Date: 5/5/25 10:13 am From: Betsy Kane (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Merlin has regressed...
I noticed what seemed like a big slowdown / failure to detect anything with
Merlin right after a periodic update to my iPhone operating system a few
months ago. I think that was back in December.
It seems to have improved more recently, but maybe I'm just used to it.
Other than that, I love Merlin.
Betsy
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM Ann Brice <carolinabirds...> wrote:
> I have been frustrated with Merlin lately because it seems slower to
> identify common birds, leaves lots of songs unidentified and can't hear as
> well as I can -- and my hearing has diminished over the last couple of
> years.
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> I don't know if there was an upgrade that has caused these problems or if
> it is related to the bird packs that I have loaded. I know that I was
> trying to identify a sparrow that I thought was a tree sparrow and my
> Merlin didn't have an entry for a tree sparrow. I loaded the North
> American bird pack and deleted whatever I had previously. I believe that
> is when I started having problems. I switched to the US: southeast. I
> think it has helped performance a bit but it's not identifying birds as
> well as last year. I had great confidence in Merlin in the past, but not
> any more.
>
> Was there just a NC bird pack in the past? Was there an upgrade to Merlin
> that caused these problems?
>
> Ann Brice
> Wilson, NC
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