Problem with pictures in Safari 16.4

Disable "lazy loading" in the Develop | Experimental menu.

For detailed steps, including how to enable the Develop menu, see this post:

Images on my website not showing in safar… - Apple Community

Same here and mostly on the Post. WSJ also at times.

Cleared cache, cookies, history, and deleted extensions. No change.

Cleared NVRAM and that helped for a short period of time, but problem returns in a short time.

Problem does not happen with Chrome.

Same problem, adding data to help us all troubleshoot:

• Late 2015 iMac 5K
• Safari issue only
• Happens across a variety of websites randomly

Fix aside, has anyone at least been able to verify that this is not a malware issue? With the latest Safari security releases (16.5 and 16.5.1), I'm concerned there's a deeper issue despite being extremely cautious (no extensions or anything like that).

I had just recently noticed this problem also on Lowes, Home Depot, and Etsy websites and posted about it in the Monterey discussions: In Safari, images failing to load completely on some websites , but received no response.

I posted in the Monterey forum because I noticed it right after the latest Monterey 12.6.7 update, and thought it was related to that.

I read the replies and decided to try the unticking of Lazy Image Loading in the Developer menu.

Today incidentally there was a Safari update 16.5.2 and so I updated.

Not sure yet if any of that will help....going to browse a bit and will find out...

I'm getting scrambled images all over the place in Safari 16.4.1 on my M1 MacBook Pro 16 with Monterey 12.6.5, seems to vary without any notable cause or action. I've attached a few images showing the issue.

Even on IKEA's website! It's all over the place. I've tried most of the proposed solutions. Nothing works. I can't believe that Apple isn't jumping on this. It's a flagship app but we can't use it anymore. Don't tell us again that it's the programmers fault. We, the users, didn't do anything. Safari needs to stop being so tech-picky. We're still stuck with the 2X bold fonts after months (don't send tips, tried them all...), then videos wouldn't play anymore, then hypersecurity makes browsing a hurdles relay, and now this annoying scrambled pics, like the 90s are back. I've always used Chrome as well as second base for specific things. Now, it's the only browser on my Mac that doesn't give me a headache! Makes me so sad but I'm about to jump ship and let Safari collect dust... unfortunately. Please please please Apple at least fix this one, it's completely insane.

But Washington Post isn't working now, either. The top right is split, with the bottom half the photo for an article about a Puerto Rican trying to rent a car in Louisiana and Hertz wouldn't rent to him without a passport (Puerto Ricans are US citizens). Bottom right illustration is for a review of Josh Hawley's book on masculinity, not US default and Medicare. The bottom part of the Hawley illustration is what's at the top of the other one ...

Disabeling "GPU Process: Canvas rendering" and "GPU Process: DOM rendering" didn't help for me. DOM-Rendering was disabled by default, and after disabeling Canvas Rendering, clearing cache, cookies, quitting Safari and restarting I still get Pictures show like this:

( https://www.focus.de/regional/hamburg/extreme-stroemung-unterschaetzt-schwimmer-39-tot-aus-elbe-gezogen_id_196104847.html )

But not always.

Often the picture is shown correctly at the beginning, and sometimes at first attempt to scroll it often changes into the graphics garbage like in the linked picture. Or with wild colourful lines as in other pictures seen in this thread. And stays like that.

The exact same thing happens to me, only on a particular Washington, DC paper's website. But not when I use Firefox. I haven't noticed it anywhere else. It is a quite recent development, and I'm using Safari 16.4.1.

I've tried clearing cache, cookies, logging out and back in, and nothing changes.

Has there been any attempt to address this issue on Apple's part yet? Rather disappointing to have a push update impair software performance and not receive any support for the problem from Apple. It doesn't seem to be resolved with any of the listed fixes, so it would seem that a patch should be issued, doesn't it?

This seems to have something to do with the experimental feature"Lazy image loading". Disabling it in "Develop->Experimental Features->Lazy image loading" made the issue disappear.

Edit: Since the link to a related thread was removed, you can enable the Develop menu in the Advanced tab of the Safari preferences.

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I can confirm that this does not work on WP, but it does work on other sites where this issue was present. AFAICT WP does not have loading="lazy" on the img tag, whereas the others I tried do, so there are clearly multiple paths to the same (or at least a similar) issue.

Experiencing the same with the latest Safari upgrade. Reinstalled Mac OS Monterey. Still having the same issue. Tried opening webpages with distorted images on Firefox and Chrome and they are loading properly.

Same problem here.

MacBook Pro 15" mid 2015

Monterey 12.6.6 (Latest MacOS that works officially on that machine)

.... still problems in Safari 16.5 (17615.2.9.11.6, 17615)

Switching from integrated graphics to AMD graphics does not help.

Very annoying! Especially that problem is consistent despite of two or three Safari updates since.

Sometimes the pages load with correct graphics, few times there is just graphics garbage. Problem exists on many different webpages.

I'd appreciate a solution for that problem.