Creating something and finding out Midjourney isn’t creating images is something that is pretty frustrating. You type a prompt, press Enter, but no action takes place — or perhaps even a cryptic error message that provides no meaningful detail. Fortunately, most of these problems have simple solutions, as there is no need to be technical to solve them. Here are the top 7 fixes that work and begin with the most common causes.
Why Midjourney Not Generating Images
It’s important to know why this occurs in the first place before jumping in and making a fix. There are several reasons why images are not being generated by Midjourney: an image is being generated too slowly, you have not yet registered or paid for your subscription, you are unable to log into Discord, the prompt you used is being filtered by the site, or there may be an issue with the browser or app on your end. You can solve a problem faster if you know what type it is so you can look for a solution in that class.
Fix 1: Check Midjourney’s Server Status
Your first step before you intervene on the settings you have is to see if MidJourney is experiencing issues. Midday and mornings can be very busy periods for Midjourney. Check if there are any events or performance-related warnings in effect at visit.status.midjourney.com. If the status page indicates an active problem, then simply wait it out: it will not be possible to solve a server-side issue by what you do here, but passing the time will help.
This is the most frequently encountered problem when people don’t get images from Midjourney and perhaps the least complicated factor to resolve since, as you can see, there is no need to take any action on your own.
Fix 2: Check Your Subscription And Remaining Credits
Incredible Gene will stop working if you’ve used up your monthly fast hours or your subscription is expired, even when things seem right. Midjourney is a credit-based system, so you won’t be able to generate content if you’ve exceeded your monthly fast hours or if your subscription has expired. Check Your GPU Time & Subscription Remaining in Account Settings from Midjourney. You can save up fast hours by waiting for them at your billing cycle, buying more, or by switching to Relaxed mode by typing /relax in Discord. This is a slower queue but doesn’t eat up fast hours.
If your credits have been exhausted, finding out that they are depleted is not such a dramatic event, as many users do not know that their assets have been depleted.
Fix 3: Reset Your Discord Connection
Midjourney works in Discord; a poor or lost Discord connection may result in failed generations. To ensure that this doesn’t happen again, close Discord completely (not just its window), and then reopen it again. When using the browser version of Discord, close out the tab and remove browser cache before reopening. If you’re on the desktop app, you should shut off and restart the app, not jump from one server to another.
If Midjourney isn’t producing images as quickly as you’d like, particularly if it suddenly began not producing images at the start of a session, a simple restart should resolve the issue.
Fix 4: Try a Simpler Prompt First
Content filters can simply stop prompts including specific words even if the action is entirely safe. This is because Midjourney’s content filters can easily block prompts with specific words, even if the behavior is harmless. If your generation appears to be working, but yielding no output, then switch your prompt to something very simple (two or as few as three words) and try a generation again.
Add your original details back section by section to determine which of the sections caused your block if the simple prompt is successful. Examples of common unintentional but relevant words used are those associated with violence, identifiable brands or terms for body parts in apparently artistic contexts.
Fix 5: Use the /imagine Command Correctly
This might seem like it would be intuitive, but it doesn’t always happen. Be certain you’re typing the /imagine command in the correct Discord channel for Midjourney so it works properly: Use this command as a slash command in the right Midjourney channel, not in an open group discussion in the chat box. Please verify that the Midjourney bot is active on the server and channel if you’ve joined a new one or changed channels in the past. A good way to test this is to use the /help command to see if it also responds.
Also make sure that you don’t accidentally enter a read-only channel; otherwise, any message you enter, and hence prompts, would pass silently.
Fix 6: Clear Discord Cache
Any cache (rebuild in Discord) can lead to all sorts of weird issues such as failed or stuck generations. Do this in the Discord desktop app by going to Settings → Appearance → Advanced and emptying the cache, or move to the local cache folder on your computer and delete the cache folder. If you are using a mobile phone, you can check and clear the App Cache from the mobile device’s storage settings.
Restarting Discord after being cleared is important to check a generation again. The fix does well in cases where Midjourney suddenly stopped producing artwork in a short time period, but now takes its time to miss.
Fix 7: Re-Subscribe or Re-verify Your Account
If after all of the above solutions fail, and you are sure that the servers are operating without problems, it can be a problem with account verification or account subscription linkage. Log out of the Midjourney website and log out of Discord, and then log in to both services again and ensure your Midjourney account has been correctly connected to your Discord account. Due to billed cycles or plan changes, it is necessary to reconnect your plan to Discord on an occasional basis.
If your subscription is listed as active on the site, yet you aren’t producing by generation in Discord, your final resort is to contact the Midjourney help channel from Discord directly, as these account limitations can’t be changed by the user.
When Nothing Works
Once you’ve exhausted all 7, the single most likely explanation is that there’s an issue that is currently happening on Midjourney’s end that hasn’t yet been released on their status page. If so, then a quick search on the Midjourney post-sales pages located in its own Discord server will tell you if it’s a wider problem or just something he has experienced.
Don’t forget to also give Twitter/X a casual look at “Midjourney not working”, as when there’s a real issue, this will see updates from actual users before official status updates.
Final Thoughts
Most of the time, images don’t get created in Midjourney if there is a “problem”; it’s something simple like a server status, credit limit, or even a simple Discord connection issue — which are all easily troubleshooted within the next few minutes when you know where to look. Do the seven “fixes” above from top to bottom – no technical skills or assistance required – and you will solve the problem in most instances.