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Subtask icon not showing for some work items in the backlog

Seonyeong Choi November 4, 2025

This issue started occurring on November 3. When I create subtasks, the subtask icon no longer appears at the end of the parent issue’s summary in the Backlog view.

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This behavior also affects the board, as those parent issues are treated as if they have no subtasks.
I’m using a Team-managed project with the Scrum template.

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Waqas Mahboob
Atlassian Team
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November 13, 2025

Hi All, 

If the backlog/board contains over 5000 subtasks, the subtask display is inconsistent, as only the first 5000 subtasks are loaded and shown. This is identified as a bug and raised it here: JRACLOUD-96676 :inconsistent display of subtasks If there are many subtasks under work items
 

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Nikola Perisic
Community Champion
November 4, 2025

Hello @Seonyeong Choi 

I tried to replicate the issue you are having and everything worked well from my side. Have you cleared your cache, tried in incognito? Also, open your developer console of your browser, click on the pick element button and hover over the empty area, is something showing there or is it empty?

Seonyeong Choi November 4, 2025

I've just tried in incognito mode, but the problem still exists.
I also tested it on my laptop and a friend’s PC, and the same issue occurs.
Even when I hover over the area, nothing appears. As you can see in the image below, only the edit button shows up when I hover over that area.

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Nikola Perisic
Community Champion
November 4, 2025

Understood, yesterday, there was an active incident involving some errors: https://status.atlassian.com/

The issue has been resolved, it might take time to reflect on your side. If that doesn't work you would need to open a support ticket for Atlassian: https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

Seonyeong Choi November 4, 2025

Got it, thanks! I’ll wait and see if it’s fixed by tomorrow. :)

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