Platform: Android-app App version number, if a mobile app issue: 1.36.8 (628) Browser, if a website issue: Not a website issue URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Screenshots of what you are seeing: [inatwtf2] Description of problem: Step 1: Start typing the name …

Polite-ified for them what don’t appreciate my sense of humor…

when searching on taxon in the Android app, i find that it’s better (more reliable) to search using the Explore page than using the (universal) search in the My Observations page, even when searching only for my own observations. i would guess that the way the search on the My Observations page is …

You’re right, it does work in explore. It’s still a bug though, because when searching within my observations it does what I’m describing here.

Bug in Android search function

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jakub_liptak September 22, 2025, 6:24pm 5

This annoys me too.

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Bug in Android search function

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