Can't change assignee from the Assignee icon on a listed work item.

Question

For the past couple of weeks, on Jira Cloud the list of potential assignees doesn't get populated when clicking on the Assignee icon on a work item in the Backlog view. If I select the work item, in the right panel view, then I will be able to change the assignee. This only happens on some work items seemingly randomly.

Frederik Gareau · Answer

I've tried this but some tasks still don't have their assignees list populated. It's so random.

Frederik Gareau · Answer

That would be an unfortunate solution. There must be a better way?

Brant Schroeder · Answer

@Frederik Gareau welcome to the Atlassian community

In addition to what @Nikola Perisic shared you can also clear your browsers cache.  Cloud products get updates and sometimes the browser is caching old JavaScript, CSS, etc. and needs the cache to be cleared in order to accept the updates.  This is dependent on your browser and browser settings.