# Turn off captive observations by default in the app **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Tags:** android-app, ios-classic-app\ **Created:** [June 19, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548 "2020-06-19T20:18:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![henicorhina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/henicorhina/32/2431_2.png) [@henicorhina](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/henicorhina)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548/1 "2020-06-19T20:18:06Z")
I’m moving this to the Feature Request from the Bug Reports forum after it was pointed out to me that this is a known design choice. That post is here: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discrepancies-between-range-maps-on-website-and-mobile-app/13495/3](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discrepancies-between-range-maps-on-website-and-mobile-app/13495/3) . Basically, the iOS app displays captive observations in the range maps by default, which greatly obscures/skews distributions for anyone looking for distributional information in the app (e.g. when deciding if a species that one is uploading is found in that region). Screenshots comparing the range maps on the app and the website are below. The additional observations from Arizona and Europe are of captive observations. The species is endemic to Baja California Sur. ![139ED6EB-75CA-4465-9209-57FAC2728E6A](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/1/1d07092ba5a1f3adf390acb19bfd475d4e531125.jpeg) ![6855A719-7E17-4A1C-A2FC-B6329E6EB870](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/f/faad075d9964bf0f2014bca7c4f5ac717ce5f10e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![stewartwechsler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/stewartwechsler/32/12579_2.png) [@stewartwechsler](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/stewartwechsler)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548/2 "2020-06-20T02:41:25Z")
I would support that. I don’t want to see captive observations in an observation map. ---
**Author:** ![alex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/alex/32/13_2.png) [@alex](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/alex)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548/3 "2020-06-21T02:31:35Z")
Good call, will fix for the next iOS release (currently in internal beta, but it’s a big, complicated release so I’m going very slowly). ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548/4 "2020-09-24T05:30:39Z")
Added an issue for Android [here](https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/issues/913) and reminded Alex about it now that 3.0 is out, although part of me wonders if it might backfire in situations where a user observes common garden plants and they don’t see any nearby on the map. However, in my experience those users are often not looking at range maps for suggested IDs. EDIT: whoops, looks like it’s working in iOS 3.0, at least in default view. If you tap on the map, you’ll see the casual obs. ---
**Author:** ![henicorhina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/henicorhina/32/2431_2.png) [@henicorhina](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/henicorhina)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548/5 "2020-09-30T16:11:10Z")
@tiwane I’m glad there’s progress on this! I’m seeing the same thing as you are in iOS, the default view is zoomed in to the non-casual (wild) observations, but if you click on the map the casual observations are still there. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548/6 "2020-10-20T21:23:29Z")
OK, this should be working for Android as well, so I’m closing the request. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/turn-off-captive-observations-by-default-in-the-app/13548/7 "2020-10-20T21:23:33Z")
Closed on October 20, 2020, 9:23pm UTC