Identification help from iNaturalist

Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can.

Platform (Android, iOS, Website):

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) :

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:

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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: Post observation

Step 2: Click on ID box

Step 3: Wait for suggested IDs. At this point iNaturalist recently started suggesting “Plant” or “Bird” (for examples) as the ID instead of showing a similar plant or bird. If i erase the generic ID and try again then suggested specific IDs are listed. If I view one, when I return to the ID box the generic suggestion is back. This process is inconvenient and frustrating.

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Which platform is this on?

Yes, please fill in the template for bug reports - the info is requested because it is usually required for a meaningful answer. In this case, without the info requested in the template, and ideally a screenshot or two showing the behavior, we won’t be able to diagnose whether it is a bug, and if so, how to address it.

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I’m closing this, it’s been 17 days and no further reply from the OP.