Google adds blocking images to Gmail on iPhone

San Francisco: The Internet giant Google has updated its Gmail app for iOS devices with a new image blocking setting to prevent Gmail from automatically loading the attached images.

With the new update, users can choose to ask each time if external images should be displayed in an email. This new setting aims to thwart tracking services that incorporate small, invisible images into emails to let the sender know when an email has been opened, reported Tuesday the 9TO5MAC news portal. .

The update is now available on the Apple App Store. You can now choose to be prompted before the external images are automatically displayed.To enable for new incoming messages, go to Settings and Specific Account and Images and select Prompt Before Displaying external images, "reads the changelog on the Apple App Store.

The image loading setting was previously limited to the web version of Gmail. It could have gone unnoticed by users of mobile emails from the iOS app. Now you can access this setting on iPhones and iPads.

In addition, Google introduced a new feature for G Suite users this month, which notifies your contacts in Gmail and Hangouts chats that you're on vacation.

For the moment only available for G Suite (Google client companies) and not for ordinary users of Gmail, this feature will be fully deployed from 16 September.