How to avoid loading images in Gmail for iPhone

Finally, iPhone users will be able to block external images attached to an email in Gmail. The latest update of the Gmail application in the Apple App Store confirms this. If the user wishes, this will prevent the images included in a received email from being automatically loaded on the mobile, thus preventing their personal emails from being tracked by Google itself and minimizing the impact on the device's internal storage.

Prevent images from downloading by themselves in Gmail

To activate the new function and thus prevent the images from being downloaded automatically, the user must act as follows: enter the settings of your iPhone, select your personal email account and ' Images' select 'Ask before showing external images'. As is to be expected, Android users, owned by Google like Gmail, have had this option for quite some time. Now, finally, if you have an iPhone you can get it too.

Benefits of blocking Gmail images on your mobile

By blocking images attached to a Gmail email you will be benefiting, mainly, in two very obvious ways:

• First of all, Google will not be able to 'see' images attached to your emails. Thanks to these images, Google collects information to offer you notices, reminders (such as, for example, the reservation of a hotel or flight) and personalized. Preventing images from downloading automatically is an easy way to prevent tracking.
• Secondly, you prevent your phone's internal storage from shrinking: automatically downloading images will increase space.
• By canceling automatic downloading you can save battery.
• If you receive an email while connected to data, if images are downloaded the cost will be higher.

Six years ago Google automatically activated images to download themselves, without the user's permission.To prevent malware in Gmail attachments, Google served the images, directly, from its own servers, as major email providers had begun scaling back their preview. It was from 2013, whether you remember it or not, that Google downloaded the images to your mobile without permission.

How can I block images if I'm on an Android phone?

Okay, we've already seen that you can block the download on an iPhone mobile and we want to do it on our Android mobile, since the benefits have convinced us. What should we do for it? Here's how to do it.

Let's go to the Gmail application on your Android mobile. Next, we slide the screen to the right, from the left side, until a sidebar appears.We can also make it appear by pressing the three lines menu that we see at the top of the screen, next to 'Search mail'.

We scroll all the way down and enter 'Settings'. Later, we enter the section in which our account appears mail.

Now, we scroll again and, in the last section, 'Images', we choose 'Ask before showing external images' .