Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

Agreed. This needs fixing. Bloody hopeless attaching pictures to emails now. I want them attached as images always, not embedded into he email. When sending large quantities of pictures so someone they want to be able to save all in Outlook to download the pictures. Not have the right click and save as each image and then give it a name.

Could not agree more that this is ludicrous. However, there is a workaround which allows one or many photos to be added as attachments, not embedded images. Create a folder for the photo(s) and send the folder as the attachment. The receiver just has to click on the folder and it will open with the photo(s) shown as individual files. Works with PCs and Apple products.

Why Apple should ever have conceived the idea that any image should be embedded is beyond any form of sanity.

We are not all pre-teens sending each other silly photos. People who work have not got time to sort out ways to use what is supposedly a user-friendly system. WAKE UP APPLE! FIX THIS OR MY AND PROBABLY THOUSANDS OF MACs AND IPHONES GO IN THE JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I honestly don’t get it. The value of your posts in this thread (yes, I’ve read all of it previously) have been consistently in the negative: instead of trying to help people out, or giving just useless advice that doesn’t work, you actively derail the conversation into completely unrelated direction. Guess I’ll never understand why people get a kick out of such behavior.

Welcome, Minashiro, to Apple Support Communities!

All potential workarounds and reporting recommendations have been provided, that can be provided.

The only true (and lasting) fix is for the programmers of the very tiny subset of email clients (consisting of a single email client and its derivatives) to correct the erroneous handling of International Internet Standards compliant received emails.

I have even provided the means for people to check the standards compliance of any received email.

Continuing to complain, here, is worse than useless.

My only satisfaction is in sharing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, to the very best of my ability.

(As a result, I quickly change what I present as my understanding and knowledge may change. However, nothing has changed over the past several months.)

Sadly, the mail app is not shown for feedback on iOS and iPadOS Apps. Only if you have their macOS Apps. My assumption is people must of been complaining if the app just isn't there to complain about. Thoughts? Maybe it was never there to begin with. Either way, complain away here!

Same here. We only supply apple phones since their simple. Right now, a lot of them are not happy about the unproductive activities they have to do a work around when it takes longer to just send a dang attachment.

Lawrence, are you sure this is an issue with Microsoft?

One of my users only had this issue after upgrading from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone SE.

With the 6 he could send photos as attachments with the Mail app no problems...

Apple, please fix this. It is very annoying to force all picture attatchments to be embedded in an email rather than attached. Often the reason people email pictures to others or themselves is to quickly get the file for another purpose, not just to view it. For example, I have a requirement from work to attach pictures of my receipts when filing expense reports. I take a photo, then I email it to my work laptop. Then I drag and drop the image into my expense report. With embedded pictures, I have to save each file one at a time to a folder first. It's slow and annoying. Please get the option in our settings to choose if we want to embed or attach images. Thanks

sunnyone47 wrote:

Truly ridiculous that it requires this much effort.

Agree. Imagine if only GMail and Microsoft (if you use Outlook app) would implement an option to simply download the attachments like you have it in Mail app on iPhone and macOS. They will make life much easier for many people including your* too.

I guess all it’s left is to send Google and Microsoft a feedback to implement better support for handling attachments.

*I’m judging based on the experience you have described.

sunnyone47 wrote:

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

Since Apple is not Microsoft’s customer, why would Microsoft listen?

(I’m not a Microsoft customer, either.)

Is it truly so much to ask of customers to deal with the manufacturers of the software they use?

Agreed that we should also be complaining to Microsoft. But it is in both Apple's and Microsoft's interests to get this fixed. If my experience with my iPhone is unsatisfactory due to Microsoft, it's still a problem for Apple, even if it's not their fault. And given how big these two players are in the overall tech ecosystem, they should not require the petition of thousands of unhappy people to get this fixed. My guess is that someone at Apple has a better chance of getting Microsoft's attention than I do.

And I wonder if it's really a only "very tiny subset" of email users affected by this. I use a standard and completely updated desktop installation of Microsoft Outlook. Seems like that would affect a huge number of users. Is my installation somehow unusual?

sunnyone47 wrote:

Agreed that we should also be complaining to Microsoft. But it is in both Apple's and Microsoft's interests to get this fixed. If my experience with my iPhone is unsatisfactory due to Microsoft, it's still a problem for Apple, even if it's not their fault. And given how big these two players are in the overall tech ecosystem, they should not require the petition of thousands of unhappy people to get this fixed. My guess is that someone at Apple has a better chance of getting Microsoft's attention than I do.

Maybe, but Apple isn’t here. It’s just us, your fellow users.

And I wonder if it's really a only "very tiny subset" of email users affected by this. I use a standard and completely updated desktop installation of Microsoft Outlook. Seems like that would affect a huge number of users. Is my installation somehow unusual?

I never said it’s a «”very tiny subset" of email users affected by this.»

What it is is a very tiny subset of email clients (consisting of a single email client and its derivatives).

Additionally, it appears that Microsoft hasn’t updated the email attachment handling of Outlook (nor its derivatives) since sometime before 2010.

It sure seems like it’s long past time for them to get up to date.

Just emailed himself asking that they update their email client to 21st century. Will see if they respond.

You're suggesting that Apple doesn't monitor these communities threads to see what's bothering their customers? In that case, I need to email Tim Cook, too, to ask him to give Satya a call and get this straightened out.

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sunnyone47 wrote:

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You're suggesting that Apple doesn't monitor these communities threads to see what's bothering their customers? …

The appropriate way to provide product Feedback to Apple is by way of their designated Feedback mechanisms, such as their Feedback pages at Product Feedback - Apple.

randy-in-DC:

Congratulations! You are the first person, here, that has dared to show the Attachment structure of an email (presumably, from an email sent using Apple Mail, on some Apple device)!

The dividers you show suggest that there are more parts of the email you’re are showing.

Note: while you haven’t shown the entire email structure (we certainly don’t need to see the entire Base64 encoding of the encoded images), you will find out, if you check, that the entire structure is completely standards compliant.

However, I do have additional questions concerning the problem you seem to have with an email received «in Yahoo web-mail [accessed] using a Chrome browser»: Are you claiming that viewing such an email doesn’t show your received photos, even in cases with multiple photos or even a single photo?

Does the «Yahoo web-mail [client, accessed] using a Chrome browser», provide any means for bulk attachment operations (such as bulk-saves)?

If so, what happens when you try such?