Platform: Android / Website App version number, if a mobile app issue: version was 1.36.8 but issue persisted after updating to 1.38.2 Browser, if a website issue: Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Screenshots of what you are seeing: [image] [29864] [29…

[image] Delay adding record to Andoid app Are you refreshing your observation feed in the app by pulling down and releasing on the list? (moderators probably need to close the previous bug report.)

2 questions: Just to be sure, have you tried trying to scroll up past the top of the list? That initiates a refresh. Sometimes mine don’t show up on the phone for a few days until I do that. Second thought: There was a time where I had just started using the phone app after I already had a couple …

Yes, I’m refreshing by pulling down. Have closed the app and updated it too.

I’ve been a long time app user. All my observations are (and have been) on there for quite some time now, except for the recent bunches which haven’t been syncing. I actually only started adding observations through the website recently when I got a camera, and I’m usually adding at most 10-15 obser…

if you’re absolutely sure that doing a pull refresh on your my observations page in the app isn’t updating the observations, you should probably generate a log file and send it to staff.

Confident that I’m doing a pull refresh. Thanks for the advice, I’ll have to read up on how to do that later because it’s late at night for me

To send a log file, go to the About tab in the app and tap three times on the app version number. You will then have the option to send debug logs - you can email them to help@inaturalist.org

Got it! It may not get to our engineers until next week.

Observations uploaded via the website don't sync to phone

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pisum May 14, 2026, 5:59am 2

(moderators probably need to close the previous bug report.)

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Observations uploaded via the website don't sync to phone

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