# Cannot upload images with Safari

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-upload-images-with-safari/232563>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [July 11, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-upload-images-with-safari/232563 "2022-07-11T22:05:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-upload-images-with-safari/232563/37 "2022-07-26T02:34:23Z")

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Yeah we are going to sort this out, bear with us, so sorry it is taking so long.

It is very hard to feature detect this problem we have a few options at hand

1. Instead of putting a placeholder of `uploading ...` we swap our placeholder to use …

2. Use a “regex” replace that is not sensitive to this

3. Disable execCommand as the mechanism for inserting text in this instance (it is pointless anyway, given pasting the image will corrupt undo stack anyway)

4. Just have execCommand stuff behind a site setting, disabled by default

or a combination of some of these.

It is on Davids list, and we are tracking.

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