Can only see scientific names in Seek

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website):
iOS most recent version

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):
2.12.14(217)

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) :

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: Scientific name is displayed when scanning

Step 2: I go to settings and switch Seek’s Camera to Regular names (in Dutch: Gewone Namen)

Step 3: Camera still only displays Scientific Names

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Hi @saberbe, welcome to the iNaturalist Forum and sorry you’re experiencing this issue. I tried changing my phone language to Dutch and testing this out in Seek 2.12.14 (217) on iOS 14.7.1 (iPhone 11) but wasn’t able to replicate the issue.

Could you share a couple screenshots or examples of species that display only the scientific name on the camera view? I wonder if could be that they just don’t have a Dutch name entered into the system.

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Hello and thank you for your reply.

I have the same settings as you do, but the scientific name is displayed for all cases.
For instance;

I do notice that whenever that’s the case, the name is in italic. When the app is still trying to work things out, a dutch classification is given, and then text is regular;

Thanks for sending screenshots! Looks like there isn’t a Dutch name set for those taxa on iNaturalist.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/67710-Sansevieria-trifasciata
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/69223-Epipremnum-aureum
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/122318-Platycerium

(except for that last one: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47124-Magnoliopsida)

You can add a name in Dutch by going to the Taxonomy tab for any species/taxon, then clicking Add a name (Naam toevoegen) on the lower right.