Gemini suddenly stopped generating images. It was working fine yesterday, but now everything's getting blocked.

The worst thing when you’re on a deadline for a client—same batch of prompts, generated hundreds of images a few days ago without issues, and today it just won’t give a single one. The icon spins forever and comes back empty. Tried restarting my phone, reinstalling, switching browsers—nothing works, it’s not a device problem.

Later found out from the community that it’s probably the safety filter tightening up again; the words haven’t changed, but the judging criteria have. My experience is to first rule out common pitfalls like network and account issues, then tweak each word one by one—rephrase any description that might get flagged, and it usually passes.

Getting stuck while racing a deadline really sucks. I’d suggest keeping a backup image generation channel handy—don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

The worst thing when taking commissions—client’s rushing you and everything on your end is all red.

As soon as the filter gets stricter, everyone’s screwed—and I didn’t even change a word in the prompt.

Backup channel +1, can’t rely on just one platform for commercial gigs.

No cap, just rephrasing it worked. I deleted a certain word and it was fine.

Rebooting and reinstalling is a total waste of time, it’s definitely not a hardware issue.

Google pushed this update completely silently, didn’t even send a notification.