Why am I seeing different images on my site as an admin?

Topic summary

Main issue: After replacing placeholder images in a theme, the admin view still shows the old images while visiting the site in a regular browser shows the new images.

Context: A new store setup with a theme, placeholder images, buttons, and a few products. Images were swapped to newly created ones, but the discrepancy persisted when logged in as admin.

Action taken: The owner decided to delete the current setup and rebuild from scratch, noting they weren’t far along, to resolve the issue and other early problems.

Outcome: No technical cause or specific fix was identified in the thread. No additional troubleshooting steps or community responses are documented.

Status: Unresolved root cause; pending results from the full rebuild. No further updates provided.

Summarized with AI on January 15. AI used: gpt-5.

We are new here and just getting started. We started with a theme, added some images as place holders, buttons and a few products. Then we changed the images to the new ones we made. When i log in as admin i get the old images, but when i access the site from a browser I get the new ones?

How do i fix this?

We decided to delete it and redo it since we were having issues with it. We werent that far along so not alot wasted. Hopefully this works.