Cloud_user_name when editing multiple features

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Is there a known limitations with using @cloud_user_name when editing multiple features at once? I am trying to attribute edit multiple features while tracking the latest person to make the edit. @cloud_user_name is returning a null value in this use case. It does work for editing a single feature or adding a new feature.

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How do you put the cloud username into a field? And how do you edit multiple features at once? This information might help in replicating your issue.

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I am using the variable @cloud_username to auto calculate a field added to the layer.

I attribute edit multiple features at once with the process about 2/3 of the way down this page, section titled ‘Multi-editing of attributes’: Digitize and Edit - Documentarea ecosistemului QField

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Hmm, I can confirm this doesn’t work. Must be a bug in QField.

A similar action in a QGIS project does work. Using the Multi-edit mode does populate other fields when a Default value is set for those fields.

I have created a bug report for this:

Also, when testing I noticed this only applies to @cloud_username and not to standard global variables.