🚧 Updating for V8 (other versions ✅) [Last edited: 3/20/2026]

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Overview (TL;DR)

There’s no wrong way to prompt in Midjourney. If you love your images, then it doesn’t matter what words you use or what your prompting style is. That said, if your prompts are not creating what you have in mind, you can check your prompt with these troubleshooting steps for each Midjourney version.

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🦉 Prompting in Midjourney v8

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How should I prompt in v8?

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🚧 information for V8 in progress! 🚧

Version 8 is an entirely new model, not an update of previous versions! Based on what we’re seeing right now, we recommend trying more descriptive and specific prompts than you may have used in previous versions. It can handle an amazing quantity of details! As with V6 and V7, you can use natural language with good grammar.

Prompt Ordering / Length

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🦉 Prompting in Midjourney v7

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How should I prompt in v7?

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Our prompting mantra for v7: Want to see it? Say it unambiguously.

With v7.0’s improved prompt adherence, the model is more responsive than ever. If something’s missing, it might just be waiting for you to spell it out. Be very specific. In v7, traditional or standard prompting (as opposed to Conversational Mode prompting) does a great job understanding a wider range of prompting styles than previous models. That means: