Why are all my moth records now in Latin. Have I touched something in the App . I'm not very impressed if its now the norm.
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Try seeing what columns are displayed
When you look at your records there are a range of different columns that you can choose to view, many more than there is room for. It sounds like the one for common names has either been deselected or just moved to a lower priority. On the desktop version you would click on the spanner icon in the top right of the records list and then choose which columns you want and in what order - I'm not sure if it is the same on the app, but I'd be looking for something like that.
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Latin Names
Like others I am very irritated that I am seeing Latin Names inexplicably displayed on the iRecord Butterflies App. This is a change made by developers and clearly following inadequate testing and QA processes. Support responses that simply point you to a format to report this are frankly inadequate.
App: iRecord Butterflies
Issue: A record is entered in the usual way and appears on screen as common name (e.g. Brimstone). When initially entered it appears in My Records - Uploaded with the common name (e.g. Brimstone). At some point a little cloud symbol appears next to the record and the name now appears in Latin (.e.g I've no bloody idea what a Brimstone is in so called Latin).
Expected behaviour: Uploaded records should appear using the common names that were used to enter them, and as are displayed in the app when selecting what to enter. As it has for all the years since the App was launched.
Steps to reproduce: Look data entered by the app and past records.
When noticed: A few days ago, 25/5/2025
Frequency: Permanent change to display of entered data
Screenshot: Impossible to achieve with this interface
OS version: well its irrelevant but it is iOS 18.5
Pending updates: No
Available storage: About 7Gb of 64Gb
All of my butterfl recordings now show only the latin names in the app so I have no clue what some of them are. Please change back asap to the name we used when recording the original butterfly record. Very annoying!!