How to Hide Contact Photos in the Outlook Client

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Purpose:

The purpose of this knowledge base article is to provide the steps on how to hide contact photos from email headers in the Outlook client.

How to:
  1. Launch Outlook.
  1. Select File.

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  1. Select Options.

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  1. Under Outlook Options, select People.

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  1. Under Online status and photographs uncheck the option for Show user photographs when available (requires restarting Outlook).

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  1. Select Ok.

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  1. Select File.

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  1. Select Exit.

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  1. Relaunch Outlook for change to process.
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Article ID: 1871
Created
Wed 12/11/24 11:48 AM
Modified
Thu 5/7/26 3:10 PM