I was trying to create something quite simple.  How to get image file uri from media entity id or rendered entity.  Or other variations you might have searched: How to load existing media programmatically How to get image file uri from media entity id Call to a member function getFileUri()  drupal File::load getFileUri  drupal getFileUri   The steps to achieve this should be something like: // get the file id ​​​​​​​$fid = $entity->field_icon->target_id; //...