CV Not Appearing When IDing on Website

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website):
Website, Firefox
App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) :
FIrefox
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?page=2&iconic_taxa=unknown&place_id=any
Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):


Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
When I click on the textbox to type in an ID, some times even before I type in anything, CV pops up underneath with a list of suggested potential IDs (the 2nd screenshot is not this happening, but I just took a screenshot of suggested IDs to show what I mean). Most times it does not occur, and I don’t know why. However some days it does pop up. I tested this on several observations where the photo seems high quality enough to where I don’t think it is a matter of CV not finding any species to match, so I don’t think that is the issue here. Maybe there is a setting or something that I need to toggle?

Step 1: Open up the identify tab and click on an observation

Step 2: click on the button to add an ID, then click on the textbox to type an ID, but don’t actually type anything

Step 3: See if a CV ID comes up or not.

I would have thought the CV never gives a list on that screen. You have to go to the “Suggestions” tab to get any suggestions.

Added: The list you have given as an example is not a CV list - that’s the result of having typed “r”.

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there’s no bug here.

the CV suggestions dropdown menu appears only on the observation screen and the upload screen.

instead, the suggestions on the Identify screen appear on the suggestions tab, as vireya noted above.

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