diff --git a/src/components/views/messages/MImageBody.tsx b/src/components/views/messages/MImageBody.tsx
index 45f18f9642..371b88db41 100644
--- a/src/components/views/messages/MImageBody.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/messages/MImageBody.tsx
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ export default class MImageBody extends React.Component<IBodyProps, IState> {
         if (content.info?.w && content.info?.h) {
             infoWidth = content.info.w;
             infoHeight = content.info.h;
-            infoSvg = content.info.mimetype.startsWith("image/svg");
+            infoSvg = content.info.mimetype === "image/svg+xml";
         } else {
             // Whilst the image loads, display nothing. We also don't display a blurhash image
             // because we don't really know what size of image we'll end up with.
diff --git a/src/utils/Image.ts b/src/utils/Image.ts
index 66d43b1ca4..d4f5ba69eb 100644
--- a/src/utils/Image.ts
+++ b/src/utils/Image.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 import { arrayHasDiff } from "./arrays";
 
-export function mayBeAnimated(mimeType: string): boolean {
+export function mayBeAnimated(mimeType?: string): boolean {
     // AVIF animation support at the time of writing is only available in Chrome hence not having `blobIsAnimated` check
     return ["image/gif", "image/webp", "image/png", "image/apng", "image/avif"].includes(mimeType);
 }
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ function arrayBufferReadStr(arr: ArrayBuffer, start: number, len: number): strin
     return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, arrayBufferRead(arr, start, len));
 }
 
-export async function blobIsAnimated(mimeType: string, blob: Blob): Promise<boolean> {
+export async function blobIsAnimated(mimeType: string | undefined, blob: Blob): Promise<boolean> {
     switch (mimeType) {
         case "image/webp": {
             // Only extended file format WEBP images support animation, so grab the expected data range and verify header.