Field Maps Personal Markup Upload to AGOL?

[DCRWBNERRCreator]

Hello, last week I was able to upload the markup layer to AGOL, which allowed me to use it in Pro and export it to a geodatabase. Today, I collected more markup, now called "personal markup", and could not find a way to upload to my AGOL account. The version of Field Maps on my phone appears to have automatically updated within the past few days. I have Version 25.2.0 on an iPhone 12 with iOS 18.6.2. 

If it's no longer possible to upload the markup layer to AGOL, how can I bring the markup into ArcGIS Pro?

Thank you,

Ryan

[HeatherMcCracken]

Hi Ryan,

The ability to share markup directly to the organization in Field Maps has been officially retired. You can review the deprecation and retirement notice here: https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/deprecation-arcgis-field-maps-sharing-markup-to-organi... 

In Personal Markup in the new generation of Field Maps, users can share it peer-to-peer but can no longer share it directly to the organization. It would be great to hear more about your specific scenario, if you are able please share your use cases for sharing markup to the org so we can learn about your needs. It might also spur some other ideas for us to suggest here to help you satisfy this workflow ...

Thanks for your question and your feedback
Heather

[JordanZ]

Hi Heather,

I work as a field biologist and I'm kind of devastated to see this feature removed. I do a lot of project-level vegetation mapping and markup has became integral to my workflow. Markup was so much better than sketching on a paper aerial map. We had customizable colors, label categories, embedded notes. I could quickly sketch, edit, and delete as needed while walking through the field, then bring this back to the office in ArcPro for the clean digitization. This was a real game-changer. See attached screenshot if you'd like a visual.

I understand ESRI probably wants us to collect all data straight into feature layers, but considering the number of edits and refinements in the field, this is way too clunky with the vertex-by-vertex editing. "Drag map, tap, drag map, tap. Select vertex, delete..." etc...

Please consider some method to import these new .markup files into ArcPro, with or without AGOL. I suppose I could go through the process of geo-referencing markup screenshots prior to digitization but that feels like a huge step backwards (and loses all label and notes metadata). 

Thanks

[BiosisGIS]

Hi Heather,

This has come as a bit of a shock for our organisation as well. We have over 80 Field Maps users across the business doing mapping of ecological and archaeological features.  The ecologists in particular like to use markup to capture data on site that doesn't fit within our enterprise schemas and are unexpected, so can't easily be planned for ahead of time. They like the ease and flexibility of using mark up to capture this, especially as the polygon editing experience in Field Maps is less than idea for capturing natural features with complex boundaries. 

They were sharing these markups with the GIS team by being able to upload them our portal. They were also  able to view their markup alongside other maps that had additional layers that we don't want to push to every field map due to their drag on the efficiency and reliability of Field Maps.

We now appear to have no way to access the markup data in Pro or in web maps and will have to rapidly figure out work arounds and new methods to achieve the same goal.

Kind regards,

James.