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salinawphotography
Participant
January 30, 2018
Question

[LR Android] No preview of my pictures, just grey squares...

  • January 30, 2018
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Every time I go into the app, my pictures just show as grey squares. I have no thumbnail previews of my pictures. Only when I click on one does it load. So I have to click on each of my 3,000+ pictures to find the one I need. I have uninstalled the app several times and once I reinstall it works,  until I leave and try to come back in and it does it all over again. How do I fix this? This app is vital to my business, used it now for a very long time, even pay for the subscription and never had any issues until now. I need this app to work, so any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks. Using Android.

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8 replies

Participant
October 17, 2020

Same problem... please, need a solution ! 

Participant
April 28, 2020

yep the same thing is happenig to me. im on a paid subscreption still of no use. using the latest lightroom mobile version 

Digsplants
Participant
August 4, 2019

I've deleted cache, uninstalled, reinstalled, and still thumbnails are missing. It shows maybe every fifth one.

liam46821227
Participant
April 5, 2019

Same issue 2nd time around.  First time I uninstalled reinstalled and upgraded and it came back.  Not an ideal situation.  Need a permanent solution.

sukhn85052313
Participant
April 2, 2019

I am facing similar issue with my oneplus android OS. All folders and albums showing grey squares. There is no previews or thumbnails. It was working fine till yesterday but suddenly it went kaput. I had not upgraded OS or did anything different. Selecting one pic will load it but it takes time. When and how will this bug be fixed? With this problem the app is totally unusable.

Participant
December 10, 2018

I would also like to ask has there been a solution found for this?

It kinda makes the phone app unusable because I can't see any of the of my photos because they are all gray and when I click on the photo to maybe try to guess what one it might be it takes like 20-30 secs to pull up the image to find out it wasn't the photo I was looking for. Then sometimes it decides it won't ever show me the photo.

I'm also have Android but it sounds like it is happening on IOS as well so it doesn't really matter.

deepakg1988
Inspiring
February 9, 2018

Hi Salina,

Please follow the Kb doc mentioned in the below and send us the diagnostic report, so that we can troubleshoot the issue further

How to Enable diagnostic Mode in Lr Android

Thanks

Deepak

stephenl99831447
Participant
November 23, 2018

I'm having the exact same problem - was there a answer to this? Thanks, Steve

selondon
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 1, 2018

Are you running the latest version of the Lr Android App and also what version of Android software?

This may help others fix your issue.

Posting on here may help as Adobe employees monitor this regularly:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_lightroom_mobile

Participant
February 6, 2018

Hi,

I’m having the same issue on iOS 11.3 iPhone X

it only started when I set up my new iPhone.

I have to click on ‘get this photo‘ to be able to view them. Which still doesn’t become a thumbnail after that.

Any help would be great

Thank you.

greule
Inspiring
February 6, 2018

Could you try to run "Clear Cache" from the Lr Mobile settings->Local Storage. Let me know if that helps. - Guido/ Lr Mobile QE