# With Mac no basemap is displayed in QField

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**Created:** [14 May 2025 02:53 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/with-mac-no-basemap-is-displayed-in-qfield/739 "2025-05-14T02:53:44Z")\
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Hi Everyone, I am working with a Macbook and an iPad 12.9. When I open a project in QField, I am not shown the basemap. A punklayer works. In QField I have a project folder Test\_qfield. And the following datasets: basemap.gpkg, Test.zip, and Data.gpkg. After opening the project I have a white page in front of me. When the project is loaded on an Android device it works. Does anyone have an idea if it is due to a setting?  
I have already made a phone call to Apple. They say that it must be related to QField.

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_Imported from [GitHub discussion](https://github.com/opengisch/qfield/discussions/3883) by @kerstin8 on 2023-02-05T16:27:23Z_

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**Post date:** [14 May 2025 02:53 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/with-mac-no-basemap-is-displayed-in-qfield/739/2 "2025-05-14T02:53:46Z")

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kerstin8 , if you basemap relies on JPG (for e.g. a JPG tiled basemap), it will not work on iOS. This is a known issue, you can follow updates on this here: [Can't load jpg datasets on iOS · Issue #3611 · opengisch/QField · GitHub](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/issues/3611)

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_Imported from [GitHub comment](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/discussions/3883#discussioncomment-4878373) by @nirvn on 2023-02-06T03:52:36Z_

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**Post date:** [14 May 2025 02:53 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/with-mac-no-basemap-is-displayed-in-qfield/739/3 "2025-05-14T02:53:47Z")

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Dear Mathieu,

thank you very much for your quick reply.  
I am glad that the problem is known. I am a QGis beginner and I have to search how to create a PNG grid with a PNW world file. I assume that it worked for you. 🙂

First of all thanks for your tip!  
Have a nice day!  
Kerstin

> Am 06.02.2023 um 04:52 schrieb Mathieu Pellerin _ **@** _.\*\*\*\>:
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> kerstin8 [https://github.com/kerstin8](https://github.com/kerstin8) , if you basemap relies on JPG (for e.g. a JPG tiled basemap), it will not work on iOS. This is a known issue, you can follow updates on this here: #3611 [https://github.com/opengisch/QField/issues/3611](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/issues/3611)  
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_Imported from [GitHub comment](https://github.com/opengisch/QField/discussions/3883#discussioncomment-4887171) by @kerstin8 on 2023-02-06T21:49:00Z_