Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

I answered this already: both are very annoying. I notice the way you are always trying to lay the blame for the problem with the email client, in spite of the fact that the problem seems to persist independent of the email system used for sending or receiving the emails.

To be clear, are the "long term solutions" you are proposing

a) the we persuade all email systems to change their ways to accommodate whatever weird ***** Apple have pulled or

b) accept that we can no longer do what we have done in the past and would like to continue doing, and adopt a less convenient practice?

Technology advances. Email was always a (rather poor) workaround for sharing images when there was nothing better; email is the wrong way to send large numbers of photos. It’s like trying to drive screws with a hammer or nails with a screwdriver. There are many much better ways to securely share photos than email, most of them free unless you are sending thousands: Google Photos, Dropbox, Box.com, Livedrive Briefcase, iCloud Photo sharing, Shutterfly, etc. And all of these are much more secure than email, as they can’t be intercepted by bad people, unlike email. And all of these alternatives are supported on all phones, all tablets, and all computers.

But if you want to continue doing it the out-of-date way you still can by simply installing an email client that allows the attachments to be downloaded, as I demonstrated with Mac Mail. Or many others. Just not Outlook.

welchhartd wrote:

You’re lucky your photos attach. I have gmail, can’t attach photos anymore since the update. Super annoyed.

Nonsense. I have sent photo attachments using gmail this very day, to test it.

I found this works absolutely fine for me, so really odd it doesn't for you, as it seems to be a solution for most people. What iOS are you using? I am using iOS 14.2. I didn't try it with iOS 14 or 14.1, I just wonder whether the situation changed with 14.2?

Halliday thank you for your response , I have sent further emails and find that yes I can send as an attachment from gmail to gmail and can send from gmail to outlook and see as an attachment. But that is not a work around for me. We use Outlook to run our business and need to include photos in our messages. It has always worked perfectly well to forward a photo to my email address or to a colleagues email address in one action. I really don’t want to have to perform extra actions to do something that was so simple before. If anyone has a solution for me please let me know

Unfortunately, text2, the only true solution is in Microsoft’s corner, so long as you use their products.

Anything and everything else is a workaround—working around the issue with Microsoft Outlook—and, as such, is bound to be less convenient.

So far, the simplest workaround is to have Apple Mail send outgoing email through just about any Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server other than a Microsoft Exchange server, even if the target email address will be on a Microsoft Exchange server, and viewed through a Microsoft Outlook email client.

I’m not at all sure why this workaround seems to work, and I expect it will “break”, eventually, as practically all workarounds do.

If I were y’all, I would use the intervening time to find a more permanent solution, possibly including pressuring Microsoft to fix Outlook, so it doesn’t inappropriately restrict your, the user’s, ability to perform bulk attachment operations, simply because Outlook has chosen a certain way of rendering (displaying) your email.

I called Apple Support today with this same issue. I was escalated to a supervisor and they said it must be something they changed. I was advised that if I didn't like it to go to apple.com\feedback and file a complaint there. There is no setting to fix it, it will have to be fixed with another update if they decide that there's enough negative feedback.

Of course, Tracediggs, as has been well demonstrated—including by way of workarounds—the problem is strictly in any email clients (Microsoft Outlook is the only one that has been demonstrated to have the issue, as far as I know) that refuse to allow you, the user, to perform bulk attachment operations simply because of how the email client has chosen to render (display) your received email.

Sure. There was a change in either the default way Apple Mail formats authored emails, or in the implementation of a newer version of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Internet standard used to transfer email from Apple Mail to your chosen SMTP email server (going to a Microsoft Exchange email server seems to be the only troublesome link, here), or both; that seems to have triggered the issue that already existed in Microsoft Outlook.

However, there is simply no guarantee that changing the default authoring format, in Apple Mail, will actually solve the issue.

It might, but no guarantee!

(As for Apple changing the implementation of a newer version of the SMTP Internet standard, I highly doubt that Apple will back-out of such a change, simply because Microsoft hasn’t made the transition, yet.)

My experience of complaining (in general rather than to Apple in particular) is that customer service channels are pretty much the worst way to get attention. For any of you in the UK, I suggest emailing Mark Rogers, the Managing Director of Apple UK, rogers.m@apple.com. I am not suggesting that your email will necessarily get to Mark himself, but it will get to his office.

Failing that, a hard-copy complaint, posted in a pastel-coloured, card-shaped envelope, dabbed with perfume and marked "Personal" will generally get to the addressee's PA, at the very least. This strategy got me out of £14,000 in unfair estate agent's fees a few years ago.

On another note, how can I stop notifications for this thread? I have already turned off "following" but it doesn't seem to have done the trick.

I have the same problem. Spent a LOT of money on my new iPhone cuz I take a lot of photos for work and pleasure and NEED to be able to send as attachments. POOF, overnight this feature is gone which is a HUGE problem for me. How do we get Apple to pay attention to this issue??

There is a two-step work around... send a photo to yourself and then when you open it up and it’s in the body of the email, go to the three dots next to the reply/reply all/forward and click on “Forward as attachment“ and then you can send it to yourself or anyone else. It is a ridiculous second step that we have to take now… Hopefully they will fix this and it will go back to sending as an attachment like it always did since I bought my first iPhone.

Sorry - doesn't work for me. It just attached the e-mail with the embedded images. I only found two ways worked for me. The first method I used was to accompany the pictures with a VERY short (1-2 second) video. This makes the photos also go as attachments. You then discard the video. Seems mad but it works. Secondly, I have three e-mail addresses. One is on a Microsoft Exchange Server, the second is standard g-mail and finally the iCloud address which I think everyone has?. Sending emails from my iPhone, using the first address, Outlook on my PC shows them in-line (embedded). Using the g-mail or the iCloud address, they are shown as attachments as was the case before iOS 14, when any sending address was used. So I have just changed the default e-mail sending address on my iPhone to g-mail. No idea why!! But problem seems to be solved. I do hope this is helpful.

As many members have reminded us, Apple don't see this Forum. We have alrrady had three updates from iOS14 so I think we can safely assume Apple has no intention of changing anything. They would see it as a retrograde step.

As many members have reminded us, Apple don't see this Forum. We have alrrady had three updates from iOS14 so I think we can safely assume Apple has no intention of changing anything. They would see it as a retrograde step.