When taking a photo on iPhone, you can easily add a caption to label the image. This can be especially useful when you’re on a nature tour, your device is offline, and you want to later upload the image to iNaturalist to validate its identity.
In Costa Rica, Kimberley took thousands of photos, using Seek throughout the trip to support her in identifying plants, animals, and more. Seek attempts to identify elements of nature using a smartphone camera and can also submit observations to iNaturalist for validation or correction by the human scientific community.
While there, Kimberley started using a beta of Seek’s upcoming release that features a faster identifier. However, we learned from one (human) naturalist that Seek’s database is out of date and gets a lot of species wrong.
Thus, it became crucial for Kimberley to document the species correctly identified by the naturalist when they conflicted with Seek.
Client Notes
After returning from Costa Rica last week, I managed to make Touch ID work again on Adrianne’s MacBook — simply by installing a macOS software update. I may have also resolved a weird location glitch tied to her IP address, wherein websites thought she was in Texas.
Speaking of software updates, I support and encourage you to upgrade to the latest versions, including macOS 15 and iOS 18, on devices that support them. Let me know if you need support or have other concerns.
Show Photo Info
In Photos, open one image. As shown in Fancy Photo Finds, tap 
or swipe up on the photo to show its info.
You’ll see the capture date, file name, and whether the image has synced to iCloud. Then, there’s the camera model and other image metadata. If the location was known at point of capture or added later, it’s there, too.
System Preferences is where you can go to tell your Mac how to behave in alignment with your expectations. You can open it from the Apple menu. By default, the panes are organized in four (or five) categories. From top to bottom: Personal, Hardware, Internet & Wireless, System, and Other.
Add a Caption
At the top of the Info pane, there’s a field to “Add a Caption.” Tap there and type. If you’ve previously captioned a photo, you’ll see it there.
Captions seamlessly sync to and are visible in the photo info pane on other devices.
So, next time you photograph a creature you named, want to easily recall what you saw, or worry you’ll forget what was happening in a photo you captured, add a caption.
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