# Images | Homey Apps SDK

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/images-homey-apps-sdk/135181>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [April 22, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/images-homey-apps-sdk/135181 "2025-04-22T07:14:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludvig](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ludvig/32/129091_2.png) [@Ludvig](https://community.homey.app/u/Ludvig)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 7:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/images-homey-apps-sdk/135181/1 "2025-04-22T07:14:52Z")

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Im developing the Spacey Plan app

> [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Spacey Plan - Interactive Floor Plan Widget for Homey Dashboard](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-spacey-plan/132628):
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> Spacey Plan Interactive Flor Plan Widget for Homey Dashboard Where to get it What is Space Plan? Space Plan is an app that allows you to create a floor plan of your home and use it to interact with devices. Usage Create Floor under Settings (Dashboard or Device) Add your devices and position them on the floor Create rules to style and set behaviors Go to Dashboard and add widget Select your floor Have fun Supported device capabilities On/Off Dim Alarm Motion Al…

Im allowing the users to upload a floor plan image. First I used a bses64 encoding storing on the settings object in Homey. This is retained between app resinstalled. The issue however is that this very limiting of size of the object.

So I switched to Image support which would have worked great

> **[Images | Homey Apps SDK](https://apps.developer.homey.app/advanced/images)**
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> Images can be used in various places throughout Homey, such as album art for speakers, camera devices and in Flows.

However what I see is that images are not retained when the app is updated or installed. I thought this was only connected to me when I did development but I see now its not. When user gets my updates for the app all images are lost. Meaning they will have to reupload them.

Is this really how this works?

I found this now maybe that is the way:

> **[Persistent Storage | Homey Apps SDK](https://apps.developer.homey.app/the-basics/app/persistent-storage#app-userdata)**
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> There are various ways to store persistent data within your app.

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**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/images-homey-apps-sdk/135181/2 "2025-04-22T12:35:59Z")

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@Ludvig I do see this happening aswell for my apps now. Which was never the case, the urls were persistent and the images were kept on every update.

I’ll forward this in slack to Athom