Twitter Not Loading or Showing Pictures? Try These 11 Fixes

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Does the Twitter app or website have trouble loading pictures on your mobile phone or desktop? If so, there are a few things you can do to fix it.

Twitter can stop loading or showing images and GIFs for several reasons. It could be your internet, a corrupt application cache, or some random server-side issue.

Read on to learn how to fix Twitter not loading or showing pictures on iOS, iPadOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.

1. Check Twitter’s Server Status

It’s best to begin by ruling out server-side issues from the equation. To do that, head over toTwitter’s official API status pageor a third-party website monitoring tool likeDownDetectorto check if everything’s OK with the social media platform. If there’s an outage, wait until Twitter resolves the issue.

2. Check Your Internet Connection

Next, check your internet. Do other websites or apps load slowly as well? If they do, here are several quick fixes to try out on your smartphone or desktop device:

If that doesn’t help, check our guide totroubleshooting and fixing a slow Wi-Fi.

3. Force-Quit and Re-open Twitter

Force-quitting and relaunching Twitter can be a quick way to fix image loading issues with the app. On mobile devices, open the app switcher, swipe away theTwittercard, and relaunch it via the home screen.

If you’re using the Twitter app for Windows and macOS, it’s a good idea to shut it downusing the Task Manageror Activity Monitor before relaunching it.

4. Disable Virtual Private Network

VPNs (virtual private networks) often stop Twitter from displaying images within tweets. If you have a VPN set up on your mobile or desktop device, disable it or connect to a server from another region and try loading Twitter again.

5. Disable Ad-blockers or Content Blockers

Twitter occasionally stops working if you have an ad blocker on your web browser. Disabling it or adding Twitter to its exceptions list could make a difference.

6. Check Data Usage Settings

If the issue persists, ensure that Twitter’s built-in data usage settings aren’t restricting the app or web app from loading images.

On the Twitter app for desktop and mobile:

Tap your profile portrait on the top-left of the screen.
SelectSettings and privacy.
TapAccessibility, display and languages.
TapData usage.
DisableData saver.
TapHigh-quality imagesand pick theOn cellular orWi-Fi. If you also have trouble with the video, select theHigh-quality videocategory and allow high-quality video playback on mobile data and Wi-Fi.

On the Twitter web app for desktop, you must:

SelectMore>Settings and privacyon Twitter’s sidebar.
Go toAccessibility, display and languages>Data usage.
DisableData saver. Unlike the Twitter mobile app, you do not have additional options to decide between loading high-quality images and video.

7. Disable Data Saving Modes

On mobile devices, disable data saving for mobile data and Wi-Fi on the system level and check if that fixes Twitter’s image loading issues.

On the iPhone and iPad:

SelectCellular/Wi-Fion your iPhone’s Settings menu.
TapCellular Data Optionsor your Wi-Fi network’s SSID.
Turn off the switch next toLow Data Mode.

If you use an Android:

Open theSettingsapp on your Android and tapNetwork & internet.
TapData Saver.
Turn off the switch next toData Saver. Or, tapUnrestricted dataand activate the switch next toTwitter.

8. Update to the Latest Twitter App Version

Older iterations of the Twitter app can cause lots of trouble, so try updating it to the latest version. To do that, search forTwitteron the App Store, Google Play Store, or Microsoft Store. Then, tapUpdateif you see the option.

Android users: If you sideload Twitter’s Android app, downloading and executing the latest Twitter APK file from an APK repository like APKMirror will replace the older version.

If the issue occurs while using Twitter on your desktop, we strongly recommend that you update your browser. For example, if you use Chrome, just open theChrome menuand go toHelp>About Google Chrometo initiate an update.

9. Clear the Twitter App Cache

A corrupt Twitter cache is another reason that can prevent images from loading on mobile and desktop. Clearing the app data will force Twitter to download everything from scratch.

On Android devices:

Open Android’sSettingsapp and tapApps>Twitter.
TapStorage and cache.
TapClear cache.

On iOS, Windows, and macOS devices:

Select your Twitter profile portrait and pick theSettings and privacyoption.
SelectAccessibility, display, and languages>Data usage.
TapMedia storageand selectClear media storage.
Head back to the previous screen.
SelectWeb storage>Clear all web storage.

Try clearing the browser cache if you use Twitter on a web browser. Again, taking Chrome as an example, typechrome://settings/clearBrowserDatainto the address bar on a new tab and pressEnter. Then, check theCookies and other site dataandCached images and filescategories and selectClear data.

10. Log Out and Sign Back In

Logging out and back into Twitter is another fix that can help.

On the Twitter app:

Select your profile portrait and pick theSettings and privacyoption.
SelectAccount information.
SelectLogout.

On the Twitter website, select your profile portrait on the lower-left corner of the screen and selectLog out.

After logging out, sign into the Twitter app or website again using your Twitter account credentials.

11. Remove and Reinstall Twitter

If none of the above solutions help, you might want to consider removing and reinstalling Twitter. That should reset any corrupt network permissions and other underlying issues preventing the app from working correctly.

To remove the Twitter app:

Next, re-download the Twitter app via the App Store, Play Store, or Microsoft Store and log into your Twitter account.

Twitter Image Loading Issues Fixed

Server outages aside, Twitter’s image loading issues are generally easy to resolve. Usually, it’s just a matter of the internet being flaky or some random glitch messing things up. If not, take the time to work through the rest of the fixes, and you should be able to get Twitter to load images as usual.

Dilum Senevirathne is a freelance tech writer and blogger with three years of experience writing for online technology publications. He specializes in topics related to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Google web apps. When he isn’t hammering away at his Magic Keyboard, you can catch him binge-watching productivity hacks on YouTube.Read Dilum’s Full Bio

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Twitter Not Loading or Showing Pictures? Try These 11 Fixes#

1. Check Twitter’s Server Status#

2. Check Your Internet Connection#

3. Force-Quit and Re-open Twitter#

4. Disable Virtual Private Network#

5. Disable Ad-blockers or Content Blockers#

6. Check Data Usage Settings#

7. Disable Data Saving Modes#

8. Update to the Latest Twitter App Version#

9. Clear the Twitter App Cache#

10. Log Out and Sign Back In#

11. Remove and Reinstall Twitter#

Twitter Image Loading Issues Fixed#

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