# \[bugreport\] upload while capturing hard to start **URL:** \ **Category:** iOS\ **Created:** [April 23, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844 "2019-04-23T11:45:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Richlv](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/richlv/32/68232_2.png) [@Richlv](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Richlv)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844/1 "2019-04-23T11:45:46Z")
With previous versions of the app, one could capture a bunch of images, start the upload, and switch to the capture mode right away. With the recent versions, upload activity shows the EXIF tag adding spinner (without any counter numbers yet), and becomes unresponsive - it is not possible to switch to the capture mode. While it seems to become responsive a bit later and allows to start capture, that happens minutes later (not acceptable for contributors), and anyway crashes as hell ( [Page not found](http://mapillary.trydiscourse.com/t/bugreport-latest-ios-app-crashing/2712) ), making such a workflow impossible. ---
**Author:** ![Richlv](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/richlv/32/68232_2.png) [@Richlv](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Richlv)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844/2 "2020-03-16T09:02:50Z")
Still a problem in the most recent version. ---
**Author:** ![4004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/bbce88/32.png) [@4004](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/4004)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844/3 "2020-03-16T09:14:37Z")
never came across the unresponsive upload issue, but not sure if upload&capture at the same time is a supported workflow ---
**Author:** ![Richlv](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/richlv/32/68232_2.png) [@Richlv](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Richlv)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844/4 "2020-03-16T09:33:11Z")
Not only it has worked for a very long time, it is also very useful. Ignoring that, having the whole app become unresponsive can be considered as the root of the problem 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asturksever](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/asturksever/32/72007_2.png) [@asturksever](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/asturksever)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844/5 "2020-03-17T14:15:13Z")
@Richlv Please, could you send this bug report to [support@mapillary.com](mailto:support@mapillary.com) with more details such as your phone model, IOS version and Mapillary App version? ---
**Author:** ![Knockerclot0715](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@Knockerclot0715](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Knockerclot0715)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844/6 "2020-03-17T15:22:03Z")
Wait, can you confirm that this is an actual feature on production right now and not just on the ‘wish-list’? Cause I take FlixBus quite often, and if that’s the case, I could probably use the bus’s wifi to start uploading the images in the background while simultaneously taking photos. ---
**Author:** ![Richlv](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/richlv/32/68232_2.png) [@Richlv](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/Richlv)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/bugreport-upload-while-capturing-hard-to-start/2844/7 "2020-03-19T15:07:58Z")
@asturksever, thank you for checking on this. Emailing things is a blackhole, no clue what happens to those emails - but will send there a collection of bugreports that are still relevant. @Knockerclot0715, as mentioned, it has been working for many years by now, and just recently has become harder to use. A very crucial feature for me in many situations, too. On top of that, Mapillary team has been fixing related screen locking issues back and forth (at least 3 times so far 🙂 ) [https://github.com/mapillary/mapillary\_issues/issues/2063](https://github.com/mapillary/mapillary_issues/issues/2063) [http://mapillary.trydiscourse.com/t/bugreport-screen-not-locked-after-upload-finishes/2867](http://mapillary.trydiscourse.com/t/bugreport-screen-not-locked-after-upload-finishes/2867) [http://mapillary.trydiscourse.com/t/bugreport-screen-locked-during-capture-mode/3449](http://mapillary.trydiscourse.com/t/bugreport-screen-locked-during-capture-mode/3449)