Xamarin.forms: Xamarin Forms - Image Control not loading remote images in iOS

[vsfeedback]

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[regression] [worked-in:16.4]
In today’s WTF has randomly been broken;

Image controls won’t load images from a URL source in iOS:

<Image x:Name="MyImage" Source=“https://img-prod-cms-rt-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/cms/api/am/imageFileData/RE1MmB8?ver=6c43g”/>

This also no longer works:

MyImage.Source = ImageSource.FromUri(new Uri("https://img-prod-cms-rt-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/cms/api/am/imageFileData/RE1MmB8?ver=6c43g"));

And this also doesn't work any more:

MyImage.Source = "https://img-prod-cms-rt-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/cms/api/am/imageFileData/RE1MmB8?ver=6c43g";

It does work in Android. It did work in VS 16.4.

This is a work-around:

var client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient();
System.IO.Stream imagestream = await client.GetStreamAsync("https://img-prod-cms-rt-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/cms/api/am/imageFileData/RE1MmB8?ver=6c43g");
MyImage.Source = ImageSource.FromStream(() => imagestream);

--- ### Original Comments #### Visual Studio Feedback System on 5/7/2020, 11:14 PM:

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Original Solutions

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[wocar]

I confirm this bug.. and the frustration that gave me during 2 days not being able to solve this,

Here is my shorter form workarround:

foto.Source = ImageSource.FromStream(() => new MemoryStream(new WebClient().DownloadData(url)));

[samhouts]

What version of Xamarin.Forms are you using? This looks like the bug we fixed in 4.5.0 with https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pull/9682.

[wocar]

fixed it by upgrading Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.iOS thank you! Now works on iOS 13.5

[samhouts]

Great to hear! We were just as flabbergasted when this bug appeared. We hadn't touched the offending code in years. Turns out, async is hard. 😂 Thanks for confirming!

[kantagara]

This is still happening to me (latest xamarin.forms, iOS 14), and vsfeedback workaround still works, but I'd rather not do it like that 😅

[brporter]

I am also reproducing this on Xamarin.Forms 14.

[Ghadaaldjain]

This bug is still alive, remote images are not loading on IOS 14