Every email: "Your network preferences prevent content from loading privately". Why?

If for any reason Apple cannot contact its proxy servers via your network this will occur; this will happen with many corporate networks.

A VPN is often a cause but is not the only one; any configuration that prevents Mail from loading content via Apple's proxy network will cause this issue if you have Mail Privacy Protection enabled.

Aw, dang. Wonder why it worked for me. There must be another setting as well. Perhaps the DNS servers you're using? Apple released a new OS version today for all devices - desktop & iOS. Are you up to date?

You can change the Mail preference setting for Privacy to remove the annoying message.

Yes. I opened mail and I can't see any part of any messages except from and to and subject line. I unticked everything except Hide ip. Nothing loads in my mail message, which defeats its purpose. I'm using a 2019 Mac Air, if that makes any difference. Any ideas?

I would really like to be able to read my emails. Perhaps I have misunderstood how to tweak the settings. Mail, is useless at this point.

Protect Mail Activity now functions as expected

Update: the clean install enabled this to work for 2 days but has now reverted to always showing "Your network preferences prevent content from loading privately". Nothing in my setup has changed.

I first noticed this on my M1 MacBook Pro (Monterey) in the afternoon. Shortly thereafter The same problem occurred on my iPad Pro and then my iPhone 13 Pro. Oddly, my Apple Watch loads the content.

In the morning all was well in the world then but when I got home from getting my Moderna booster shot this problem began. Shall we start a conspiracy theory that anti-vaxxers are causing this? Just kidding, of course.

What is going on, people?

My wife's iPad Pro and iPhone 13 just started having this problem several hours after my problem started.

We don't use a VPN.

I reinstalled Monterey on my MacBook Pro - no change.

I guess we wait until Apple realizes they have a problem and then fixes it.

Clearly, you understand very much more about computing and networks than do I. However, one of the reasons I first became an Apple appreciator back in the days of the II+ and have continued to be so to the present day, is that Apple has continually provided not only high quality and aesthetically pleasing products but, more importantly for me, also made interfaces that work for - those who don't know ... - (Hypercard - the programming language for the rest of us) taught me much that helped me master relational databases some time later.)

So, for me, although your explanation makes perfect technical sense, it does not explain the lack of consideration for the user, particularly those who are not technically proficient. For instance:

The message doesn't indicate which 'network preference(s) is set inappropriately, let alone how to find and fix it.

The Apple Support explanation seems to indicate that it is purely a VPN issue when clearly it is not.

The inclusion of settings for protection "encourages" a user to take advantage of that protection yet Apple clearly know that in many cases this will cause the problem with content loading that it has ...

If, as you say, turning off all protection options will leave us no worse off than with the previous OS then what benefit does the change provide? - Why upgrade if one has to settle for how things were previously?

I sincerely hope that this does not come across as rude or abrasive. I don't mean it that way. I just feel a little disappointed that a company I have supported and held in high esteem for around 50 years, that began with a high priority on 'Human interface guidelines', seems to be less concerned with those in recent times.

However, I accept that despite my 50 years use of Apple computers, I know very little, so perhaps I am being unfair. I mean no offence.

I have to congratulate you on being the perfect apologist for Apple.

However, as I said: "So, for me, although your explanation makes perfect technical sense, it does not explain the lack of consideration for the user, particularly those who are not technically proficient. "

and as I also said:

I sincerely hope that this does not come across as rude or abrasive. I don't mean it that way. I just feel a little disappointed that a company I have supported and held in high esteem for around 50 years, that began with a high priority on 'Human interface guidelines', seems to be less concerned with those in recent times.

However, I accept that despite my 50 years use of Apple computers, I know very little, so perhaps I am being unfair. I mean no offence.

I guess then that I *am* being unfair in your estimation.

So be it. I stand suitably chastened.

I object to your classification of me as an Apple "apologist"; I gave a technical explanation of what goes on with network address obfuscation that has nothing to do with Apple and would have given the same explanation of the process were it Windows or UNIX/Linux.

Regardless, I do not feel you are being at all abrasive, I just wanted to give you a basic grounding in the factors involved.

Then I apologise for that, too. I'm sorry that I caused you offense.

I am an ignorant buffoon. I seem to manage to do this no matter how hard I try not to do it.

I stand even more suitably chastened.

Just adding a "Me too", with no VPN and not network proxies.

And a nod to mikisdad, nice to see someone on here that's been here longer than me. II+! That beats my Macintosh Performa start by a few years. And I think I agree with all you are saying. :)