4 Ways to Fix Images Not Loading in Microsoft Edge

Fix 1: Check Site Permissions

The first thing you should do is review site permissions in Microsoft Edge to ensure websites are allowed to load images. Here’s how to check.

Step 1: Open Microsoft Edge, click the three-dot menu icon at the top right corner, and select Settings.

Step 2: Switch to the Cookies and site permissions tab. In the right pane, scroll down and click on Images.

Step 3: Enable the toggle for Show all (recommended). Also, ensure that none of the websites are blocked.

Fix 2: Disable Adblock and Other Extensions

If you use any ad blockers on Edge to block ads, it may be mistakenly blocking some or all the images. To verify this, pause or disable the ad blocker extension temporarily and refresh the web page.

Similarly, third-party extensions in Microsoft Edge can sometimes interfere with the browser’s functionality and prevent it from loading web pages correctly. To fix this, disable all the extensions.

For that, type edge://extensions/ in the address bar at the top and press Enter. Then, disable the toggles next to the extensions.

If this solves your problem, enable one extension at a time to determine which one is causing the trouble.

Fix 3: Set Tracking Prevention to Balanced

Tracking Prevention is a useful feature in Microsoft Edge to block tracking scripts and malicious codes in the browser. However, if you’ve enabled Strict Tracking Prevention in Microsoft Edge, some websites may fail to load images or videos.

You can fix this by setting the Tracking Prevention to Balanced mode. Here’s how.

Step 1: Open the settings menu in Microsoft Edge.

Step 2: In the Privacy, search, and services tab, select Balanced mode. Ensure the toggle for Always use “Strict” tracking prevention when browsing InPrivate is also turned off.

Fix 4: Clear Browser Cache

It’s possible that the existing cache data stored by Microsoft Edge has become inaccessible or corrupted and has started interfering with the browser’s performance. To fix that, try clearing Microsoft Edge’s cache data.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Delete to access the Clear browsing data panel. Use the drop-down menu under Time range to select All time. Then, check the box for Cached images and files and hit Clear now.