Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

I send myself pictures quite often as well and this now totally takes more time to deal with. I need to send pictures to customers and now I cannot send just an attachment to a picture just using my cell phone. It now has to be this large picture in the middle of my emails. How ridiculous to change this feature. Please fix soon.

Really frustrating, a couple of years ago I had this same issue and along the way it was fixed with an upate. I was so disappointed after updating yesterday to find we have reverted back to photos being embedded, I take photos daily for work and have to email them to the office, just not practical. If you could please fix this apple it would be appreciated and please explain to us why this has changed?

I am having this exact same problem since updating to 14.0. I need to send photos daily that be saved on different devices. There is nothing worse than an embedded photo, they are difficult to save, mess up the viewing of the email. This needs to be fixed!

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.

fhfoote wrote:

yeah, I’m going to start using FTP to send 5 pictures of a building for a prospective buyer. I’ll send the buyer a tutorial in how to configure the FTP for downloading pictures. LOL

Actually, you should be using Dropbox, Box.com, Google Photos or similar. It’s much better for the recipient, because they can view all of the images on one screen. When you upload to Dropbox you can create a shared folder, invite the recipient with a custom message in Dropbox share settings, and Dropbox will notify the recipient by email about how to view it. There are apps for Dropbox, box.com, google photos and many similar apps in the app store, and the apps are free. So is basic dropbox and google photos service, although if you are a heavy user an annual subscription is probably a better idea.

Boy - have I attracted some vitriol. I have provided helpful feedback to Apple; but as we are now on iOS 14.2, clearly Apple do not intend to reverse the change and we technical dinosaurs shall all be required to amend our modus operandi and use the alternative methods widely discussed.

Let me try again: The way a picture is handed on the receiving end is up to the the app that is used to display it. Outlook displays pictures in-line in the message. Even if they are sent as attachments.

And, as I said earlier also, ALL pictures in email are sent as attachments even if you can embed it in the message body; how they appear on the receiving end is up to the app that is used to read them.

Actually, XOOOO, I would like to add to my comments.

If y’all have been only attaching photos, with no text, or with no text that uses any form of formatting—so it could just as well be plain-text—it is also possible that there have been absolutely no changes in the email protocols used in iOS 14.2 vs. iOS 12.4.8!

Under the aforementioned conditions, it is simply quite possible that the iOS 12.4.8 email default format was plain-text, while the iOS 14.2 email default format is rich-text (HTML).

Under the aforementioned conditions, this would similarly explain the observations.

Unfortunately for y’all, it is far simpler to force a plain-text default to a rich-text format—simply change the format of some text—than it is to force a rich-text default to a plain-text format.

I cannot determine, at this time, which is the explanation.

However, as always, complaining here (to be seen complaining) will accomplish nothing constructive.

The only constructive avenue is to avail yourselves of the direct Apple Feedback opportunities that have already been mentioned.

What email client (program) were you using, HaveToAskQuestions, and how did you choose the «save all attachments function on the email»?

As I’ve mentioned before, Apple has no authority of how other email clients treat your email.

As for all email file attachments being just that—attachments—that is a very old aspect of the email protocols, going back to the ‘90s, if not the ‘80s (maybe even earlier). (Basically, for as long as there have ever been the ability to include files as email attachments.)

How a particular email client displays and otherwise treats any given sort of attachment, that is purely up to the particular email client (program).

If you don’t like the way your email client does things, provide the appropriate Feedback to the company that makes your email client, and/or choose a different email client for your use.

I know that the Apple Mail client allows me to save all images with a single operation.

It seems to be the case - at least with me anyway. I have tested it thoroughly and as long as I don't send from my iPhone using my MS Exchange e-mail address, the photos are sent as conventional attachments (rather than in-line). Pre iOS 14, my MS Exchange e-mail address also sent them as conventional attachments. Obviously I have no idea why this should have changed!!! It could also be that those having this problem are mainly business users on Exchange e-mail servers (for calendar and contact synchronisation purposes etc). Interesting! Is this helpful?

Just tested that and (der) you’re 100% correct. When the email is received by outlook on my Mac it comes in as embedded. Sent from Spark it doesn’t. Sending from iOS mail to MacOS mail = all good. So back to Microsoft and their automatic updates. 🤫

prior to IOS 14, if HTML was present in your email signature the photos would be sent embedded. So if you wanted to attach you had to remove any HTML in the signature for the images to act as attachments. If IOS 14 is only HTML then that’s the issue.

I think Halliday said Apple 🍎 mail is only HTML now. So you don’t have a choice between plain text and html. Unless they give you a setting option to do plain text, I think the unembedded image attachment option is gone for good.

They have always been attachments, JLeitner1980, regardless how any particular email client may render (display) said email.

The only problem is that when Microsoft Outlook displays the attached pictures inline, rather than “lumped” at the end, Outlook disallows you, the user, from bulk operations on the attachments.

If Microsoft will ever fix this, y’all will be set.

You’re using Microsoft Outlook to receive the email, right?

Oh, I recognize that there is a difference in using the Apple Mail App to send to a Microsoft Exchange server (from which you access your email using Microsoft Outlook), vs. using Messages to text your email address, with a text containing photos.

Additionally, people have found that if they use Apple Mail, but send the email by way of a non-Exchange server, Outlook does the right thing as well.

For your edification, regardless how Outlook, or any other email client, renders (displays) an email, any photos, or other files, are attached to the email in the same way: it’s a very old part of the email Internet protocols.

It doesn’t matter whether Outlook, or any other email client, renders (displays) an email with photos inline (what all too many, here, keep calling “embedded”), or all listed at the end, or the beginning, or whatever, the photos are attached to the email as attachments.

The problem is simply that when Microsoft Outlook renders (displays) photos inline, it disallows you, the user, from performing bulk save operations on these attachments.

If Outlook didn’t do this, to y’all, there would be no issue.