4 Ways to Fix Images Not Loading in Microsoft Edge

Quick Tips

• In most cases, either a lack of permissions or an extension prevents Edge from loading a web page correctly.
• If Microsoft Edge is not displaying images on specific sites, ensure that Tracking Prevention is set to Balanced.
• Consider resetting Microsoft Edge settings if nothing else works.

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 in the top right corner, and select the Settings option.

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

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

Fix 2: Disable Adblock and Other Extensions

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

Similarly, third-party extensions in Microsoft Edge can also interfere with the browser’s functionality at times and prevent it from loading web pages correctly. To fix this, you can 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 figure out 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 easily 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 that the toggle next to 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, you can 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, mark the box that reads Cached images and files and hit Clear now.