Last night a user mailed me, asking for help regarding aol mail. Whenever someone was sending him an email in which images or other types of files were attached, the aol account was not showing those images. Along with this, he is sending all such emails in spam mail.
That’s why I wrote this article to fix his problem, so that along with him, if any other AOL user is also facing the same problem, then they can also get rid of this problem.
Why are images not showing in my AOL emails?
Often images don’t appear in the AOL mail account, when you have disabled the show images option from settings. But even if this option is enabled, still you are unable to see the picture in your all mail account. So this issue may be due to mail settings or browser. which can be easily fixed within 5 minutes.
How do I Fix AOL mail not showing images problem?
Turn off the hide image option-
If images don’t appear on the aol mail, you should go to the AOL mail settings and turn off the hide image option.
- Let’s open the aol mail account on the browser. (if you can’t log into aol email, please check the login details).
- Click on the options available below the username.
- Click on the mail settings option.
- Here, you need to click on the general tab.
- Now uncheck the hide images in mail from unknown senders option.
- Scroll down and press the save settings option.
Check the image extension-
When images are not showing in all mail, it means then you should check the extension of the attached image in it. If the type of image in your phone is something other than png, jpg, jpeg. So all mail will not support it. In such a situation, you will have to request the sender to convert the same image to jpeg or png extension and send it again.
Why did my aol email disappear?
Download the image & view again-
If a sender has attached the image rather than embedding it. You won’t be able to see it directly in the mailbox. In that case, you have to download the image and then open it.
Clear the cookies –
Sometimes, images don’t appear in the mailbox because of the invalid browser cookies. So you need to reset the browser cookies and then re login the account. Your mail account will start working fine for you then. For example, here I am showing the instructions to reset the cookies on the browser.
- Open Google chrome.
- Click on the menu and go to the settings.
- Select the privacy and security option.
- Now click on the clear browsing data.
- Select the options and then click on the clear data.
Clear the Mozilla Firefox-
- Open the Firefox.
- Click on the settings.
- Now press the privacy and security option.
- Press the clear data option.
Clear the cookies & cache on Microsoft edge browser-
- Open the edge browser.
- Click on the settings.
- Press the privacy and security option.
- Press the clear cookies button.
Right after clearing the browsing data, you can go back to the aol mail website and log into the account again. Now click on the image, let’s see if aol mail is showing images now or not?
Reset the browser settings –
If you have already made these changes but aol mail is not showing images in the inbox. You should factory reset the browser. For which, you need to follow the steps given below.
How To Reset google chrome-
- Open Google chrome.
- Go to settings.
- Click on the advanced settings.
- Press reset settings to their original defaults.
How To Factory reset the firefox browser-
- Open the firefox browser.
- Click on the about section.
- Now go to the support option.
- Press the refresh firefox option.
How do I factory reset the microsoft edge browser-
- Open the edge browser.
- Click on the advanced options.
- Now press the reset browser option.
Faq’s related to the AOL Mail attachment –
Why am I receiving the attached emails into the spam folder?
Generally, that happens when you have marked the attachment emails as spam. So you need to open such types of email, and click on the not as spam option.
Why is my aol mail not showing images from a specific contact?
- Open the aol mail account.
- Click on the mail settings.
- Go to the contact form.
- Press the don’t block images button.
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