Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

This is crazy. If a try and send a number of images and a video, the total size is too much too e-mail, so it asks me if I want to use Maildrop. So I select that, but when it arrives in my inbox, the images are there but the video has been lost!! Tried several times, same result. So Maildrop isn't working right either. There must be millions of people having trouble. Apple - please sort these issues quickly or we'll all move to Android.

This happened to me as well. when sending form my photos to my email so i could attach them, now they are embedded, which is much more difficult and not as useful.

how do i now send them as attachments?

If you have updated to iOS 14 and can't send photos as email attachments, there is a fix, pending Apple GETTING THEIR ACT TOGETHER and sorting it. This was driving me mad too. Record a short (1-2 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. Please Apple sort it out - hoped just released iOS 14.1 would resolve, but it didn't.

The solutions posted by users (not Apple mind you) are not options that work in a practical manner when you need to send multiple pictures. I shouldn't need to make a video to send an attachment NOR should I need to send to myself , right click, save and send as an attachment. Who thought embedding images was a good idea? Stop trying to do something "inventive" with a basic email function that thousands if not millions of people use. It worked PERFECT until I decided to update my phone, who would have thought of all functions that would get jacked up this would be it......sending an attachment in an email. Fix your software Apple, you have created a complete joke.

Completely agree. Why Apple hasn't sorted this issue is bizarre and completely unacceptable for the millions of users, especially after issuing an update in the last few days.. Also, having just upgraded to iOS14.1 a day ago, the e-mail app now opens on a blank page saying "no message selected". So this needs fixing too. Oh dear.

Same problem - I want to email myself my pictures so I can save them on a thumb drive. I'm guessing it was an intentional change by Apple & they will not "fix" it.

It is probably a way for Apple to get us to buy their cloud product - which I never could figure out - for managing photos.

I'm ready for a phone upgrade - I think I will do away with Apple - I never could figure out how to save the photos off of my phone. I tried connecting it to my laptop but I could not download the photos. I tried going through their cloud product, but the images did not seem to be the original pictures, but some grainy downgrade of the original photo. The only work around for this problem was to email myself each picture one at a time which in and of itself was a royal pain. NOW THIS! I now have no way of saving my pictures from my phone. I'm DONE!

I found a work around until hopefully they fix the issue. I send a minimum of 15 pictures a day to myself for work containing reports I have turn in. And my sites have no other way but to text me pictures. If you go to the picture, hit print take two fingers and swipe from the middle out to , two opposite corners it creates a PDF. Just have to be careful it will cute sides off. But this is the quickest way I am finding at the moment.

Hi, 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 (14.2)!!!! 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.

Go to your photos before you compose the email. Touch “Select” (at top) those photos you want to send. Go to the box with the “up” arrow (it’s at the bottom on iPad). Select your type of email or where you want photos to go. I went to gmail, then composed it, told it to whom to send it, pressed the send arrow, waited, waited, and off it went!

P.S. It was a pain to try to resolve. I agree with all of you, why change a good thing!

Prior to downloading IOS 14, I could send an image from my Iphone 8 to a email recipient, via Outlook, as an attachment, and now the images will only be embedded. This is a major issue for my work and I wonder how I can resolve back to sending images as attachments

I have the same problem. I'm using hotmail and sending photos to gmail and all the photos are embedded in the email body. Very tedious to download each one individually.

I have discovered a slight work around with a minor drawback. Not sure if someone has mentioned it as I haven't read through all the replies.

If you send the email using gmail, the photos should be sent as attachments and should allow the recipient to "save all" or "download all." The minor drawback is that you can only send 10 photos at a time (or there's some other attachment size restriction).

Hope this helps until Apple fixes this issue.

I’ll repeat what has been said several times. There is no such thing as an image embedded in an email. ALL images are sent as attachments. Some email apps show the attachments in the body of the email. But you can still download them as attachments.

in that case, how can you easily move them into an email in outlook on my Windows computer? as many others have said in this thrread, before the upgrade, all i had to do was mail them to myself and they'd show up as a pdf i could easily drag into a message. now they are shown as images and not easy to move or resend.

Sorry, y’all, who wish to see images as only icons, in some sequestered portion of a text email: those days have long passed.

Yes. Some email clients have held onto this format for plain/text emails, but such an ancient format was going the way of the “Dodo” even in the 90s, let alone the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Such will become increasingly rare!

It’s simply the way of the march of technology.