Opting-out of Community ID is only available when your own ID differs from IDs put by others. For the times when you can anticipate needing to toggle a specific observation to opt-out, it would be handy to not have to wait for the differing ID. Similarly, the option to toggle off the opt-out should…

Now you should have a bunch more votes. :)

I recently ran into this as well and checked to see if someone had already put in a question/request about this. An example use case is e.g. for wild seedlings that will likely get bumped back to some higher taxon because “you can’t identify the species.” I understand most often this is done to kee…

I’m going to close this request. There’s an option to opt out by default, or you can follow your observations and opt out when you feel it’s necessary.

Allow community ID opt-out at all times

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Implement a new filter for observations that opt out of community ID Feature Requests	16	1650	October 10, 2023
Change to the way opting out of Community ID works(was: (Almost) always display community ID) Feature Requests	10	1567	September 11, 2025
Needs ID but has opted out of Community Taxon General	27	2655	July 19, 2019
Opt-Out Observation Designated "As Good as It Can Be" General	14	682	August 28, 2021
Why does community ID honor "Opt out of community ID"? General	16	1834	June 8, 2021

Allow community ID opt-out at all times

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