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object-fit in Apple Mail

Works object-fit works in Apple Mail.

Works in 14 of 21 · partial in 2 · not supported in 5

Which clients
Works
Gmail, Outlook 365, Outlook (New), Outlook iOS, Outlook Android, Outlook for Mac, Apple Mail, Apple Mail iOS, Samsung Mail, Thunderbird, HEY Mail, Proton Mail, Fastmail, Superhuman
Partial
Gmail Android, Gmail iOS
Not supported
Outlook Classic, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android, Yahoo Mail iOS, AOL Mail

The fix for the clients that need it

Needed in 7 of 21: Outlook Classic, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android and 4 more.

Use width/height attributes instead of object-fit

instead
<!-- Crop/resize image server-side to exact dimensions -->
<img src="photo-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200"
  alt="Photo" style="display: block; border: 0;" />
Show the original
before
<img src="photo.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 200px;
            object-fit: cover;" />

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What Apple Mail does with object-fit

The Emailens probe for object-fit on a real install counted as Apple Mail, captured 14 Oct 2026. It shows the probe, not the fix. Where object-fit is supported it shows: image cropped, not squashed.

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Questions

How many email clients support object-fit?
It works in 14 of 21, partial in 2, not supported in 5.
Does object-fit work in Apple Mail iOS?
object-fit works in Apple Mail iOS. Closest to Apple Mail: Apple Mail iOS, which agrees on 284 of the 298 features both are tested on.

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Real captures 14 Oct 2026 on 10 installs · caniemail (MIT) via @emailens/engine 0.18.22 · tested upstream 15 Jul 2021 · data last changed 10 Nov 2026 · Outlook (New) cells are the engine's mapping