Hello, Is it possible to get my observations back, I accidentally deleted it and I don’t have those photos anymore.

Staff are sometimes able to retrieve deleted content if it hasn’t been too long since the deletion. However, it is currently CNC, so I am sure staff are very busy. You should probably submit a ticket here: https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/tickets/new and ask.

Just a heads-up, we it’s rare that we’ll bring back observations deleted by a user unless there was a technical issue on iNaturalist’s end that caused the deletion (or bug that made it unclear exatly what would be deleted, such as the same observation being displayed twice in the app). This is why t…

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