View and browse images

When someone pastes or attaches an image to a message, Zulip shows a small preview. Click on the image preview to open the image viewer.

In the image viewer, you can:

Zoom in and out of the image
Click and drag the image
Reset zoom so that the image is recentered and its original size
Open the image in a new browser tab
Download the image
Browse other images in the current view. For example, if you're in a stream view, the image browser will show all the images from that stream. If you do a search, the image browser will show all images in messages that matched that search.

Exit the image viewer by clicking anywhere outside the image.

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Use `v` to **open** the image viewer. Use `Z` and `z` to
zoom in and out of the image. Use `v` or `Esc` to **close**
the image viewer.

Troubleshooting

To open the image viewer, you must click on the image preview, not the file name.