This happens occasionally and I’ve finally gotten curious enough to ask about it. Today I was uploading this little plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120773212 I’d taken the photo with my iPhone rather than my usual camera and uploaded it through the app. CV correctly (pretty sure…

[image] anon83178471: I upload pretty much exclusively on the app because I’m faster that way, and the site gives different suggestions almost every time. can you provide a couple of screenshots that show an example of the app and the website giving you different suggestions? are the suggesti…

I cannot do a test in another area effectively. I’m in an area that iNat thinks is local for E. caespitosa. I can do a test from San Francisco and San Mateo counties, and there are no observations of E. caespitosa in those areas, but iNat still thinks E. caespitosa is there. The wrong id observat…

[image] pisum: like if you open up an existing observation in the app and the website right now, are you saying that it will give you different suggestions between app and website? When uploading an observation on the app, it will give me different suggestions than when I go back to that obse…

If I use the same observation from the experiment: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120821320 When I open it in the app and “Suggest ID” it gives me: [Screenshot_20220608-230237_iNaturalist] When I open it in the browser it gives me: [image] So what happens when you open this observa…

[image] pisum: can you provide a couple of screenshots that show an example of the app and the website giving you different suggestions? I tried to replicate the issue with an observation of a bird but it was a pretty clear shot and the suggestions were the same on both the site and the app. …

[image] onyxrat: So what happens when you open this observation in the phone app and you try Suggest ID? as noted before, i can’t reproduce your #6: [Screenshot_20220609-182547] [Screenshot_20220609-182603] if you open your observation via the Explore page in the app instead of from your …

[image] pisum: what are the suggestions that your app gives you when you go back and look at the observation? [image] Now it shows the same as it did on the site. Odd. So, same as the site but different from what the app initially said and also different from what your app says.

But you look at observation on website when you already added an id to it? Then that’s not odd that app gives you the same id after you uploaded it.

It’s not odd that the app shifts the CV suggestions after I assign an ID to it, but my ID wasn’t anything that was suggested. I question how it bounces around, I guess. And why it seems to bounce around accordingly to what I do but not what others do.

When I go back to this observation on Android and try to suggest the id it now shows me E. californica. I created a new observation with the same picture https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124352173 and it suggested E. caespitosa. I reopened the observation and tried again: still E. caespi…

Why does CV give different suggestions on the mobile app than on the website?

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Why does CV give different suggestions on the mobile app than on the website?

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