Attachments Instead of Embedded Pictures using IOS 14 Mail

Do whatever you wish, DCP1234, but none of that will affect reality.

You must also be a ton of fun at parties.

Pull the stick out.

Meh…

Do you have any formatting, like bold text, in your email signature or in the body of the email? It seems that this changes it from sending a plain text email (with attachment) to a html email with embedded image.

I have a work around. It's not good, but it's better than Outlook for IOS. You can send a text message to an email account. Select the photos like you normally would but use the text app instead of the mail app. If it's only a couple of photos, you'll get the email with the photos as attachments. If it's a lot of photos, it'll upload the photos to ICloud and you'll get the email link to be able to download them. The download is a zip file with all of the photos. It's not perfect, but it works.

The first time I tried this, my work mail server blocked the messages from coming in. They were flag as potential spam. I was able to get my address listed as trusted. the second test came through in no time. All of the text messages you send to an email account will be from the email address "your phone number"@"your carriers id".com.

I hope this helps. If not, we'll need someone to create a bot to submit feedback on this at an annoying rate.

Welcome, cubsfanbudman and @All, to Apple Support Communities!

I see we have another case where the actual problem is in the way Microsoft Outlook disallows you, the user, to perform bulk operations on attachments, such as images (photos), when Outlook renders (displays) the attachments inline (what all too many refer to as “embedded” into the email).

Please do note, no matter how any given email client (such as Outlook) may choose to render (display) an email, all files (images or whatever) are sent as attachments to the email: this is a very old aspect of the Internet email protocols!

Yes. There was some change in either the way Apple Mail defaults in the format used for authoring emails, or in choosing a newer version of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used (or both), which, apparently, has triggered Outlook to change the way it renders (displays) an email.

However, that does not negate the fact that if Microsoft Outlook would allow you, the user, the right to perform bulk attachment operations, regardless of the way Outlook may choose to render (display) an email, this would have never been an issue.

You may certainly provide Feedback to Apple, requesting that they allow you to choose the default formatting of authored emails, so you may choose plain-text as your default.

Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that this will actually solve the problem, since the problem is the way Microsoft Outlook behaves, which Apple has no control over.

(Note: I would not expect Apple to abandon updating to the use of a newer Internet protocol; especially not just because Microsoft hasn’t chosen to update, yet.)

What is guaranteed to solve your problem, however, is to get Microsoft to set Outlook to allow you, the user, the right to perform bulk attachment operations, regardless how Outlook may choose to render any given email!

You may want to send feedback to Apple with a feature request.

Photos for iOS and iPadOS - Feedback - Apple

Here in the user-to-user forums your report might get overlooked by the Apple developers.

Got it! if you download the Outlook App and choose Outlook to send the photo instead of Apples "Mail" the photo will be received as an attachment in Outlook and not embedded.

I have found the definite solution for this. I stopped using the iPhone and went to Android.