Is there supposed to be a way to use multiple of the photo browser refinements at the same time? ('Juvenile+Alive', 'Evidence of Presence:Organism + Male', etc )

I don’t really know if this counts as a bug or not, but I wanted to ask if there’s an easy way to do this, because I would really like to be able to crossreference Juvenile + Alive for certain species so I can try and make sure about identifications without having to wade through tons of partially decomposed specimens in Juvenile or tons of Adult specimens that drown out all Juvenile examples in Alive. Every time I try to have the life stage filter and the dead/alive filter on at the same time, the other one turns off when I’m just using the photo browser, and I can’t seem to find a good way to use multiple projects to filter stuff down on the main advanced search either…

I feel like I remember being able to use them at the same time at one point, but I could be misremembering…? Is there an easy way to do this that I’m just missing? Thank you for the help, and apologies if this is reiterating something already covered in Tutorials, I tried reading through them and got very confused, very fast.

tldr version: is the way that these filters up top only allowing me to use one at a time normal, or is there a bug on my end? For context I’m talking about this bit of UI.
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Every time I turn one one of the filters and try to turn on another the first one I turned on flips off, which is sometimes frustrating when a huge portion of the ids of a given species are half-decomposed roadkill or skeletons, and I want to specifically see what a young member of the species looks like when it’s alive.

Oh and putting this in General because I legitimately don’t know if this counts as a Feature Request or a Bug Report, on account of not being sure of my memories of being able to use multiple filters at once is accurate or not. Apologies if I’m repeating myself, again thank you.

I can confirm same thing happens to me (browser, Opera), clicking any given filter instantly toggles off the previous one

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I asked the same question here a while back. You can do what you’re describing, but only through editing URLs. It’s a little bit of a pain but works.

See:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2-of-2/18792
and
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filter-by-multiple-annotations-at-a-time/59288

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Ah, I see, thank you so much!!
/edit can’t seem to get the without term id thing working properly in any capacity unfortunately :pensive_face: that’s part of why i was confused at the tutorials

Try pasting the without term text into the URL twice/two times, I had the same issue and doing it twice worked

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