Geolocation is hidden but is claimed to be open

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App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under About in the side menu):
051.0(120)
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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:
Open an observation with (by default) hidden geolocation
Step 2:
Move to details
Step 3:
Geolocation is hidden (correctly) but the text claims it’s open

I assume this is not one of your own observations?

It is not my observation

I’ve been trying to reproduce this by looking at other users’ obscured observations, and so far everything I’ve checked matches what we have on the iNaturalist website. Sometimes geoprivacy shows as open, and sometimes it shows as private on web for obscured observations. I think the important thing here is making sure we have web parity, so would love to know if there’s an an example observation where we’re not being consistent with web.

Fwiw, the geoprivacy description reflects what the user who posted the observation set as that observation’s geoprivacy status. So an observation can be obscured for conservation reasons, even if the user wanted the geoprivacy to be open. In that case, the observation would show as obscured, and geoprivacy would say “open.”

Okay. That would be an explanation that would be good enough for me. I haven’t realized this as intended.

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