# Identify leaping from Annotations panel to Info panel **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Tags:** web, identify, staff-can-replicate, issue-made\ **Created:** [February 15, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734 "2025-02-15T20:28:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WeeCorbie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/weecorbie/32/27710_2.png) [@WeeCorbie](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/WeeCorbie)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/1 "2025-02-15T20:28:37Z")
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): MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 **Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome and Safari **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: Add ID to any observation in Identify viewer Step 2: Navigate (Shift+arrow key) to Annotations panel (before Info panel updates) Step 3: Start adding Annotations (esp. with keyboard shortcuts). When Info updates the ID, the viewer automatically jumps to the Info panel, so whatever keyboard shortcuts you’re using to add annotations will screw up whatever ID you just added. This just started happening between yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon (EST). It means having to wait until the ID updates before moving on to the Annotations panel, which doesn’t sound like a big deal…but it is a big deal when you’re trying to move quickly through hundreds of IDs. I tried it on both Chrome and Safari and the issue is identical in each browser. ---
**Author:** ![matthewvosper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/matthewvosper/32/12194_2.png) [@matthewvosper](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/matthewvosper)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/2 "2025-02-16T23:02:28Z")
I have also noticed this, and I don’t think I’d seen it before ---
**Author:** ![matthew\_connors](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/matthew_connors/32/5817_2.png) [@matthew\_connors](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/matthew_connors)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/3 "2025-02-17T01:30:58Z")
Yep I’ve also just had this happen. Very frustrating and makes it difficult to ID in bulk quickly ---
**Author:** ![WeeCorbie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/weecorbie/32/27710_2.png) [@WeeCorbie](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/WeeCorbie)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/4 "2025-02-18T15:07:14Z")
I’ve also been getting a lot of “internal server error” popups, usually when I’ve been in another tab and then return to the tab with the Identify viewer open. ---
**Author:** ![rupertclayton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/rupertclayton/32/2745_2.png) [@rupertclayton](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/rupertclayton)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/5 "2025-02-21T18:55:13Z")
**Platform** : Website **Browser** : Tested in Chrome and Firefox, but I assume it’s not browser specific. **Description of problem** Step 1: Open Identify dialog (to Info tab), add an ID and click “Save” Step 2: Immediately navigate to the Annotations tab using Shift+Right, Shift+Right Step 3a: Use a keyboard shortcut to add an Annotation (e.g. P+L to add “Flowering”) Step 3b: At some point during this, the UI will get confirmation that the new ID from Step 1 was added and will change the focus to the Info tab. This then prevents the identifier from entering the Annotation in Step 3a as desired. Until recently, there was no change of focus (step 3b). This allowed identifiers to efficiently process a large volume of IDs and annotations. This change makes adding IDs and annotations within the same session unproductive. I’m guessing that this may be related to the code changes that were made for the taxon photo similarity update. Many thanks, Rupert ---
**Author:** ![natev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/natev/32/29855_2.png) [@natev](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/natev)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/6 "2025-02-21T19:04:03Z")
I recently began experiencing the same issue. ---
**Author:** ![Vireya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/vireya/32/10901_2.png) [@Vireya](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Vireya)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/7 "2025-02-21T20:54:57Z")
This one is about the same issue: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734) ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/8 "2025-02-21T22:46:18Z")
Added the above three posts to this topic. ---
**Author:** ![rupertclayton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/rupertclayton/32/2745_2.png) [@rupertclayton](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/rupertclayton)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/9 "2025-02-21T23:58:29Z")
I’m not sure if there was a code fix, but it looks like this focus grabbing behavior is not happening for me at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Vireya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/vireya/32/10901_2.png) [@Vireya](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Vireya)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/10 "2025-02-23T04:07:13Z")
I’ve been taking note of when this happens, and for me it only happens when I add a new ID. It doesn’t happen when I agree with a pre-existing ID. But from my testing, the behaviour seems quite consistent - it never happens when I’m just agreeing, and it always happens when the ID I added was new. ---
**Author:** ![matthew\_connors](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/matthew_connors/32/5817_2.png) [@matthew\_connors](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/matthew_connors)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/11 "2025-02-24T00:11:50Z")
Yes I have noticed the same, if I agree with a pre-existing ID it does not happen, but it happens even if I manually add an ID that is just an agreement. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/12 "2025-02-24T22:33:49Z")
Thanks, I can replicate. I made issue here: [https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4415](https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4415) ---
**Author:** ![iisips](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/iisips/32/16666_2.png) [@iisips](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/iisips)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/13 "2025-02-25T14:24:49Z")
I am experiencing the same bug on website (Firefox Version 135.0.1 (64-bit)). Currently adding annotations first to avoid focus grabbing. ---
**Author:** ![Vireya](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/vireya/32/10901_2.png) [@Vireya](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Vireya)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/14 "2025-02-27T19:20:51Z")
> [@Vireya](#): > > it always happens when the ID I added was new I seem to have found an exception to this - if I select the species from “Suggestions” I can then go to Annotations and the focus stays there - it doesn’t jump back to Info. I’ve only done this a couple of times, so I wouldn’t call it thorough testing, but thought I should make a note of it here. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/15 "2025-02-28T04:33:29Z")
This should be fixed now. Looking pretty good for me, but please test it out. ---
**Author:** ![bazwal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bazwal/32/109_2.png) [@bazwal](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bazwal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/16 "2025-03-01T12:20:35Z")
The problem is fixed now for me on Firefox-135.0.1. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identify-leaping-from-annotations-panel-to-info-panel/61734/17 "2025-03-01T17:19:56Z")