Your network preferences prevent content from loading privately (Apple mail app)

beachBOYken · 10 Apr 2025 at 08:41

Hi

This last week Ive noticed all my emails are not loading correctly, in particular all the images in them.

Above the emails I get the following message

"Your network preferences prevent content from loading privately"

I can click a tab next this called load content directly which fixes it, but im wondering why suddenly its like this, did the recent Mac update cause this?

Other users on same Mac don't have the issue and I've not changed any settings, odd.

Broken Hope · 14 Apr 2025 at 13:17

It's usually caused by Private relay which I'm not sure if it's a per user setting, failing this check the privacy tab in settings for mail.

beachBOYken · 14 Apr 2025 at 13:38

Broken Hope said:
It's usually caused by Private relay which I'm not sure if it's a per user setting, failing this check the privacy tab in settings for mail.

Thanks, when I go on next, I will disable private relay see if that’s the cause, although I like to have that enabled, perhaps turning off/on will fix it though.

Kainz · 16 Apr 2025 at 05:41

I get this too and I don't use PR so it could be that protect mail privacy setting in Settings. I actually like it as most graphical heavy emails load way faster.

beachBOYken · 16 Apr 2025 at 08:37

Kainz said:
I get this too and I don't use PR so it could be that protect mail privacy setting in Settings. I actually like it as most graphical heavy emails load way faster.

Yeah tested PR disabled and it made no difference, weird thing is protect mail privacy is enabled on mine, and on a few other email accounts on other users on my MacBook and all the graphicHeavy emails still load for them.
It’s just mine oddly.
But it’s not a big deal, just find it strange it’s suddenly doing this.