Count and taxon names inconsistency across iOS devices

The following screenshots were taken simultaneously from the iOS app with two different devices after refreshing the cache: An iPhone 7S and an iPhone XR. Both running the latest iOS and iNat app version.

Note the inconsistency in total observation count and, weirdly, the taxon name for Phoca vitulina.

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Are both devices in US-English?

Was the phoca vitulina observation created on one of the iPhones and then synced on the other?

Yes both devices are US-English.

I use them alternatively for posting to iNat, but I was assuming after refreshing from the server everything would be in sync, observations, upload stats, comments/IDs etc.

I just checked and that observation now correctly displays “Common Seal” on both devices and the counts are now identical :white_check_mark:

Must have been a temporary sync glitch.

Do you remember if you used computer vision to pick the species, or if you typed a name into the search bar?

I am pretty sure I used the classifier but I am not 100% confident.