Photo man took in Montana and uploaded to internet ended up breaking people's Android phones worldwide

With the sun setting on Glacier National Park, Montana, keen photographer Guarav Agrawal took the opportunity to capture the moment, but had no idea that he would soon break the internet and Android phones worldwide.

Nothing beats the beautiful and colorful aesthetics that a sunset paints on our sky.

With the rays breaking through gaps in the clouds and kissing the mountain, it’s sometimes enough to take your breath away as you slip into an intoxicating state of zen.

But when capturing the moment and sharing it with his viewers on the popular social media platform Flickr, this man broke more than a few dozen Android phones.

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This picture has broken the internet, and your Android phones

Some of the best photography in the world happens in the spur of the moment. Take the most-viewed picture ever, for example, as one man snapped a hillside that would make thousands when sold to Microsoft.

Even now, the quality of phone cameras means anyone can capture amazing moments, like when the Las Vegas Sphere was watching a plane soar into the sky.

Amateur photographer Gaurav Agrawal from San Diego wasn’t as lucky in his viral moment, though, as his photo made a stir for breaking Android phones.

Uploaded to Flickr, the picture ‘unintentionally’ caused a bug.

As it was shot on a Nikon camera and edited in a software program called Lightroom, the ‘three color-mode’ export caused an error in Android Version 10.

Unfortunately, the glitch forced many Android phones to factory reset, wiping all the data from the existing memory files, including images that weren’t backed up.

Photographer forced to disable downloads of beautiful Montana sunset

The bug was first spotted back in 2020, and the man has since disabled downloads of his raw image.

“I didn’t do anything intentionally,” he told the BBC.

“I’m sad that people ended up having issues.”

“I didn’t know the format would do this,” he said.

“I have an iPhone, and my wallpaper is always a photo of my wife.”

The photographer has gone on to make a success out of his photography career, even featuring in National Geographic magazine.

“I hoped my photograph would have gone ‘viral’ for a good reason, but maybe that’s for another time.”

“I’m going to use another format from now on.”

It’s likely that Android phones have now found a way to host such images, but the photo will remain undownloadable in case anyone uses an older device.

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