# Explore settings should be persistent in all cases **URL:** \ **Category:** iNaturalist Next Discussion\ **Created:** [December 27, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-settings-should-be-persistent-in-all-cases/59782 "2024-12-27T16:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![misumeta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/misumeta/32/32226_2.png) [@misumeta](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/misumeta)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-settings-should-be-persistent-in-all-cases/59782/1 "2024-12-27T16:47:35Z")
I often start some kind of explanation not from the explanation asterisk but from somewhere else. In example I open someone’s profile and start to look what the person has posted and I might be helpful with IDs. Or I open a project and go through the observations. In both cases I can return to the exploration operations with the arrow on the upper left corner. I would prefer to have the same result when I use the asterisk instead. That is what I intuitively do not only because it needs less movement than to the arrow far away from the IDing buttons. ---
**Author:** ![albullington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/albullington/32/227_2.png) [@albullington](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/albullington)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-settings-should-be-persistent-in-all-cases/59782/2 "2025-01-06T22:21:49Z")
By the asterisk, do you mean the Explore button on the bottom nav bar? Or something else? ---
**Author:** ![misumeta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/misumeta/32/32226_2.png) [@misumeta](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/misumeta)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-settings-should-be-persistent-in-all-cases/59782/3 "2025-01-07T23:02:13Z")
yes, the explore asterisk in the nav bar. I prefer to use this because I don’t need to move from one corner of the screen to the oposite corner. ---
**Author:** ![kueda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kueda/32/20_2.png) [@kueda](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kueda)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-settings-should-be-persistent-in-all-cases/59782/5 "2025-01-13T22:32:50Z")
The Explore button is always meant to start a _new_ search, e.g. when you see it on a taxon screen, it’s meant to show you observations of that taxon, not to take you back in your navigation history. It is a bit confusing that you can have multiple “instances” of Explore in your navigation history, but we feel doing the opposite, as your requesting, might be even more confusing, e.g. you’re in Explore, you view an observation, you tap on a taxon, and you tap the Explore button and you jump all the way back to Explore with your previous filters set. ---
**Author:** ![misumeta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/misumeta/32/32226_2.png) [@misumeta](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/misumeta)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-settings-should-be-persistent-in-all-cases/59782/6 "2025-01-14T06:55:20Z")
Thx for discussing my idea. Though I still would prefer what I proposed I think whe can leave it there, essentially as there is no support from the community. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-settings-should-be-persistent-in-all-cases/59782/7 "2025-03-15T06:55:45Z")
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