen. This is now what it looks like when you are suggesting an ID in the newer mobile app. You can also tap on the thumbnail to view the larger image. [image] [image]

Edited the title so it referred explicitly to the iOS app.

[image] mangum: Please let me know if this is also missing from the android-app and I’ll add that tag. On Android, you can tap the photo to zoom in on it from that screen. But you can only use the “Suggest ID” feature for the first photo (on someone else’s observation). Like iOS, you can only…

[image] bouteloua: On Android, you can tap the photo to zoom in on it from that screen. Hi! Just to make sure I follow you, when you say, “that screen”, you mean the “Suggest ID” screen on someone else’s observation, correct? So on the screen in my image above, you would be able to click on t…

Yep! Tapping the top image brings me to a new screen with the larger photo which I can zoom in on. [20190501_183439] [Screenshot_20190501-183401_iNaturalist] [20190501_183425]

Cool! I wonder why the iOS-app does not have this feature. I also wonder why (on both apps) you can only view the first photo.

[image] mangum: I wonder why the iOS-app does not have this feature. I also wonder why (on both apps) you can only view the first photo. The iOS app, having been originally written many moons ago, has had to have its old underlying code replaced piece by piece with newer code so that more fea…

Interesting, that explains the differences between the two apps. Thank you!

It’s still planned but we can’t provide an estimate as to when it will be added, I’m sorry.

View all of an observation's photos when suggesting an ID

Feature Requests

joncdixon June 11, 2021, 6:25pm 9

Is there any traction on the new iOS app? I was SO JEALOUS when I saw the android version.

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View all of an observation's photos when suggesting an ID

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