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 (iOS): App version number: 3.2.6, build 670, iOS 16.1.1 Browser: Firefox…

OK, I think I figured out what’s going on here. The MO importer is formatting the observed_on_string in a way that the iOS can’t read. If I look at your observation ’s JSON I see this: [image] Whereas if I look at one of my observations that shows properly in the app, I see this: [image] When I…

I can’t offer much help myself, but it might help others if you could post a link to one of the observations that you notice the issue on.

[image] This is a screenshot from my app after clicking on edit.

[Screenshot (2)] This is a screenshot from my laptop (via Mozilla). Note that the date is included here but is not included in the same observation viewed in the app.

Welcome to the forum! I’m not sure what tool you’re using to import or what exactly it’s importing, but if I were troubleshooting, I would start with the raw unicode emdash in the description field: [image] At any rate, iNat definitely does have the observed_on date, it’s just the iOS app having…

Thank you, first of all, for the thoughtful response and the welcome. I’m using a program designed specifically for the importation of Mushroom Observer data into INat. Perhaps a silly question: Can I delete the app on my phone and download a more recent one? Or does that effectively delete my acc…

If you have synced all your observations from the app to iNat proper, you can safely delete the app and nothing will be lost. But you said you have 3.2.6 and that’s the newest version of the iOS app. The new cross-platform React app hasn’t been released yet (and I don’t have any information on whe…

Observation dates appear on browser but not in app

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Observation dates appear on browser but not in app

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