All photos duplicated after certain actions (Android)

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Platform: Android

App version number, if a mobile app issue: 1.27.2 (638)

Description of problem: When I do certain actions within an observation during upload, the observation seems to reload and displays “importing photo(s)” dialog again. All photos will be duplicated or re-imported (if one has been cropped, the original un-cropped version will be the second one. I cannot reliably duplicate it as it doesn’t happen every single time. But it is often enough to be an annoyance (it just happened on two of three I just uploaded from the app). The action can be almost anything. Identifying with CV, cropping a photo, adding to a project. All those will trigger the duplication sometimes (and sometimes not).

Step 1: Navigate to photos. Select photos for upload. Click Share and share to iNaturalist

Step 2: Within observation, do any of the actions I listed. Often times the photos will be copied.

I haven’t tried different methods of adding photos, like browsing to them from the add observation dialog. This is the workflow I’ve used for a long time and seems to be the most efficient way on Android. This has also been happening for months, so I don’t think it’s a new version issue.

Seems to be similar to the bug posted here:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photos-duplicated-when-using-crop-tool-in-app/13055

But that one is quite old, so I thought a new post would be warranted.

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I experience this on the android app too. It seems to happen intermittently.

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I get this pretty often, glad to hear it’s not just on my end. Cropping photos seems to be a big trigger for mine to have an error, but sometimes it seems to happen of its own accord.

I get a related (probably) bug that happens where I duplicate and crop a photo and then end up either losing that photo entirely, or having the cropped version revert to the original duplicate.

Sometimes it seems that playing with contrast/brightness makes the issue worse, I wish I knew more about how the app syncs, since I think that must have some bearing on the cause of this bug!

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I think it has more to do with returning to the main observation screen than it does the action you’re performing. Today I was cropping and ended up exiting without doing anything. Just pressing back triggered the import/duplicate bug.

I think it happened on all my observations today. Some of them multiple times. When you have 6 photos in an observation it gets really old deleting them one by one, sometimes multiple times per observation