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[expo-media-library] Photos in library are not showing up

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Summary

Many photos from the library do not show up correctly when pulling assets from expo-media-library using getAssetsAsync(). This was initially reported to me by a user when downloading photos from whatsapp, which I confirmed as well as a developer in #10002. However, I have found that it is more than just whatsapp, but many photos saved from various places that arent taken directly from the camera roll.

Managed or bare workflow? If you have `ios/` or `android/` directories in your project, the answer is bare!

managed

What platform(s) does this occur on?

Android, iOS

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

42.0.0

Environment

  Expo CLI 4.7.2 environment info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 11.4
      Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 12.18.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.1/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.22.10 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.14.5 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.18.1/bin/npm
      Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    Managers:
      CocoaPods: 1.9.1 - /usr/local/bin/pod
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: iOS 14.5, DriverKit 20.4, macOS 11.3, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 3.5 AI-191.8026.42.35.5977832
      Xcode: 12.5.1/12E507 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      expo: ^41.0.0 => 41.0.0 
      react: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1 
      react-dom: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1 
      react-native: https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-41.0.0.tar.gz => 0.63.2 
    npmGlobalPackages:
      expo-cli: 4.7.2
    Expo Workflow: managed

Reproducible demo or steps to reproduce from a blank project

save a photo from whatsapp
confirm the photo is in your recents or library folder
call MediaLibrary.getAssetsAsync() on your recents folder
The photo will not be in the pulled photos

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

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Joshandrews43commented, Jul 13, 2021

@yagudaev on this sample project i just made it seems to be working only sometimes. We both confirmed in #10002 that it was bugged, but on here i got about 4 photos to work and one not working… No idea…

https://github.com/Joshandrews43/media-library-issue

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next6leocommented, Sep 8, 2022

yea is not working in some android phone https://snack.expo.dev/@natysoz/expo-images-picker?platform=android