URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?sounds=false&photos=false&verifiable=true Pretty sure this one’s a real bug, not one for the pinned thread . I don’t think it’s been reported yet. From the help page: A verifiable observatio…

Coud it be the same situation as when the observation was synchronised with another website, like flickr, and photos are deleted there after the observation got RG?

This isn’t a solution, but just a note that triggering reindexing by voting/unvoting in the DQA did fix all the ones I checked, i.e. they changed from Needs ID or RG to Casual.

[image] marina_gorbunova: synchronised with another website, like flickr, and photos are deleted there If I’m remembering correctly, iNat used to link out to photos hosted elsewhere, but now they’re all copied over. So for recent observations, deleting the outside photo shouldn’t have an ef…

I wasn’t able to replicate it via the website or Android app (1.19.7 / 429) by manually removing the photo after the observation achieved RG. Create verifiable observation via website or Android app Use test account to agree with the ID, obs becomes Research Grade Edit observation via web or open …

I checked about two dozen of them and all but one were created with the Android app and had non-zero photo counts, so possibly related to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/disappearing-photos/13521 ? I did find one that was created via the website and that has a photo count of 0.

[image] jwidness: so possibly related to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/disappearing-photos/13521 Possible, but I doubt it, as everyone who’s reported that bug to help@inat still has all their photos on the site, they’re just not being displayed in the app. We’ll take a look.

Observations that are media-less but somehow verifiable (and some RG)

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Topic		Replies	Views
Observations with no media and verifiable? Bug Reports	2	183	December 4, 2024
Several of my observations have lost their photo Bug Reports	3	308	May 16, 2026
Obsevations with deleted photos are still verifiable Bug Reports web	5	473	June 2, 2022
Posts without images General	29	1871	March 20, 2022
Obs with photos found in search for obs without media Bug Reports	2	161	September 23, 2024

Observations that are media-less but somehow verifiable (and some RG)

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