Email photo as attachment, not embedded, in iOS 14

Kajin911 wrote:

Save a small text document in files, when you want to send

photos as attachments select the small text file under files first then select

your photos they will send as attachments and the text file can just be

disregarded by the recipient. Workaround but it works and only takes a second

to do...

This doesn’t actually change the fact that photos are sent as attachments—as they always are—but does make a change in the optional “features” of said attachments.

The change in these optional features may have unduly significant affects upon non-standards compliant email clients.

There is no “technical” solution because Apple doesn’t think there’s a problem. However, if you attach a document along with your photo, both attachments are available in the usual manner. You cannot make up things like this, in fiction it would be rejected as too far fetched. And yet, here we are.

If you download the Outlook App and use IT instead of the native iOS Mail app, the photos will be sent to your Outlook email (or Office365) as attachments rather than as embedded photos.

SOLUTION

If you download the outlook app on your phone, when you send a photo(s) from your phone, send it via the outlook app instead of apple mail. It will send it as an attachment!

:)

The work around I’ve found is using a 3rd party email app. I use Outlook and it attaches like old times.

Found a workaround. Attach a misc PDF file along with your photos. This forces everything to be attached and not embedded.

Delete your e-mail signature - that will solve the problem!!! No more workarounds required. If your signature box is blank, put some text in and delete it. That's what I had to do.

"A workaround is to take a very short video then include that in the email. It makes all the photos become attachments rather then embedding them."

You then discard the video! Bit daft but it works.

It may help, davewhitte, to read my response to N-K-O’s comment, at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251807601?answerId=254616832022#254616832022

My suggestion is to stop using the Apple mail app. I switched to the gmail app and I have a choice. I can send my photos as attachments or embedded. Much better answer to this ridiculous dilemma

TarHeelTech wrote:

@Halliday - Do you recall how sending an email with a single picture “attachment” using the native built-in Mail app would show up in Outlook prior to v14 of iOS? If it came as an “attachment” then, but doesn’t now, then the cause of the issue was the upgrade to iOS 14. If that was, indeed, the case, then please explain to my how an upgrade to iOS can somehow be blamed on Microsoft. I want to understand, but after 44 pages in this thread, I am still scratching my head. As always, thanks for your time participating in this lively discussion!

What has been found, through a great deal of testing, are:

1. Regardless what changes were made in Apple Mail, in transitioning to iOS 14, and beyond, the attached files/images/photos/pictures/etc. are still attachments, as they have always been, and as the Official Internet Protocol Standards dictate they must be.
2. As N-K-O found, Outlook (and its derivatives) seem to not understand certain Content-Type designations of attachments. (This is probably only one of many issues with this very tiny subset of email clients.)
3. This “attachment” issues has happened before, with previous versions of iOS, over many years: always with only Outlook (and its derivatives) having a problem.
4. Every single non-Outlook derived email client has no trouble recognizing the attachments in Apple Mail created emails.
5. Even Outlook gets it right if the user saves the Apple Mail created email as HTML.
6. Using the definitive test, found at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251807601?answerId=254806789022#254806789022, to see what is actually going on; anyone and everyone can verify that the files/images/photos/pictures/etc. are always attachments.

So. Why did things break in Outlook, even though Outlook didn’t change, but something changed in some other email authoring software?

Because Outlook has inherent flaws that have remained unaddressed over many years. It’s as if its creators think all the World should adjust for them, rather than adhering to the Official Internet Protocol Standards, as everyone else seems to be doing.

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Been trying a few things since some people were insisting that how the images display is dependent on what is used to open it.

I've got 2 iphones.

iPhone XS, iOS 14.2

iPhone 5S, iOS 12.4.8

Both have the same hotmail account setup in the default mail app.

I sent the same 10 photos from both phones to be received in a gmail account that I open on PC.

The images sent from the XS, display in the the email body. If I wanted to save them, I'd have to right click and save each one individually (or save the entire page and go through the accompanying folder--besides the point).

The images sent from the 5S, display as thumbnails with an option to one click download all.

This leads me to think that it isn't how the opening app handles it but how it's sent via iOS' default mail app.

I cannot believe that this is the first they have heard of it. I have reported it to them anyway. 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 two e-mail addresses. One is on a Microsoft Exchange Server and the other is standard g-mail. Sending emails from my iPhone, using the first address, Outlook on my PC shows them in-line (embedded). Using the g-mail address, they are shown as attachments as was the case before iOS 14, when either 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.

Same, same. We take a lot of site pics every day. (Rosemount Kitchens) We use office 365 so the issue comes down to two points. Previously iOS mail would allow you to select a pic have it arrive as an attachment and also allow you to select the file size. We don’t need to have full size pics as we only view them on screen or compile them into PDF files. I’ve tried using outlook but it doesn’t allow the change of file size.

The only App that does is Spark. Not advertising, just need to get the job done.

sorry about that. I think someone else mentioned it above. What I’m saying is that this image issue had been going on for years. One of the prior fixes was to remove all html from your signature. When you removed all html from the signature the emailed images would not as we say “embed”