diff --git a/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx b/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx
index 78530d4d..bf6161b4 100644
--- a/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx
+++ b/src/components/EmailBodyView.tsx
@@ -16,12 +16,13 @@ import { isSenderContentTrusted, isTrustedSendersSyncOn } from '../lib/trusted-s
 import { senderVerificationOf } from '../lib/email-headers';
 import { plainTextReading } from '../lib/html-to-readable-text';
 import { buildMailTextSizeScript, mailTextFactor } from '../lib/mail-reading';
+import { buildPauseAnimatedImagesScript, withReducedMotion } from '../lib/mail-motion';
 import { useHasContacts } from '../lib/capabilities';
 import { useSettingsStore } from '../stores/settings-store';
 import { useContactsStore } from '../stores/contacts-store';
 import { useLocaleStore } from '../stores/locale-store';
 import { spacing, typography, type ThemePalette } from '../theme/tokens';
-import { useTypography } from '../theme/dynamic';
+import { useShouldAnimate, useTypography } from '../theme/dynamic';
 import { useColors, useResolvedTheme } from '../theme/colors';
 import { perfEndAfterPaint, perfLap } from '../lib/perf-marks';
 import type { RootStackParamList } from '../navigation/types';
@@ -552,6 +553,10 @@ export default function EmailBodyView({
   // scaled body style, so it follows whatever steps the text size setting has.
   const dyn = useTypography();
   const textFactor = mailTextFactor(dyn.body.fontSize / typography.body.fontSize, PixelRatio.getFontScale());
+  // Reduce motion (the system setting, or the app's animations switch) holds
+  // inside mail too: CSS animations stop and animated images pause behind a
+  // Play button (webmail 24a13cc1f, bb7869798).
+  const reduceMotion = !useShouldAnimate();
   const trustedSenderEmails = useContactsStore((s) => s.trustedSenderEmails);
   const trustedSendersLoaded = useContactsStore((s) => s.trustedSendersLoaded);
   const loadTrustedSendersBook = useContactsStore((s) => s.loadTrustedSendersBook);
@@ -713,7 +718,14 @@ export default function EmailBodyView({
     messageSpacing, plainTextFont, quoteLabels, textFactor, plainDarkColors,
   ]);
 
-  const source = React.useMemo(() => ({ html: prepared.html }), [prepared.html]);
+  const source = React.useMemo(
+    () => ({ html: reduceMotion && prepared.isHtml ? withReducedMotion(prepared.html) : prepared.html }),
+    [prepared.html, prepared.isHtml, reduceMotion],
+  );
+  const pauseLabels = React.useMemo(() => ({
+    play: t('email_viewer.play_animation', 'Play animation'),
+    pause: t('email_viewer.pause_animation', 'Pause animation'),
+  }), [t]);
   const showBanner = shouldBlock && prepared.blockedExternal;
   // Still cut off after the API's larger refetch (or the refetch failed).
   const showTruncated = !bodyOverride && hasTruncatedDisplayedBody(email);
@@ -727,8 +739,9 @@ export default function EmailBodyView({
       + (prepared.isHtml ? buildQuoteCollapseScript(quoteLabels) : '')
       + (prepared.applyInversion ? DARK_REINVERT_SCRIPT : '')
       + (prepared.isHtml ? IMG_FIXUP_SCRIPT : '')
+      + (prepared.isHtml && reduceMotion ? buildPauseAnimatedImagesScript(pauseLabels) : '')
       + HEIGHT_REPORTER + SWIPE_DETECTOR + PINCH_ZOOM,
-    [prepared.isHtml, prepared.applyInversion, quoteLabels, textFactor],
+    [prepared.isHtml, prepared.applyInversion, quoteLabels, textFactor, reduceMotion, pauseLabels],
   );
 
   // Performance harness: how much of opening a message is the WebView.
diff --git a/src/lib/__tests__/mail-motion.test.ts b/src/lib/__tests__/mail-motion.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13dad774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/__tests__/mail-motion.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { buildPauseAnimatedImagesScript, IS_ANIMATED_SOURCE, MAIL_REDUCED_MOTION_CSS, withReducedMotion } from '../mail-motion';
+
+// The app follows the system's reduce motion, but mail kept its CSS
+// animations and moving GIFs (webmail 24a13cc1f, bb7869798).
+
+const isAnimated = new Function(`${IS_ANIMATED_SOURCE}; return isAnimatedImageData;`)() as (b: Uint8Array) => boolean;
+
+function gif(frames: number): Uint8Array {
+  const head = [...'GIF89a'].map((ch) => ch.charCodeAt(0));
+  const screen = [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0]; // 1x1, no global colour table
+  const frame = [0x2c, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0]; // descriptor, LZW size, one sub-block, end
+  const extension = [0x21, 0xf9, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]; // graphic control extension
+  const body: number[] = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < frames; i++) body.push(...extension, ...frame);
+  return new Uint8Array([...head, ...screen, ...body, 0x3b]);
+}
+
+function png(chunks: string[]): Uint8Array {
+  const out = [0x89, 0x50, 0x4e, 0x47, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x1a, 0x0a];
+  for (const type of chunks) out.push(0, 0, 0, 0, ...[...type].map((ch) => ch.charCodeAt(0)), 0, 0, 0, 0);
+  return new Uint8Array(out);
+}
+
+const base64 = (bytes: Uint8Array) => Buffer.from(bytes).toString('base64');
+
+describe('reduce motion in mail', () => {
+  it('tells animated GIF, APNG and WebP from still images', () => {
+    expect(isAnimated(gif(2))).toBe(true);
+    expect(isAnimated(gif(1))).toBe(false);
+    expect(isAnimated(png(['IHDR', 'acTL', 'IDAT']))).toBe(true);
+    expect(isAnimated(png(['IHDR', 'IDAT']))).toBe(false);
+    const webp = (flags: number) => new Uint8Array([...'RIFF\0\0\0\0WEBPVP8X'].map((ch) => ch.charCodeAt(0)).concat([0, 0, 0, 0, flags, 0, 0, 0]));
+    expect(isAnimated(webp(0x02))).toBe(true);
+    expect(isAnimated(webp(0x00))).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('stops CSS animations in the body', () => {
+    const html = withReducedMotion('<html><body><p>hi</p></body></html>');
+    expect(html).toContain(`<style data-bulwark-reduced-motion>${MAIL_REDUCED_MOTION_CSS}</style></body>`);
+    expect(MAIL_REDUCED_MOTION_CSS).toContain('animation-duration:0.01ms!important');
+  });
+
+  it('swaps an animated image for a still frame with a Play button, and plays it on tap', () => {
+    const made: FakeEl[] = [];
+    let clickHandler: ((e: unknown) => void) | null = null;
+    class FakeEl {
+      attrs = new Map<string, string>();
+      children: FakeEl[] = [];
+      parentNode: FakeEl | null = null;
+      textContent = '';
+      type = '';
+      width = 0;
+      height = 0;
+      naturalWidth = 10;
+      complete = true;
+      style = { props: new Map<string, string>(), width: '', setProperty(k: string, v: string) { this.props.set(k, v); }, removeProperty(k: string) { this.props.delete(k); } };
+      constructor(public tagName: string) { made.push(this); }
+      get parentElement() { return this.parentNode; }
+      setAttribute(k: string, v: string) { this.attrs.set(k, v); }
+      getAttribute(k: string) { return this.attrs.get(k) ?? null; }
+      hasAttribute(k: string) { return this.attrs.has(k); }
+      appendChild(c: FakeEl) { c.parentNode?.children.splice(c.parentNode.children.indexOf(c), 1); c.parentNode = this; this.children.push(c); }
+      insertBefore(c: FakeEl, ref: FakeEl) { c.parentNode = this; this.children.splice(this.children.indexOf(ref), 0, c); }
+      getBoundingClientRect() { return { width: 10 }; }
+      getContext() { return { drawImage: () => undefined }; }
+      addEventListener() { /* loaded already */ }
+      querySelector(sel: string) { return this.children.find((c) => (sel.startsWith('canvas') ? c.tagName === 'CANVAS' : c.tagName === 'IMG')) ?? null; }
+      closest(sel: string) { return sel.startsWith('button') && this.tagName === 'BUTTON' ? this : null; }
+    }
+    const body = new FakeEl('BODY');
+    const moving = new FakeEl('IMG');
+    moving.setAttribute('src', `data:image/gif;base64,${base64(gif(3))}`);
+    const still = new FakeEl('IMG');
+    still.setAttribute('src', `data:image/gif;base64,${base64(gif(1))}`);
+    body.appendChild(moving);
+    body.appendChild(still);
+    const document = {
+      body,
+      head: new FakeEl('HEAD'),
+      createElement: (tag: string) => new FakeEl(tag.toUpperCase()),
+      querySelectorAll: () => [moving, still],
+      addEventListener: (_: string, fn: (e: unknown) => void) => { clickHandler = fn; },
+    };
+    const atob = (s: string) => Buffer.from(s, 'base64').toString('binary');
+    new Function('document', 'atob', 'URL', buildPauseAnimatedImagesScript({ play: 'Play animation', pause: 'Pause animation' }))(document, atob, URL);
+
+    const wrap = body.children[0];
+    expect(wrap.tagName).toBe('SPAN');
+    const [button, canvas, img] = wrap.children;
+    expect(button.textContent).toBe('Play animation');
+    expect(canvas.tagName).toBe('CANVAS');
+    expect(img).toBe(moving);
+    expect(moving.style.props.get('display')).toBe('none');
+    // The single-frame GIF is left alone.
+    expect(body.children[1]).toBe(still);
+
+    const event = { target: button, preventDefault: () => undefined, stopImmediatePropagation: () => undefined };
+    clickHandler!(event);
+    expect(button.textContent).toBe('Pause animation');
+    expect(moving.style.props.has('display')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('is applied by the body view while motion is reduced', () => {
+    const view = fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../../components/EmailBodyView.tsx'), 'utf8');
+    expect(view).toMatch(/const reduceMotion = !useShouldAnimate\(\);/);
+    expect(view).toMatch(/reduceMotion && prepared\.isHtml \? withReducedMotion\(prepared\.html\)/);
+    expect(view).toMatch(/prepared\.isHtml && reduceMotion \? buildPauseAnimatedImagesScript\(pauseLabels\)/);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/mail-motion.ts b/src/lib/mail-motion.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7ffe3305
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/mail-motion.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+/**
+ * Reduce motion inside a message body (webmail lib/mail-reading.ts
+ * MAIL_REDUCED_MOTION_CSS, 24a13cc1f, and lib/animated-images.ts,
+ * bb7869798): CSS animations and transitions stop, and each animated GIF,
+ * WebP or APNG shows a still frame with a Play button.
+ *
+ * The page allows no script of its own, so the pause runs as a script the
+ * body view injects; the frame check is written out as a string because the
+ * app's JS engine (Hermes) can't hand a function's source to the page.
+ */
+
+/** Stops CSS animations and transitions in a mail. */
+export const MAIL_REDUCED_MOTION_CSS = '*,*::before,*::after{animation-duration:0.01ms!important;animation-iteration-count:1!important;animation-delay:0s!important;transition-duration:0.01ms!important;transition-delay:0s!important;scroll-behavior:auto!important}';
+
+/** Puts the reduce-motion style sheet into a built body document. */
+export function withReducedMotion(html: string): string {
+  const style = `<style data-bulwark-reduced-motion>${MAIL_REDUCED_MOTION_CSS}</style>`;
+  const at = html.lastIndexOf('</body>');
+  return at < 0 ? html + style : html.slice(0, at) + style + html.slice(at);
+}
+
+/**
+ * `function isAnimatedImageData(bytes)`: whether image bytes hold more than
+ * one frame (GIF image descriptors, an APNG acTL chunk, the WebP animation
+ * flag). Shared by the page script and the tests.
+ */
+export const IS_ANIMATED_SOURCE = `function isAnimatedImageData(bytes) {
+  if (!bytes || bytes.length < 12) return false;
+  function ascii(start, length) {
+    var s = '';
+    for (var k = start; k < start + length && k < bytes.length; k++) s += String.fromCharCode(bytes[k]);
+    return s;
+  }
+  var i;
+  if (ascii(0, 4) === 'GIF8') {
+    i = 13;
+    var flags = bytes[10];
+    if (flags & 0x80) i += 3 * (1 << ((flags & 0x07) + 1));
+    var frames = 0;
+    var skipSubBlocks = function () {
+      while (i < bytes.length && bytes[i] !== 0) i += bytes[i] + 1;
+      i += 1;
+    };
+    while (i < bytes.length) {
+      var block = bytes[i];
+      if (block === 0x2c) {
+        frames += 1;
+        if (frames > 1) return true;
+        var local = bytes[i + 9];
+        i += 10;
+        if (local & 0x80) i += 3 * (1 << ((local & 0x07) + 1));
+        i += 1;
+        skipSubBlocks();
+      } else if (block === 0x21) {
+        i += 2;
+        skipSubBlocks();
+      } else {
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+  if (bytes[0] === 0x89 && ascii(1, 3) === 'PNG') {
+    i = 8;
+    while (i + 8 <= bytes.length) {
+      var length = ((bytes[i] << 24) | (bytes[i + 1] << 16) | (bytes[i + 2] << 8) | bytes[i + 3]) >>> 0;
+      var type = ascii(i + 4, 4);
+      if (type === 'acTL') return true;
+      if (type === 'IDAT' || type === 'IEND') return false;
+      i += 12 + length;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+  if (ascii(0, 4) === 'RIFF' && ascii(8, 4) === 'WEBP') {
+    if (ascii(12, 4) === 'VP8X' && bytes.length > 20) return (bytes[20] & 0x02) !== 0;
+    return false;
+  }
+  return false;
+}`;
+
+export interface PauseLabels {
+  play: string;
+  pause: string;
+}
+
+const TOGGLE_ATTR = 'data-bulwark-animation';
+const STILL_ATTR = 'data-bulwark-still';
+
+const PAUSE_STYLE = `[${TOGGLE_ATTR}-wrap]{position:relative;display:inline-block;max-width:100%;line-height:0}`
+  + `canvas[${STILL_ATTR}]{max-width:100%;height:auto}`
+  + `button[${TOGGLE_ATTR}]{position:absolute;top:6px;inset-inline-start:6px;z-index:1;min-width:32px;min-height:32px;padding:4px 10px;border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:999px;background:rgba(0,0,0,.75);color:#fff;font:600 13px/1.2 system-ui,sans-serif;animation:none!important;transition:none!important}`;
+
+/**
+ * Script that freezes the animated images of the body: each one is swapped
+ * for a canvas holding its first frame, with a Play button on top; Play shows
+ * the moving image again and the button becomes Pause. Inline images (data:
+ * URIs) are checked by their bytes; a remote image only by its name (.gif,
+ * .apng), since the page can't fetch it. Runs once per document.
+ */
+export function buildPauseAnimatedImagesScript(labels: PauseLabels): string {
+  const cfg = JSON.stringify({ play: labels.play, pause: labels.pause, style: PAUSE_STYLE });
+  return `
+(function () {
+  if (document.__rnPauseImages || !document.body) return;
+  document.__rnPauseImages = true;
+  var C = ${cfg};
+  var T = '${TOGGLE_ATTR}';
+  var S = '${STILL_ATTR}';
+  ${IS_ANIMATED_SOURCE}
+  function dataBytes(src) {
+    var m = /^data:[^,]*;base64,([\\s\\S]*)$/i.exec(src);
+    if (!m) return null;
+    try {
+      var bin = atob(m[1].replace(/\\s+/g, ''));
+      var out = new Uint8Array(bin.length);
+      for (var i = 0; i < bin.length; i++) out[i] = bin.charCodeAt(i);
+      return out;
+    } catch (e) { return null; }
+  }
+  function mayMove(src) {
+    if (/^data:/i.test(src)) return isAnimatedImageData(dataBytes(src));
+    if (/^https?:/i.test(src)) {
+      try { return /\\.(gif|apng)$/i.test(new URL(src).pathname); } catch (e) { return false; }
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+  function draw(img, canvas) {
+    var ctx = canvas.getContext && canvas.getContext('2d');
+    if (!ctx) return false;
+    canvas.width = img.naturalWidth;
+    canvas.height = img.naturalHeight;
+    try { ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0); } catch (e) { return false; }
+    return true;
+  }
+  function freeze(img) {
+    if (img.hasAttribute(S) || img.naturalWidth <= 1) return;
+    img.setAttribute(S, '');
+    if (!mayMove(img.currentSrc || img.getAttribute('src') || '')) return;
+    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
+    if (!draw(img, canvas)) return;
+    var width = img.getBoundingClientRect().width;
+    canvas.setAttribute(S, '');
+    ['class', 'style'].forEach(function (a) { var v = img.getAttribute(a); if (v) canvas.setAttribute(a, v); });
+    if (width > 0) canvas.style.width = width + 'px';
+    var alt = (img.getAttribute('alt') || '').trim();
+    if (alt) { canvas.setAttribute('role', 'img'); canvas.setAttribute('aria-label', alt); }
+    else canvas.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true');
+    var wrap = document.createElement('span');
+    wrap.setAttribute(T + '-wrap', '');
+    var button = document.createElement('button');
+    button.type = 'button';
+    button.setAttribute(T, 'paused');
+    button.textContent = C.play;
+    img.parentNode && img.parentNode.insertBefore(wrap, img);
+    wrap.appendChild(button);
+    wrap.appendChild(canvas);
+    wrap.appendChild(img);
+    img.style.setProperty('display', 'none', 'important');
+  }
+  var style = document.createElement('style');
+  style.textContent = C.style;
+  (document.head || document.body).appendChild(style);
+  // Capture phase, so a button inside a linked image doesn't open the link.
+  document.addEventListener('click', function (event) {
+    var button = event.target && event.target.closest ? event.target.closest('button[' + T + ']') : null;
+    if (!button) return;
+    event.preventDefault();
+    event.stopImmediatePropagation();
+    var wrap = button.parentElement;
+    var canvas = wrap && wrap.querySelector('canvas[' + S + ']');
+    var img = wrap && wrap.querySelector('img');
+    if (!canvas || !img) return;
+    if (button.getAttribute(T) === 'paused') {
+      img.style.removeProperty('display');
+      canvas.style.setProperty('display', 'none');
+      button.setAttribute(T, 'playing');
+      button.textContent = C.pause;
+    } else {
+      draw(img, canvas);
+      canvas.style.removeProperty('display');
+      img.style.setProperty('display', 'none', 'important');
+      button.setAttribute(T, 'paused');
+      button.textContent = C.play;
+    }
+  }, true);
+  var imgs = document.querySelectorAll('img');
+  for (var n = 0; n < imgs.length; n++) {
+    (function (img) {
+      if (img.complete) freeze(img);
+      else img.addEventListener('load', function () { freeze(img); }, { once: true });
+    })(imgs[n]);
+  }
+})();
+true;
+`;
+}