HDR photos taken on iPhone load significantly slower after AnkiMobile 26.10 update

AnkiMobile (iPhone/iPad) Help
1

How to reproduce:

  • Take a picture on iPhone, wait it sync though iCloud Photos
  • On Mac, open Photos App and export that photo
  • Import the photo in a Anki card on Mac
  • Sync, then load the card on AnkiMobile

It worked completely fine on AnkiMobile 25.09 and every Mac version I used before.

Device:

iPhone 15 Plus, iOS 27.2, AnkiMobile 26.10

iPad Air M2, iPadOS 27.2, AnkiMobile 26.10

2

I have quite large high-resolution images in my decks (> 50MB). With the latest Anki update for iOS (26.10), these images are not loaded any more or it takes forever and the UI is unresponsive.

This is a regression compared to the previous version.

3

Thanks for the reports. To narrow this down: is it slow in the Browse list (stuttering or freezing while you scroll past notes with the large image), or on the card itself when you review it or open Preview?

5

In my case (HDR photos) the shutter occurred during both browse and review

6

Yes! The UI will become unresponsive (sometimes turning white in review or just stuck there for a while) which is a little bit annoying.