How to allow images in your email client

Sometimes when you receive an email you may find that the images either don't display or display as image placeholders instead. By default, most e-mail clients block remote images in email messages to help protect your privacy. When you receive a message with remote images, the mail client will display an alert stating that remote images have been blocked.

Below you'll find instructions on how to enable your mail client to allow images for all emails, stopping these messages from popping up and displaying images for you automatically.

Select your mail client from the list below for instructions:

• Airmail
• AOL Mail
• Apple Mail
• Canary Mail
• Gmail
• iPhone/iPad
• Mailbird
• Office 365 & Outlook.com
• Outlook 2003
• Outlook 2007
• Outlook 2010, 2013 & 2016
• Outlook for Mac 2011
• Outlook for Mac 2016
• Postbox
• Postbox for Mac
• Sparrow
• Thunderbird
• Thunderbird for Mac
• Yahoo! Mail

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Airmail

1. Go to Airmail > Preferences on your top menu.
2. Select the Appearance tab at the top.
3. Tick Autoload remote images at the bottom of your preferences.

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AOL Mail

From individual users

1. Open an email from the user.
2. Click For this sender at the top of the email.
3. A note will appear at the top of the email. Select either to show images:
4. For this message
5. Always for the sender

From everyone

1. Click Options from the top right of your page.
2. Select Mail Settings.
3. From your General tab under Reading, untick "Hide images in mail from unknown senders".

For further assistance with AOL Mail, please reach out to AOL Support.

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Apple Mail

1. Click Mail > Preferences.
2. Select the Viewing button.
3. Check the "Load remote content in messages" box.
4. Close the window.

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Canary Mail

1. From your toolbar, select Canary then select Preferences.
2. Select the Behaviors tab.
3. Scroll down to Reading and check the Load Remote Images check box.
4. Close the window.

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Gmail

Gmail automatically displays images as they process them through their own secure proxy servers. If images are not displaying automatically, you can manually adjust your settings instead with the following steps:

1. Click the cog icon at the top right of your page.
2. Select Settings.
3. On the General tab, check the "Always display external images" button.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save Changes.

For further assistance with Gmail, please reach out to Gmail Support.

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iPhone/iPad

1. Open your Settings app.
2. Tap on Mail.
3. Enable "Load Remote Images".

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Mailbird

1. Click the Menu icon at the top left of your Mailbird client and select Settings.
2. Select the Appearance tab.
3. Scroll down to Messages and tick "Always show remote images".

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Office 365 & Outlook.com

There is no global setting to allow images to display automatically. Instead, this setting needs to be changed from the email itself, or add specific users to your safe senders list.

To help protect your privacy, some content in this message has been blocked. To re-enable the blocked features, click here.
If you activate this setting, the image content will be downloaded and all the content will be visible for this message always.

To always show content from this sender, click here.
If you activate this setting, the image content will be downloaded and all the content will be visible for this message always. In addition, for any messages you receive from this sender in the future, all images/pictures will be downloaded.

For further assistance with Office 365 or Outlook.com, please reach out to Microsoft Support.

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Outlook 2003

1. Go to Tools and select Options.
2. Select Security.
3. Under Download Pictures, click Change Automatic Download Settings.
4. Uncheck "Don't download pictures or other content automatically in HTML email".

For further assistance with Outlook 2003, please reach out to Microsoft Support.

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Outlook 2007

1. Go to Tools and select Trust Center.
2. Select Automatic Download.
3. Uncheck the "Don't download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items" check box.
4. Click OK.

For further assistance with Outlook 2007, please reach out to Microsoft Support.

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Outlook 2010, 2013 & 2016

1. On the File tab, choose Options > Trust Center.
2. Under Microsoft Outlook Trust Center, click Trust Center Settings.
3. Uncheck the "Don't download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items check box.

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Outlook for Mac 2011

1. Go to the menu at the top of your screen and click on Outlook, then select Preferences.
2. Under the E-mail section, select Reading.
3. Under the Security section where it says Automatically download pictures from the Internet:, select the In all messages radio button.
4. Close the window.

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Outlook for Mac 2016

1. Go to the menu at the top of your screen and click on Outlook, then select Preferences.
2. Under the E-mail section, select Reading.
3. Under the Security section where it says Automatically download pictures from the Internet:, select the In all messages radio button.
4. Close the window.

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Postbox

1. Go to Tools.
2. Select Options.
3. Select the Privacy tab.
4. Untick the "Block loading of remote images in mail messages" check box.

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Postbox for Mac

1. Go to the menu at the top of your screen and click on Postbox, then select Preferences.
2. Select the Privacy tab.
3. Untick the "Block loading of remote images in mail messages" check box.

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Sparrow

1. Go to the menu at the top of your screen and click on Sparrow, then select Preferences.
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Check the Show remote images check box.

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Thunderbird

1. Go to Tools.
2. Select Options.
3. Select the Privacy tab.
4. Tick the "Allow remote content in messages" check box.

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Thunderbird for Mac

1. Go to the menu at the top of your screen and click on Thunderbird, then select Preferences.
2. Select the Privacy tab.
3. Check the "Allow remote content in messages" check box.

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Yahoo! Mail

1. Click on the gear icon at the top right of your page.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Security on the left side.
4. Click the drop down box for Show images in emails and change it to "Always, except in Spam folder".

For further assistance with Yahoo! Mail, please select the Help link in your Yahoo! Mail account.