Platform: android Description of problem: I would like to identify observations more but that would take that I could also use mobile app to identifying. It should improve so that it doesn’t freeze / crash all the time. Is the new app coming to android when and will it be more stable? (Problems …

Moved this to General as it’s more of a question than a bug. [image] turo: I would like to identify observations more but that would take that I could also use mobile app to identifying. It should improve so that it doesn’t freeze / crash all the time. When the new app comes to Android, the …

It works on my Android so…I don’t know how to help other than use another device

I also find the Android app to be very unstable / buggy, especially when using “Explore”. It often fails to record identifications, and gets slower and slower until I “force stop” it. The symptoms feel consistent with memory leaks. I know the iNat dev team has been focusing on adding “AI”, but impro…

[image] pburka: I know the iNat dev team has been focusing on adding “AI”, but improving the usability of the existing software might help attract and retain users. I’m sorry the Explore section of the current Android app is prone to slowness, but I’d say this isn’t related to the ID Summarie…

I routinely hop between the Android app, and the iNat browser version on my phone. The app observation page always has a bottom link to the desktop observation page and even though that means a lot of zooming on the browser page to read the tiny type, it seems fully-functional. Except, I’m not an i…

[image] tiwane: Explore functionality should be more stable than in the current Android app I have tried new beta android iNat next app from Github and I did like how explore functionality has certainly expanded but it also got back in few things. I don’t know how more things will change as I…

Will it someday be possible to identify observations (functionally) through mobile app (android)

General

emilirondelle January 9, 2026, 7:48am 7

Happy to hear that explore will be improved in the new android app. I’d do a lot more ID-ing if the android app wasn’t so slow. Look forward to it coming out.

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Will it someday be possible to identify observations (functionally) through mobile app (android)

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