diff --git a/extensions/copilot/package.json b/extensions/copilot/package.json
index e5270e16f26..8f4de4e14c9 100644
--- a/extensions/copilot/package.json
+++ b/extensions/copilot/package.json
@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@
 				"toolReferenceName": "viewImage",
 				"displayName": "%copilot.tools.viewImage.name%",
 				"userDescription": "%copilot.tools.viewImage.userDescription%",
+				"when": "config.github.copilot.chat.tools.viewImage.enabled",
 				"modelDescription": "View the contents of an image file. Use this instead of read_file for supported image files such as png, jpg, jpeg, gif, and webp. The tool returns the image directly to multimodal models and does not take line ranges or offsets.",
 				"inputSchema": {
 					"type": "object",
@@ -3163,6 +3164,15 @@
 							"preview"
 						]
 					},
+					"github.copilot.chat.tools.viewImage.enabled": {
+						"type": "boolean",
+						"default": true,
+						"markdownDescription": "%github.copilot.config.tools.viewImage.enabled%",
+						"tags": [
+							"preview",
+							"onExp"
+						]
+					},
 					"github.copilot.chat.anthropic.thinking.budgetTokens": {
 						"type": "number",
 						"markdownDescription": "%github.copilot.config.anthropic.thinking.budgetTokens%",
@@ -6222,4 +6232,4 @@
 		"zod": "3.25.76"
 	},
 	"vscodeCommit": "6f7de9c47ab13c3d886928c04c382d527c9bf11d"
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/extensions/copilot/package.nls.json b/extensions/copilot/package.nls.json
index 38476248836..43f85fce7c5 100644
--- a/extensions/copilot/package.nls.json
+++ b/extensions/copilot/package.nls.json
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@
 	"copilot.tools.readFile.userDescription": "Read the contents of a file",
 	"copilot.tools.viewImage.name": "View Image",
 	"copilot.tools.viewImage.userDescription": "View the contents of an image file",
+	"github.copilot.config.tools.viewImage.enabled": "Enable the view image tool, which allows the agent to view image files such as png, jpg, jpeg, gif, and webp.",
 	"copilot.tools.listDirectory.name": "List Dir",
 	"copilot.tools.listDirectory.userDescription": "List the contents of a directory",
 	"copilot.tools.getTaskOutput.name": "Get Task Output",
diff --git a/extensions/copilot/src/platform/configuration/common/configurationService.ts b/extensions/copilot/src/platform/configuration/common/configurationService.ts
index a353534c342..36168fc1f6f 100644
--- a/extensions/copilot/src/platform/configuration/common/configurationService.ts
+++ b/extensions/copilot/src/platform/configuration/common/configurationService.ts
@@ -976,6 +976,7 @@ export namespace ConfigKey {
 
 	export const CopilotMemoryEnabled = defineSetting<boolean>('chat.copilotMemory.enabled', ConfigType.ExperimentBased, false);
 	export const MemoryToolEnabled = defineSetting<boolean>('chat.tools.memory.enabled', ConfigType.ExperimentBased, true);
+	export const ViewImageToolEnabled = defineSetting<boolean>('chat.tools.viewImage.enabled', ConfigType.ExperimentBased, true);
 }
 
 export function getAllConfigKeys(): string[] {