Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

I just found a solution for this FINALLY. For me , I add a short video to the image I'm sending, then they automatically are all sent as an attachment. Not super convenient but it works. Hope this works for you as well!

Sorry - this solution has been around for a long time.

For me the easiest solution is to use a g-mail account as the default sending account on your iPhone and the receiving account on your PC or other device. The attachments are then displayed as attachments and not, (as we luddites say), "embedded". If the receiving account is Outlook, or any other MS derivative, the attachments will be displayed as "embedded".

I have exact the same problem since i use iOS 14 and it is totally frustrating an i "downgrade" in my opinion. And in my opinion an update should be an improvement. I need this feature a lot for my daily work and anyway sending an email as plain text in 2020/2021 is a disgrace. Considering that apple always advertise with their innovation.

Frustrastedphototaker described adding a really short video to keep th photos as attachments.

This did not work as described. When I select from photos, if I pick a video and any photo, it takes away the email option. How frustrating!

However, if I start an email, I can add photos and the short video. In that case, they all stay as attachments. This is better than the embedded photos, so thank you.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you touch the photo while in the photos app you can select copy, share, delete … select Share and the. Select your email app and it will send as an attachment rather than embedded. Not perfect but it works.

cliu1185 wrote:

It's painful and I have not yet found a solution with Apple. This pushed me to try Google photos and do it there with my PC.

The (email) solution will only truly come by getting that very tiny subset of email clients (consisting of a single client [Outlook] and its derivatives) to correct their handling of International Internet Standards compliant attachments, such as photos/images.

An even better approach is to use tools that are better suited than email.

[SOLUTION]

Created an account just because this gave me the biggest headache.

You can send photos as attachments if you have the outlook app installed and signed in.

Just need to go to settings > Camera > Formats and change the format to "Most Compatible"

Then when you go to share photos from the Gallery just send them with Outlook (instead of Mail) and it adds it as at attachment.

Enjoy!

Minashiro wrote:

Same issue here, it boggles my mind that there’s still no easy solution for it. Will leave my “feedback” to Apple and look for suitable workaround.

Sounds Good, though not complete: You should also provide Feedback to the creator of the very tiny subset of email clients (consisting of a single client and its derivatives, all from Microsoft) that prevent users from performing bulk attachment operations (such as bulk-saves) on perfectly standards compliant emails, for reasons known only to the developers.

No other email clients have this issue.

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.

hgrit wrote:

Either way, complain away here!

I’ve got a better idea. Travel to the Grand Canyon. Should your complaint into the canyon. That will be at least as effective as posting anything here. Because the problem is not on Apple’s end, it is on Microsoft’s. Apple has no control over how Microsoft’s mail products deal with image attachments. And yes, ALL photos sent by Apple Mail are sent as attachments. It’s Outlook that refuses to let your access those attachments. Pretty much every other mail client in the world lets you download the attached photos.