Platform: Website Browser, if a website issue: Chrome, Edge URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify Screenshots of what you are seeing: [image] Description of problem: This bug occurs when I attempt to add observations …

This was happening to me also. For me, it was not just in Identify mode, but also when adding from the individual observation pages. I made a new traditional project to collect observations of feral oleander plants, and every observation I tried to add resulted in the “Observation already added” p…

[image] graysquirrel: I was able to find a workaround - it seems like adding an observation field requirement stops it from happening I was just able to add some observations to this project of mine , which has no field requirements. Worked in both Firefox and Chrome. Is it happening consiste…

OK, I was able to replicate and I made an issue. Only happens if you use the keyboard to add it, which @upupa-epops wrote in his OP here, sorry about that.

Error message when adding new observations to projects in Identify mode

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tiwane March 24, 2026, 8:53pm 5

This has been fixed.

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Error message when adding new observations to projects in Identify mode

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