Region-specific names not show in iOS 14.2 app

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): iOS 14.2

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): 3.06 build 610

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: general feed of my observations

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): Common names of organisms shown for wrong locale. I am in Australia using iNaturalistAU and these plants have Australian-specific common names, yet the generic English names are shown (which happen to be NZ-specific, but that’s another story). My profile is set to not show common names at all, but the app does not respect this either.

Step 1: open app

Step 2: select ‘Me’ tab

Step 3: names are shown for the wrong region

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What region is your phone set to?

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Region = Australia
Languages = English & Spanish.

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Looks related to a recent change, which has since been rolled back. Are you seeing the Australian names now?

https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAPI/issues/89#issuecomment-740142965

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No, I’m still seeing NZ names shown in preference to Australian ones. I still have v3.0.6, build 610, my phone is not showing pending updates for the app.

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The update was on the server side, an app update isn’t necessary. Did you refresh your observations and/or sign out and sign back in? That might be needed.

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I had to sign out and sign back in again, and this fixed the problem.

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