so hopefully these images will be available normally within the next few days."

Don't count on it. I made a thread about it in the SS forum and there someone reported that they had this happening to them already last month and images approved on March 12th were still not showing up in their port at this point. 

Unless you don't mind waiting weeks for the images to finally show up, your best option is probably to delete the approved image (you have to go to the catalogue manager and select a different image and then switch out the image ID as you also won't find these images in the catalogue manager) and re-submit and hope that they show up instantly next time.

After re-loading, I got 4 of my 6 photos into the image portfolio.

So, I will probably need to load 2 again.

Quote from: WD3 Photography on April 05, 2021, 01:57

so hopefully these images will be available normally within the next few days."

Don't count on it. I made a thread about it in the SS forum and there someone reported that they had this happening to them already last month and images approved on March 12th were still not showing up in their port at this point. 

Unless you don't mind waiting weeks for the images to finally show up, your best option is probably to delete the approved image (you have to go to the catalogue manager and select a different image and then switch out the image ID as you also won't find these images in the catalogue manager) and re-submit and hope that they show up instantly next time.

And after 5 or 6 threads, with four new in two days, the answer remains the same. "We're aware and looking into this." Plus the advice, don't upload again, they are already in the system.  Of course out of 300 million images, some people are panicking because a buyer might just want that one photo that's missing and oh my, we'd miss out on that dime? 

I can't see deleting and uploading and taking the chance that the newest might be rejected by the Bots? Also how much time do I want to spend deleting and uploading, what confidence is there, that they will actually be deleted, or kept for 90 days? Has anyone been getting rejections for duplicates? LOL 

But I suppose if anyone wants they can fight the system instead of just waiting for SS to figure out what's wrong.

Someone wrote on SS forum, they found two bugs with the system. I was tempted to write back, is that all you could find? This latest is situation normal for Shutterstock.

And after 5 or 6 threads, with four new in two days, the answer remains the same. "We're aware and looking into this." Plus the advice, don't upload again, they are already in the system.  Of course out of 300 million images, some people are panicking because a buyer might just want that one photo that's missing and oh my, we'd miss out on that dime? 

I can't see deleting and uploading and taking the chance that the newest might be rejected by the Bots? Also how much time do I want to spend deleting and uploading, what confidence is there, that they will actually be deleted, or kept for 90 days? Has anyone been getting rejections for duplicates? LOL 

But I suppose if anyone wants they can fight the system instead of just waiting for SS to figure out what's wrong.

I am not "panicking", but I had, for example, Easter related photos that were approved, but did not appear. What good is it to me if they appear in my port after Easter? Then I might just as well not submit them at all, or wait till next year.

Also, on Shutterstock it is hard enough to get an image "noticed" and become a regular seller as it is. A lot of it depends on luck: When you upload a photo, someone needs to buy it pretty soon, so it will move up the ranks, otherwise it will be lost in a black hole. But if you submit a photo and it only appears in the database 3 weeks later, it will appear on page page 52 from the start instead of the first page of the new image search. Your small chance to have that photo noticed becomes pretty much non-exitant and the photo is wasted completely.
This is not about a "dime", at least not for me. In every season I manage to get at least one seasonal photo of my dogs thrugh that will earn me a nice 3-figures sum. I put a lot of work into these photos and am not going to waste my chance with a photo because of some stupid random glitch.

So, yeah, of course I'll delete time-sensitive images and re-upload them if they don't appear in the database after having been approved. It's annoying, but it works. I don't have a problem with image rejections other than the rare really random ones like having a photo of my dog rejected for mature content and photos with property releases, because apparently reviewers have trouble noticing there are property releases attached . But the focus/noise rejections a lot of people seem to have problems with? Well, don't submit photos that are out of focus or have noise and you  should be fine.

And if you want to wait for SS to figure out what's wrong, you risk waiting a long time. I have had technical issues reported to them 2 years ago that stayed unresolved. So, yes, if I know a work-around for an issue, of course I will use it instead of relying on SS to fix it.

I deleted an image and re-uploaded about an hour later. They rejected it as Approved on Site: This image has already been accepted into our collection.

Shutterstock's forum has this today from Aaron of L.A. Photography:-

"This is for the admins and Mods. It has been over a week and every time my photos or videos accepted some are not appearing in my port. You guys take more of us but can't fix this problem. When will this be CORRECTED!!!??? I get 3/4 of my photos accepted from the 100 I send in to be reviewed but I only get 1/4 of them appear in my port. FIX THIS * ISSUE!"