Several thousand photos backlog is totally my baseline. 345 obs with multiple photos sitting in the app waiting to upload? while not terribly uncommon for me, made my phone useless.
see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-using-lots-of-storage-on-iphone/3316/7 for help with that if anyone needs it
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