diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload-manager.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload-manager.ts
index 5f48dd0ada..c88c40bf1d 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload-manager.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload-manager.ts
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ class UploadManager {
      */
     public failedItemState() {
         return {
-            items: this.failedItems,
+            items: [...this.failedItems],
             collections: [...this.collections.values()],
             parsedMetadataJSONMap: this.parsedMetadataJSONMap,
         };
@@ -813,12 +813,15 @@ const clusterLivePhotos = async (
             });
             index += 2;
         } else {
-            result.push({ ...f, isLivePhoto: false });
+            // They may already be a live photo (we might be retrying a
+            // previously failed upload).
+            result.push({ ...f, isLivePhoto: f.isLivePhoto ?? false });
             index += 1;
         }
     }
-    if (index === items.length - 1) {
-        result.push({ ...items[index], isLivePhoto: false });
+    if (index == items.length - 1) {
+        const f = items[index]!;
+        result.push({ ...f, isLivePhoto: f.isLivePhoto ?? false });
     }
     return result;
 };
diff --git a/web/packages/gallery/services/upload/upload-service.ts b/web/packages/gallery/services/upload/upload-service.ts
index ca1c59cc04..b5df37c325 100644
--- a/web/packages/gallery/services/upload/upload-service.ts
+++ b/web/packages/gallery/services/upload/upload-service.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import { ensureInteger, ensureNumber } from "ente-utils/ensure";
 import type { UploadableUploadItem, UploadItem, UploadPathPrefix } from ".";
 import { type LivePhotoAssets, type UploadResult } from ".";
 import { tryParseEpochMicrosecondsFromFileName } from "./date";
+import { matchJSONMetadata, type ParsedMetadataJSON } from "./metadata-json";
 import {
     completeMultipartUpload,
     completeMultipartUploadViaWorker,
@@ -72,7 +73,6 @@ import {
     type MultipartCompletedPart,
     type ObjectUploadURL,
 } from "./remote";
-import { type ParsedMetadataJSON, matchJSONMetadata } from "./metadata-json";
 import {
     fallbackThumbnail,
     generateThumbnailNative,