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• By default pictures in email messages won’t be downloaded automatically in Microsoft Outlook. Most of time you can view the frame of pictures in the email messages, but pictures don’t display. Here we provide you with the methods to download pictures manually in one email message, and download pictures automatically for all received email.
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How to Download Embedded Images as Attachments in Microsoft Outlook. Author: Chris Lee, Senior Director, Information Technology With the rise of smartphone email clients such as Apple Mail and similar, many email messages that you receive in Outlook will.

It is very important that you understand how online hackers can embed malicious code to run in image backgrounds. When images are automatically downloaded in email messages, this gives hackers an opportunity to automatically run malicious code in the background. It is highly recommended that you do not load images automatically for emails you receive and only load images from senders you recognize/trust.

The advantages of blocking automatic picture downloads include the following

• Helps you avoid viewing potentially offensive material (when external content is linked to the message).
• Helps to keep malicious code from damaging the data on your computer.
• If you are on a low-bandwidth connection, blocking allows you to decide whether a particular image warrants the time and bandwidth that are required for downloading it.

Pictures in email messages that are actually linked and downloaded from the Internet can also be used as a way to confirm that you opened the message. This is known as a web beacon. For example, a junk email sender can confirm that they have reached an active email address when the picture/image in the message is downloaded.

Configure Outlook/Outlook on the web

• Outlook on the web

  • In Outlook on the web, there is not a global setting to always download images/pictures for every message. You will need to manage this at the message level or add the message sender to your safe sender's list.

    When viewing a message that contains images either within your preview window or its own window, you will have the option to either load the message content or add the sender to your safe sender's 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. Learn more.

• Outlook for Windows

  • In Outlook for Windows, you can set it to always download images/pictures in all messages you receive. As stated above, this is not recommended. Instead, we recommend you manage this at the message or sender level.

    When viewing a message that contains images/pictures either within your preview window or its own window, you will have the option to either load the message content or add the sender to your safe sender's list. By clicking on the information banner underneath the 'To' field, the following options will be displayed.

    Download Pictures.

    If you activate this setting, the image content will be downloaded and all the content will be visible for this message always.

    Add Sender to Safe Senders List.

    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. Learn more.

• Outlook for Mac

  • In Outlook for Mac, you can set up to always download images/pictures in all messages you receive. As stated above, this is not recommended. Instead, we recommend you manage this at the message or sender level.

    When viewing a message that contains images/pictures either within your preview window or its own window, you will have the option to load the message content.

    Download Pictures.

    If you activate this setting, the image content will be downloaded and all the content will be visible for this message always.

    Important: If you want always load images/pictures from a particular safe sender, you can add them to your safe sender's list by following these instructions.

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The problem of images not showing in email programs like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Outlook Mail, Apple Mail and others is basically related to a security setting which can be easily fixed.

Images Not Showing in Email Messages

Since it is possible to include images fetched from remote servers in email messages, spammers make use of this feature to get a feedback on whether or not someone has opened the email.

This feedback helps spammers to identify which email addresses are real and which ones are not, allowing them to target real email addresses with spam messages.

Hence, most email programs try to counter this problem by preventing images from automatically being downloaded in email messages, especially if the images are being fetched from remote servers.

Now that you understand the reason for Images not showing in email messages, let us take a look at how to make your email client show images in Email messages.

Images Not Showing in Gmail

If images are not showing in Gmail, make sure that “Always display external images” option is checked in General Settings of Gmail.

Login to your Gmail Account, click on the Gear icon located at the top right corner of your screen and then click on Settings in the drop-down menu.

On the Settings screen, click on the General tab and select Always display external images option.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Save button to save this setting.

Note: Even if you choose “Always display external images” option, Gmail will still scan your emails and may choose not to automatically download images, if it suspects that they are coming from untrusted or suspicious sources.

Images Not Showing in Outlook Mail

To make Outlook Mail show images in email, click on the Gear Icon and click on Options in the drop-down menu.

On the Options screen, click on Filters and reporting option located under “Junk Mail” section and select the option to “Show Attachments, Pictures and Links from Senders with good reputations”.

Click on Save to preserve this setting in your Email Account.

Images Not Showing in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Follow the steps below to fix the problem of Images not showing in Microsoft Outlook 2007.

Open Microsoft Outlook and click on Tools tab in the top menu bar and click on Trust Center in the drop-down menu.

On the Trust Center screen, click on Automatic Downloads in the side-menu and uncheck the little box next to “Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages”

A better way is to add senders to the Safe List.

On the Safety Options screen, click on the Security tab and check the little box next to “Show images and external content sent from email addresses in my safe senders list” and click on OK.

Images Not Showing in Apple Mail

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Apple Mail supports all popular email clients like Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and others. Irrespective of the Email client, Apple Mail can be set to automatically download and display images.

Open Apple Mail, click on the Mail option in the top menu bar of your Mac and click on Preferences in the drop-down menu.

On the Preferences screen, click on the Viewing tab and make sure that Load remote content in messages option is checked.

Images Not Showing in Messages on iPhone and iPad

The Mail Settings on your iPhone or iPad can influence whether or not images are displayed in messages.

If images are not showing in Messages on your iPhone, make sure that “Load Remote Images” option is enabled in Mail section of iPhone Settings.

Open Settings on your iPhone, scroll down and tap on Mail.

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On the next screen, scroll down to “Messages” section and toggle ON Load Remote Images option.

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Sometimes, your iPhone may not automatically download images in large messages due to restrictions on the size of downloaded content.

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In such cases, you can display images by scrolling down to the bottom of the message and tapping on Download Full Message button.