Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

Lotus9999:

Looking back at what EK-93 wrote, I’m reasonably certain that jeffmcgillis is referring to using the Outlook App on an iPhone.

Of course, I could be wrong! In which case, my reply to jeffmcgillis is off base.

2. Send that email to an account where you can open that email in an email client that allows you to View the Raw Source of that email.

And to add... recognizing there are many variants of "Outlook" in use, the more that contribute, the more the issue can be understood. Outlook is now more a brand name that the name of an actual mail client.

Like... I drive a Ford means little.

Yes, LACAllen.

It’s one of the reasons I often write of “Outlook and its derivatives”.

In addition, I see no reason one should limit the test to the two classes of receiving email clients I mentioned.

The only important part, to this test, is whether the receiving email client can provide the Raw Source of the received email.

The more data the better!

Well, CJCragg, a far better way to judge correctly is to use the test found in my comment at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251807601?answerId=254806789022#254806789022.

In fact, now that we have such a definitive test, I don’t believe we should make claims without backing them up with that test.

Once again, CJCragg, «embedded» vs. «attachments» warrants the definitive test, found at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251807601?answerId=254806789022#254806789022, to see what is actually going on.

Otherwise, one is simply using labels that, at best, only apply to superficialities (appearances).

Is there some reason you are avoiding that definitive test?

If I were you, I would show screenshots of what the appearances were, accompanied by the definitive test, so we can all compare and contrast, and have a better understanding of what is actually going on.

Now I understand why we always receive images embedded in emails at my work. We deal with the public and I just assumed they were all technologically unsavvy. Not being able to attach an image to an email is ridiculous. If this doesn't change I'm going to go back to android.

I'm feeling the same way and am considering switching from the Apple universe to android/PCs.

Right now, everything is Apple for me - phone, ipad & MacBook Pro.

I was already extremely annoyed with MacBook Pros only offering two or four ports on new models. So, the change with the iphone IOS just adds to my frustrations/anger at Apple.

CJCragg wrote:

What is is name, position and phone number?

Are you asking about madisonNYC‘s claim that «An Apple senior manager confirmed this[Apple made a change in IOS 14 to stop people from being able to send pics as attachments when you use Apple's mail. Period.] to [madisonNYC]»?

Yes. I’m most interested as well.

madisonNYC wrote:

Apple decided to make this change in IOS 14 that stops people from being able to send photos as attachments. …

…

However, as you can easily check, using the definitive test, found at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251807601?answerId=254806789022#254806789022, to see what is actually going on; y’all can verify that the «photos» are always «attachments».

ahungryhungarian wrote:

You keep copy/paste spamming this “*<definitive test>*” but instead why not just do it yourself and post the results.

While I have a couple of iPads, running iPadOS 14.4.1, I do not have an iPhone—which is what seems to be used by most experiencing this issue.

Additionally, I have not used Outlook (or its derivatives) for over six (6) years, and certainly have no email accounts that use Exchange servers.

So. While I think my test results are valid indicators of what is actually going on—since I don’t expect the iPadOS version of Mail to differ at the email composition level, and I don’t expect the emails to be modified in the process of being read by a macOS version of Mail—I can imagine some people not wanting to accept such results.

Hence, I believe the results will be far more readily accepted if they are generated by the affected community—most especially if we can obtain Raw Sources from Outlook, by Outlook users.

Could you help us with that, ahungryhungarian?

Why, why why! It has just taken me a good 5 minutes to email 5 images from my phone and save in the right place. THis would have been 30 seconds before the images can on ly be sent embedded in the mail. PLEASE allow either a choice, or go back to attachments, so when I am back at my PC I can save where I want!

There are no browsers present, this is the iOS Mail app and the Gmail app for comparison. You seem to be confused about the issue that people are describing. Not a single person cares about how the backend works, the thread would like the APPEARANCES on the iOS mail app changed back to how they were before, like the Gmail app still currently has.

You seem confused again, this is the *Apple* support community, and the thread is referring to *Apple* Mail App. To chose a different mail app isn’t the point of the thread. People here are discussing the change of appearance which affects the functionality in the *APPLE MAIL APP*.

Actually, ahungryhungarian, the functionality of the Apple Mail email client remains unchanged by the change in appearances. (Modulo the appearance itself, of course.)

The same is true for very nearly all other email clients one may use to read the received email, composed on Apple Mail: all except a very tiny subset of email clients which disallow users to perform bulk attachment operations (such as bulk-saves) based upon some internal “logic” within such email clients.

Such is the only functionality issue anyone has reported, so far, in the many months that this issue has been discussed.

Actually, you are mistaken again. Appearance and functionality go hand in hand on any system that uses touch as an interface. If it looks different, then the fact that you are touching different things means the experience and process of using it is different. This is an Apple issue, with an Apple product, you are confused again sadly!