I’ve installed the iNat app since I’ve started posting here, but at my 500th ob it started acting strange: overheating my phone, multiplying obs, and others. Why? Does it also heappen to you? If so, how did you stop this ‘fallout’? Curious to hear your advice.

I’ve been using the android version of the app for over 6000 observations and it’s been mostly fine. no overheating

you can try posting in Bug Reports . provide as much information as you can, please.

You might try logging out on the app and then logging back in. That fixed it for me years ago when I first started.

My guess is the OP could speed up things optimizing their phone, either using the in-built optimizer function or clearing out the app’s cache in the settings, or simply reinstalling the app after deleting it (logging in again in the freshly installed app brings everything back, so nothing will be lo…

[image] olrett: I’d also check how much free space is left on the phone. Oh! Per @tiwane logging out and back in should help that, too. :) [image] Deleting iNat app? Try logging out and logging back in, that should clear the app’s cache and greatly reduce its size.

It’s always been like that for me. The biggest problem is when I scroll through observations to identify, the infinite scrolling overloads the app and shuts it down. It’s impossible for me to identify effectively via app.

The problem is… I’ve already uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, logged in and out twice but it still won’t work properly…

you, too, may benefit from submitting a formal Bug Reports ;)

[image] F.S: It’s impossible for me to identify effectively via app. The app isn’t designed for identification so you might encounter issues when doing that en masse. Some people opt to use the browser instead when identifying on the go because it can be a lot more efficient, albeit a little …

What does happen sometimes to me is that the cached thumbnails in the grid view get temporarily swapped around, creating a lot of funny combos. Seems like poor internet coverage plays a role there. Fixes itself normally. If not, clearing the cache does it. My opinion: I don’t need to view cached th…

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