From 0ee8c799faae26d4a87ce444c543c33edb1b7354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mustaque Ahmed <amustaque97@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:17:35 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: keep check for console users

---
 app/controllers/shared/api.php | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/controllers/shared/api.php b/app/controllers/shared/api.php
index 5b3963a89e..1fee484c4c 100644
--- a/app/controllers/shared/api.php
+++ b/app/controllers/shared/api.php
@@ -557,8 +557,8 @@ App::init()
         if ($useCache) {
             $route = $utopia->match($request);
             $isImageTransformation = $route->getPath() === '/v1/storage/buckets/:bucketId/files/:fileId/preview';
-            // Plan-level disable (legacy) - -1 means disabled
-            $isDisabled = isset($plan['imageTransformations']) && $plan['imageTransformations'] === -1;
+            $isDisabled = isset($plan['imageTransformations']) && $plan['imageTransformations'] === -1 && !Auth::isPrivilegedUser(Authorization::getRoles());
+
 
             $key = $request->cacheIdentifier();
             $cacheLog  = Authorization::skip(fn () => $dbForProject->getDocument('cache', $key));