diff --git a/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/cropped_face_image_view.dart b/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/cropped_face_image_view.dart
index cb7baff42..0da4129eb 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/cropped_face_image_view.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/ui/viewer/people/cropped_face_image_view.dart
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 import "dart:io" show File;
 import 'dart:ui' as ui;
 
+import "package:computer/computer.dart";
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import "package:flutter/widgets.dart";
+import "package:flutter_image_compress/flutter_image_compress.dart";
 import "package:image/image.dart" as img;
 import "package:logging/logging.dart";
 import "package:photos/face/model/face.dart";
@@ -40,6 +43,7 @@ class CroppedFaceImageView extends StatefulWidget {
 
 class CroppedFaceImageViewState extends State<CroppedFaceImageView> {
   ui.Image? _image;
+  final _computer = Computer.shared();
   final _logger = Logger("CroppedFaceImageView");
 
   @override
@@ -79,17 +83,32 @@ class CroppedFaceImageViewState extends State<CroppedFaceImageView> {
   Future<ui.Image?> getImage() async {
     try {
       final faceBox = widget.face.detection.box;
+
       final File? ioFile = await getFile(widget.enteFile);
       if (ioFile == null) {
         return null;
       }
 
-      final image = await img.decodeImageFile(ioFile.path);
+      img.Image? image = await _computer
+          .compute(decodeImage, param: {"filePath": ioFile.path});
 
       if (image == null) {
-        throw Exception("Failed decoding image file ${widget.enteFile.title}}");
+        _logger.info(
+          "Failed to decode image ${widget.enteFile.title}. Compressing to jpg and decoding",
+        );
+        final compressedJPGImage =
+            await FlutterImageCompress.compressWithFile(ioFile.path);
+        image = await _computer.compute(
+          decodeJPGImage,
+          param: {"image": compressedJPGImage},
+        );
+
+        if (image == null) {
+          throw Exception("Failed to decode image");
+        }
       }
 
+      final stopwatch = Stopwatch()..start();
       final croppedImage = img.copyCrop(
         image,
         x: (image.width * faceBox.xMin).round(),
@@ -98,7 +117,10 @@ class CroppedFaceImageViewState extends State<CroppedFaceImageView> {
         height: (image.height * faceBox.height).round(),
         antialias: false,
       );
-
+      _logger.info(
+        "Image crop took ${stopwatch.elapsedMilliseconds}ms ----------------",
+      );
+      stopwatch.stop();
       return convertImageToFlutterUi(croppedImage);
     } catch (e, s) {
       _logger.severe("Error getting image", e, s);
@@ -106,3 +128,11 @@ class CroppedFaceImageViewState extends State<CroppedFaceImageView> {
     }
   }
 }
+
+Future<img.Image?> decodeImage(Map args) async {
+  return await img.decodeImageFile(args["filePath"]);
+}
+
+img.Image? decodeJPGImage(Map args) {
+  return img.decodeJpg(args["image"])!;
+}