iNat doubling my observation photos

Platform: Android

App version number, if a mobile app issue: 1.36.8

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301435708

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Description of problem: After my observation is synced and uploaded, it sometimes duplicates some of my photos.
As it happened several times, I know that when I delete the duplicate of that photo it also deletes the original.

Step 1: Enter https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301435708

Step 2: Have a look at the photos. The second one is duplicated.

Ive also been having a very similar problem lately but uploading using the website not the app. When I upload an observation from my android phone often every photo other than the first one is duplicated. However for me deleting the duplicate doesn’t delete the original

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Another weird thing I’ve noticed now is that in the website the duplicate is… gone!

Anyone else seeing the duplicate as well?

I think only one version of the photo exists, the app just displays the same photo twice?

How were the photos added to the iNat app?

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I uploaded them using the ‘choose files’ feature… as I always do.

I just saw the same thing, but under a different circumstance: I used the website to duplicate an existing observation and add a new picture. Then I reordered the pictures so that the new one is first and the original is second. Then I used the app to edit that observation and add a third picture. When I opened it (before adding the third picture), I noticed that the now-second (original) picture showed as doubled.

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