Advertisers and spammers enjoy sending emails with images on them. In doing so, they can detect when the email is opened and potentially collect other information. To protect your devices from snoopers, you can disable image loading in your favorite mail app on both your computer and mobile device.
How to disable image loading in Gmail
Mail.app used to have the ability to hide the unread count badge, as shown on this 37signals blog post: It seems that Apple has removed this in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is there any way to restore. Jan 17, 2020 Badge count Outlook app on MAC Hello everyone. To disable it, go to Outlook Preferences Personal Settings General unckeck the option 'Show all mail account folders'. So I think this is more likely an issue of the Outlook client on your Mac, also, I don't see the unread number from the Outlook icon as the picture you shared.
In Gmail, you have the choice of always having email images load or having the system ask you before doing so.
To always show images:
To get asked before showing attached images in Gmail:
When Ask before displaying external images is selected, Gmail disables dynamic email. When activated, at least through the web, you can complete specific tasks without leaving a message, such as filling out surveys or responding to comments.
To see images on these emails:
What about in the Gmail iOS app?
According to a Google support document, 'Images will always appear in the Gmail app on your iPhone or iPad.'
How to disable image loading in Apple Mail on Mac
Regardless of your email provider, you can disable image loading in the Mail app on your Mac:
You can check the box to enable image loading once again.
On an email-to-email basis, you can still load remote content in the Mail app on Mac:
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You can now see the remote content on the email.
How to disable image loading in Mail on iOS
To disable image loading on iOS, follow these steps:
To see images on these emails:
How to disable image loading in Outlook
Much like you can do on the native Apple Mail app on Mac, you can also disable image loading on the official Outlook app.
By default, images aren't loaded on emails in Outlook. To change this:
To see images on these emails:
How To Add Unread Folder OutlookWhat about in the Outlook iOS app?
To view images on the official Outlook iOS app:
How to disable image loading in other email programs
If you're using another email system on Mac or through the web, you can disable image loading by looking into the settings for that service. Most likely, this is listed as Settings or Preferences. For a more straightforward approach, use the Apple Mail app for Mac for all of your email accounts.
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