Platform: All. Although perhaps related to the Android app? App version number: 1.21.10 (477) Browser: Firefox app on phone and computer URLs: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/73180862 Screenshots of what you are seeing: Screenshot 1: Image showing the ‘My Observations’ screen from the Andro…

It looks like the observation has been deleted, but your phone still has the basic observation details cached. When you try to retrieve the substance of the comments etc, it can’t find them. You can bring your phone back into sync by dragging down from the top observation listed, which will resync w…

I did not delete this observation. Also the observation does not disappear when I refresh the observations screen. As stated in the opening comment, there has been some kind of glitch.

I have something related that I’ve noticed with some IDs being deleted from my observations, specifically three that I’ve found so far are: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=125389&user_id=tesgeorge&verifiable=any https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?pl…

Well, id could be just deleted?

Mine was also research grade, confirmed as C. crassifolia by two people.

Oh, I didn’t know that was possible without showing the ID as withdrawn Thank you

You need to click on edit and there you can choose delete.)

So this observation of mine is likely just gone? Surely this is some kind of bug?

Hi @duncanross , I’d hold tight until an iNat staff member is able to take a look. In some cases they can retrieve deleted/missing content. If you sent the log files I’d follow up on that email with a link to this bug report if you haven’t yet.

Thank you! I will do that. Cheers

Glitched deletion of observation

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tiwane April 12, 2021, 8:58pm 12

I sent your log file to our Android developer, hopefully they can find something in it.

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Glitched deletion of observation

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