When using Google auth, each login requires repeat consent

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When logging into my iNaturalist account using my Google account, I always get asked for consent for iNaturalist to access my Google Account. I always click ‘Allow’.

This wouldn’t be too annoying, except that each time I authorize this, I get a notification on my phone and in my inbox checking the activity.
Also, I cannot use Google Photos within iNaturalist.

iNaturalist should not need to be reauthorized every time I authenticate.

Things I’ve tried to resolve it:

  • Unlinking my Google account in Account Settings, and relinking it.

Other information:

  • I orginally setup my account against inaturalist.com, but switched over to inaturalist.nz
  • I am also authenticated against my Google account on the inaturalist andriod app without any issues.
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I too, am having to repeat permissions. I tried to unlink my account from google but didn’t manage it because a user (i.e. ME) already existed with that iNat email. I have just been enduring the repeated permissions and confirmations as my iNat data is too valuable for me to lose because I mismanaged it somehow. I will state that when I log on the android app with my phone it both requests and sends verification on the device.
I had been approaching it from the standpoint that somewhere, something in my google permissions was awry. I have reset and double checked these multiple times. Otherwise, I have just been tolerating it. If someone could direct me as to how to fix this I would be eternally grateful!

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Duplicate of
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/not-remembering-me-when-i-log-in/2426

Mods can perhaps merge

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I think they could stay separate since that user indicated they log into iNat using a username and password rather than Google.

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Pretty sure this cant be fixed, Google has pretty much locked out any external sites from using content at Google Photos, for example bbcodes wont work etc.

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That’s true for me as well, I just did not note it on the other thread as it did not seem relevant to the core issue of constantly having to authorize a Google login.

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Is this still happening for you?

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I’ve switched to using username + password instead of SSO through Google, so I’m not sure if the behaviour has improved with Google auth.

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If anyone has the same issue, open a new bug report.