Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

Same issue here, it boggles my mind that there’s still no easy solution for it. Will leave my “feedback” to Apple and look for suitable workaround.

Would it be too much to ask Apple to speak to Microsoft?

This worked! Thank you so much for the steps. I was able to send an email, as an attachment, to another email address and it was in great quality. Many thanks!

with Fastmail, when writing a mail, you can directly attach a picture from your Photo Library and that's done!

On the other Side, with Apple Mail, it's not possible!! When writing a mail (from your iPhone), you do not have a button giving you the possibility to attach files or photos or whatever you want .... just a fact!

It sounds like you should check again!

I have the same problem. I can’t submit photos for insurance claim because they won’t accept embedded photos.

Exactly. Is there an Apple employee seeing this issue. I wish Steve Jobs was still alive. They are ruining Apple iPhone experience.

I have the same issue. I've discovered that when I was able to attach pictures to e-mail prior to IOS 14, the e-mails were being sent as plain text. Since IOS 14, every e-mail program I've tried (Mail and Outlook) will only send e-mails in HTML format and always embed photos in the body. Is there a way to force Mail to send a plain text e-mail? Before you could do it if you didn't have any special formatting in the e-mail.

I also have the same issue. I need to be able to take good quality photos as attachments, save and send them on to a global motor manufacturer to assist motor vehicle warranty claims. It is now affecting our business by delaying the claims process. Please sort this Apple, immediately if not sooner. Thank you!!

Having the same issue here! I take multiple photos out of office which are sent back to my work computer to forward onto customers. Now instead of simply dragging & dropping the photos, I have to save each individual photo! Don't fix what isn't broken, how does this help anyone?

Help !! This is ridiculous ! I've just had all my employees install iOS 14 and now we can't e-mail jpeg pictures from our phones to our work e-mail addresses ! This is BAD ! Apple, why would you do this ??? Photos embedded in an e-mail DOES NOT WORK !!

Please issue a fix asap. I have employees that depend on e-mailing pictures they take with their phones as ATTACHMENTS.

We own close to 50 iPhones for employees. We are a voice that should be listened to !! This upgrade is NOT an upgrade - huge step backwards. Please fix / reverse !

I also have the same issue. I likewise use my phone at work to take a bunch of photos and send to my work PC. I was able to send photos as an attachment instead of embedded through my Gmail account. The only problem was that the attachments were full size and a really big file. They need to fix this.

Please tell me there is a fix to this, or I'll have to move to Samsung or I can not longer use an IPhone for me or my employees with our constant forwarding of Photos (Which NEED TO BE IN AN ATTACHED FILE FORMAT".....

A really helpful member has already posted a fix to this, but I will repaste it here to save you looking.

If you have updated to iOS 14 and can't send photos as email attachments, there is a fix, pending Apple sorting, we hope, with the next update (14.0.2)!!!! This was driving me mad too as I need to do it for work. Record a 1 second video. Include it with selection of photos you want to attach. They will all go with the email as attachments, then you discard the video. Bit daft, but it works. Make it a really short video or it makes the file size of the attachments rather large. Hope it works for you.

Thanks for your quick clue.

I followed your hints and attached the short video together with 2 photos in the email and send to my PC Outlook email client. I found that it really works BUT only the short video and 1 photo were received as attachment. I did it multiple times and the result is the same. Everyday, I use the phone taking many photos for work and email to my PC and then quickly forward them to other people for sharing. With this iOS 14 update, I am crazy depressed why Apple will change its original good work !!!!!

Instead of sending the pics to your email through the email app, try sending them to your email through the messaging app. I tried this, and it worked, pics were sent as .jpg attachments to my desktop email. Then, just a matter of drag and drop into folders as usual. I've spread the word in my office, and it seems to work for everyone, though some people tell me that the email from text ends up in the junk folder since it's seen by Outlook as an external email. In any case, it's there and usable. Give it a shot.