diff --git a/src/HtmlUtils.tsx b/src/HtmlUtils.tsx
index ec8662eaf5..abc7c74c12 100644
--- a/src/HtmlUtils.tsx
+++ b/src/HtmlUtils.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-Copyright 2024 New Vector Ltd.
+Copyright 2024, 2025 New Vector Ltd.
 Copyright 2019 Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
 Copyright 2019 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C.
 Copyright 2017, 2018 New Vector Ltd
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { getEmojiFromUnicode } from "@matrix-org/emojibase-bindings";
 import SettingsStore from "./settings/SettingsStore";
 import { stripHTMLReply, stripPlainReply } from "./utils/Reply";
 import { PERMITTED_URL_SCHEMES } from "./utils/UrlUtils";
-import { filterImg, sanitizeHtmlParams, transformTags } from "./Linkify";
+import { sanitizeHtmlParams, transformTags } from "./Linkify";
 import { graphemeSegmenter } from "./utils/strings";
 
 export { Linkify, linkifyAndSanitizeHtml } from "./Linkify";
@@ -302,8 +302,15 @@ function analyseEvent(content: IContent, highlights: Optional<string[]>, opts: E
     if (opts.forComposerQuote) {
         sanitizeParams = composerSanitizeHtmlParams;
     }
-    if (!opts.mediaIsVisible) {
-        sanitizeParams.exclusiveFilter = filterImg;
+
+    if (opts.mediaIsVisible === false && sanitizeParams.transformTags?.["img"]) {
+        // Prevent mutating the source of sanitizeParams.
+        sanitizeParams.transformTags = {
+            ...sanitizeParams.transformTags,
+            img: (tagName) => {
+                return { tagName, attribs: {} };
+            },
+        };
     }
 
     try {
diff --git a/src/Linkify.tsx b/src/Linkify.tsx
index b67d0294fe..ae5447502a 100644
--- a/src/Linkify.tsx
+++ b/src/Linkify.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Please see LICENSE files in the repository root for full details.
 */
 
 import React, { type ReactElement } from "react";
-import sanitizeHtml, { IFrame, type IOptions } from "sanitize-html";
+import sanitizeHtml, { type IOptions } from "sanitize-html";
 import { merge } from "lodash";
 import _Linkify from "linkify-react";
 
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ export const transformTags: NonNullable<IOptions["transformTags"]> = {
         // Strip out imgs that aren't `mxc` here instead of using allowedSchemesByTag
         // because transformTags is used _before_ we filter by allowedSchemesByTag and
         // we don't want to allow images with `https?` `src`s.
-        // Filtering out images now happens as a exlusive filter so we can conditionally apply this
-        // based on settings.
         if (!src) {
             return { tagName, attribs: {} };
         }
@@ -76,7 +74,6 @@ export const transformTags: NonNullable<IOptions["transformTags"]> = {
         if (requestedHeight) {
             attribs.style += "height: 100%;";
         }
-
         attribs.src = mediaFromMxc(src).getThumbnailOfSourceHttp(width, height)!;
         return { tagName, attribs };
     },
@@ -196,7 +193,6 @@ export const sanitizeHtmlParams: IOptions = {
     nestingLimit: 50,
 };
 
-
 /* Wrapper around linkify-react merging in our default linkify options */
 export function Linkify({ as, options, children }: React.ComponentProps<typeof _Linkify>): ReactElement {
     return (
@@ -227,7 +223,3 @@ export function linkifyString(str: string, options = linkifyMatrixOptions): stri
 export function linkifyAndSanitizeHtml(dirtyHtml: string, options = linkifyMatrixOptions): string {
     return sanitizeHtml(linkifyString(dirtyHtml, options), sanitizeHtmlParams);
 }
-
-export function filterImg(frame: IFrame): boolean {
-    return frame.tag === "img";
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/unit-tests/HtmlUtils-test.tsx b/test/unit-tests/HtmlUtils-test.tsx
index 0650db1890..6a28fbad6b 100644
--- a/test/unit-tests/HtmlUtils-test.tsx
+++ b/test/unit-tests/HtmlUtils-test.tsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import parse from "html-react-parser";
 
 import { bodyToHtml, bodyToNode, formatEmojis, topicToHtml } from "../../src/HtmlUtils";
 import SettingsStore from "../../src/settings/SettingsStore";
+import { getMockClientWithEventEmitter } from "../test-utils";
 
 jest.mock("../../src/settings/SettingsStore");
 
@@ -228,4 +229,39 @@ describe("bodyToNode", () => {
 
         expect(asFragment()).toMatchSnapshot();
     });
+
+    it.each([[true], [false]])("should handle inline media when mediaIsVisible is %s", (mediaIsVisible) => {
+        const cli = getMockClientWithEventEmitter({
+            mxcUrlToHttp: jest.fn().mockReturnValue("https://example.org/img"),
+        });
+        const { className, formattedBody } = bodyToNode(
+            {
+                "body": "![foo](mxc://going/knowwhere) Hello there",
+                "format": "org.matrix.custom.html",
+                "formatted_body": `<img src="mxc://going/knowwhere">foo</img> Hello there`,
+                "m.relates_to": {
+                    "m.in_reply_to": {
+                        event_id: "$eventId",
+                    },
+                },
+                "msgtype": "m.text",
+            },
+            [],
+            {
+                mediaIsVisible,
+            },
+        );
+
+        const { asFragment } = render(
+            <span className={className} dir="auto" dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: formattedBody! }} />,
+        );
+        expect(asFragment()).toMatchSnapshot();
+        // We do not want to download untrusted media.
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-properties
+        expect(cli.mxcUrlToHttp).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(mediaIsVisible ? 1 : 0);
+    });
+
+    afterEach(() => {
+        jest.resetAllMocks();
+    });
 });
diff --git a/test/unit-tests/__snapshots__/HtmlUtils-test.tsx.snap b/test/unit-tests/__snapshots__/HtmlUtils-test.tsx.snap
index 09ab44bfcb..018a6721c1 100644
--- a/test/unit-tests/__snapshots__/HtmlUtils-test.tsx.snap
+++ b/test/unit-tests/__snapshots__/HtmlUtils-test.tsx.snap
@@ -64,3 +64,30 @@ exports[`bodyToNode should generate big emoji for an emoji-only reply to a messa
   </span>
 </DocumentFragment>
 `;
+
+exports[`bodyToNode should handle inline media when mediaIsVisible is false 1`] = `
+<DocumentFragment>
+  <span
+    class="mx_EventTile_body markdown-body translate"
+    dir="auto"
+  >
+    <img />
+    foo Hello there
+  </span>
+</DocumentFragment>
+`;
+
+exports[`bodyToNode should handle inline media when mediaIsVisible is true 1`] = `
+<DocumentFragment>
+  <span
+    class="mx_EventTile_body markdown-body translate"
+    dir="auto"
+  >
+    <img
+      src="https://example.org/img"
+      style="max-width:800px;max-height:600px"
+    />
+    foo Hello there
+  </span>
+</DocumentFragment>
+`;