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When I, and others, receive an email that contains a PDF attachment on their iPad or iPhone running iOS 13.x, the PDF shows up in the body of the actual email. I/We don't have to separately open the attachment, it's just there.
Thanks in advance!
Very help answer, but the design seems rather silly. If I want to save 3, single page PDFs, and email them they all show up in the body of the email. Anything with 2 or more pages is an attachment. Makes it difficult for the recipient to save and file.
Very help answer, but the design seems rather silly. If I want to save 3, single page PDFs, and email them they all show up in the body of the email. Anything with 2 or more pages is an attachment. Makes it difficult for the recipient to save and file.
How the recipient sees the file and how you see it when you add it to the email are unrelated.
Yes, if the PDF is a single page PDF, it automatically shows it in the body of the email you are composing, if it has 2 or more pages, it will be shown as a file icon attached to the body of the email instead. However, whether the recipient sees it as such or as just an attachment, is controlled by whatever email client they are using.
Apple's own default email app in its devices, will show it in the body of the email, other email clients like outlook, or Thunderbird, will very likely simply show it as an attachment outside the actual email.
How the recipient then saves the attachment, is not for you to control. Each recipient should be capable of saving the attachment by whichever method their email client provides regardless of how you see it.
There is no control over this, and there does not need to be, since any control you may have would only be local to you, and have no effect on how the recipient's email client chooses to display the attachment.
Answers - the response to Q4 is likely the most relevant to you.
1) We don’t know. iOS/iPadOS decides for itself (algorithm unknown) whether to show an attachment inline with text - or as a separate attachment.
2) inline / attachment.
3) Always present - to my knowledge, this isn’t a new behaviour.
4) No.
Sufficient time has passed for a *Bump* - Still looking for an update on this.
The same question asked differently:
To be extra clear:
Hi there & thanks for taking the time to reply.
While this is a good tip I'm sure others will find handy, it unfortunately does not address any of the questions in the post.
But this is good to know for others that may stumble on this, thanks.
I seem to recall that we could control attachment previews a while back in older versions of Mac OS X, but unfortunately that no longer seems to be the case.
Also, I believe that what determines whether an attached PDF will show as an icon or as a preview is the page count. If I'm not mistaken, Mail shows previews of single-page PDFs, but icons only for multiple-page PDFs.
Hello,
If you wish to open this PDF document within another application then Long-Press on the document > Open In.
Thanks! That is very helpful to know. I clearly had no idea the differences between sender and receiver settings.
What's the Feature that Shows PDF Attachments in the Email Body?
