Mobile display issues across multiple Shopify stores: product/home images don’t appear on iPhones (often only text shows), galleries show only the first image, and arrows/thumbnail scrolling don’t work. Some also report logos missing on mobile or in Shopify emails.
Observed patterns:
Affects various themes (e.g., Supply, Brooklyn). Desktop and theme preview look fine; failures occur on real devices. Safari on iOS (e.g., iPhone 11 Pro Max on iOS 14.4.2) fails while Chrome may work. Issues can be intermittent (duplicating a product temporarily helped one store).
Suspected causes and fixes:
CSS hiding images on mobile (e.g., classes like .custom_showcase__1 or .visible-xs with opacity 0). Suggested overrides in theme CSS (responsive.css/theme.css/theme.scss.liquid), such as setting .visible-xs { opacity: 1; } and removing mobile-hiding rules; hiding interfering elements like .sc-badge-container.
Third‑party app conflicts (notably Langify). Disabling apps to isolate the issue identified Langify as the cause for one store; resolved after working with the app’s developers.
Actions taken:
Requests for URLs, screenshots, and device/browser details; testing on real devices/BrowserStack. Some cases not reproducible by helpers.
Status: No universal fix; case-by-case troubleshooting continues. One case resolved via app developer; others pending more info. Screenshots/console errors are central to diagnosis.
All images load fine, but my main page the blocks don’t load the images on iphones, but only show the text.
Even on the preview it looks as its designed to work this way.
Im sure somewhere in the CSS its hidden somewhere to hide images on iphones, does anyone know where to look and what to look for, just a rough idea and ill figure it out.
everything looks okay when you view on desktop in mobile view but having issues on the website viewing on actual mobile website with the hamburger menu on product page + also the additional images on product pages are not appearing below nor are the arrows working. Any help with this would be much appreciated!!!
Images will load on desktop perfectly, but then on mobile you will only be able to see the first products image, all additional images are ‘grouped’ into a single section and are not selectable.
Hi Ketan, maybe you can help us as well. None of our product images are being shown to customers on mobile devices. Website is www.romancehelpers.com. Do you know how to fix this? Thanks, Ally
First of all, many thanks for your prompt response.
Let me clarify that the images in the product page do not load only on some
mobile phones (nobody has complained about desktop). For example, a
colleague with an iphone 11 pro max using mobile safari ios 14.4.2 cannot
load the product page images (see attached)
However, her husband who has iphone 11 pro (not max) using mobile safari
ios 14.4.2, can load the product page correctly.
Many customers (with android phones also) have also complained about this.
Your kind assistance would be enormously appreciated.