Emailing photo attachments from my iPhone 11

VenomInMyVein wrote:

add also another type of file, like a pdf oder something to the mail and it will send the pictures as an attachment.

this is not a solution, but it works as a work-around.

Yes. This is a workaround that modifies the sort of attachment structure, used by the email, is within the more stilted and limited attachment structure the very tiny subset of email clients (consisting of a single email client and its derivatives) actually seems to recognize.

No other email clients have this limitation.

You don’t need to believe me. You can check for yourself by performing the definitive test found in my comment at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251807601?answerId=254806789022#254806789022.

I found a workaround, but take it with a grain of salt.

I asked some friends to send me some test pictures using different OS (Win, Linux, Android) and all came in as attachments except iOS 14.

Solution;

Make a random blank file (pdf, note, 15 sec video) and name it "iOSFluxCapacitor" or "iOSDiscombabulator" ... :-) or whatever you want.

Adding the file with the image (s) will force the email system to attach, not embed, all the files including the image (s).

NOTE: Hope this work for you guys. I know my life is a whole lot better now that I don't have to download each image one at the time, but all at once.

Correct. Their are no Jpegs. However my IT person figures out a trick. If I send the photos from the Outlook icon, they come as Jpegs. I am so relieved.

I’ve kept with this thread for a hot minute. I saw there was a 14.1 IOS update and crossed my fingers that would solve the issue but of course it did not.

However, I found that if you go to your Pictures app, select a picture, go to more options, in the list of apps to choose from you can pick Outlook and that makes the picture an attachment not embedded. (Not sure if you were able to do that before 14.1 or not but this find will help my users at my company for the time being) **Though going to Outlook first and attaching an image from in the app still has it embedded.

I hope Apple will wake up and make an actual fix for this issue all around. It’s ridiculous

I got mine to work

settings

Gmail

Photo

all photos.

It was on Selected photos

The update seemed to change what I had set my iPhone on.

also the phone ring was removed to no ring. Changed that, turned off and on and it stayed.

despite the absolute ridiculousness of this and the BS excuses they are providing, i have found that, like some of these other people, if you attach something else, like a PDF or other document to the email before sending, it then sends them all as an attachment rather than in line. Test it to yourself and see what works. thats the only work around that I've found to work (most) of the time.

This procedure works for me:

In photos on I-phone, I keep a one second video available. I select the 1 second video first and then the photos I want to send. You must select the video first. Then I send the email and the photos appear as attachments the way they did before ios 14 updates.

jhaight wrote:

…

Settings

1. …

I think this changes the file from HEIC to JPG …

Yes. That is what those settings change.

However, it’s not like the HEIC is some proprietary format. It is an International standard. Unfortunately, some software require their users to make additional purchases, in order to work with this newer and superior format.

… and somehow that solved the problem. …

I’m glad this helped solve your particular issues.

Unfortunately, this change is not sufficient for the issues others have been experiencing. (The difference has to do with the email client used at the receiving end.)

… Hope this works for others having this problem.

Thank you for your contribution!

Okay I figured out a fix to this since we can't get a useful response from the Specialists. As a heads up, this was through Outlook, not Gmail, but I am assuming the process would be the same/similar.

1. Open the email with the embedded photos.
2. Click File -> Save As.
3. Choose the folder where you want the photo files to be saved.
4. Change the "Save as type" in the bottom dropdown box from "Outlook Message Format - Unicode" to "HTML".
5. Save file.

There will be a couple of extra random files that won't be used, but a folder with all of the photo files will now appear in the folder you selected to save the email to!

Hope this helps

THAT SOLUTION WORKS, krwakefield! On my iPhone I made a 3 second video that I will attach with my photos when emailing them to myself. The resulting email does have photos show up in my Outlook email account as JPG files. APPLE, PLEASE FIX THIS! WE WANT EMAILS SENT FROM OUR IPHONES TO HAVE PHOTOS AS JPG ATTACHMENTS (NOT EMBEDDED) EVEN IF THERE IS NO VIDEO OR PDF ATTACHED.

I use Gmail by default on my iPhone 7 version 14.4. When I try to attach a photo it ends up embedded inline in the text. But if I tap on the photo I get a 'Send as attachment or Remove' pop-up option. Selecting 'Send as attachment' reduces the photo to an attachment sized mini photo at the bottom of the test page. Problem solved but this only works in Gmail. It doesn't work in Apple's own Mail app!

Have you tried using the Outlook app on iphone? It works for me (thumbnail attachments), while the Apple app does not. I have an outlook email account.

add also another type of file, like a pdf oder something to the mail and it will send the pictures as an attachment.

this is not a solution, but it works as a work-around.

Thank you, iW00.

To @All:

For iOS (and iPadOS), there simply was no change in attachments’ options, since regardless how any particular email client may choose to display (render) any given email, files are always attached to the email: this is a very old part of the email Internet standard, and is highly unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.

The only problems are:

1. An apparent change in the interaction between Apple Mail vs. Microsoft Exchange servers over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP): if the transfer of email uses just about any other route, the “issue” seems to be avoided.
2. An apparent change in the default formatting of authored emails in Apple Mail. However, there has been, absolutely, no change in the way files are attached to such emails.
3. The simple fact that Microsoft Outlook prevents users from performing bulk operations on attachments (such as bulk-saves), purely based upon the way Outlook chooses to format (render) a received email: no other email client seems to have this problem!

The first item, if there was an actual change in the SMTP, it would have only been in accordance with the SMTP Internet standard, which gets updated, now and then, and, unlike Microsoft, Apple, and others, tend to stay current with such standards.

Eventually, Microsoft will “get with the program”, as they usually do, even though they tend to “drag their feet”.

The third item will only be fixed if people properly complain to Microsoft, about how Outlook is improperly interfering in their use of email attachments.

The second item is the only one that y’all may be able to talk Apple into changing: they could provide an option to change the default email authoring format to the (very old and “dying”) plain-text format.

Be aware that the old plain-text email format was going “extinct” even back in the ‘90s!

Likewise, due to the issues with Microsoft software, there is simply no guarantee that such a change will actually solve the Outlook issue. It might, but there’s simply no guarantee.

The single guaranteed solution is for Microsoft to fix Outlook, so it permits you, the user, to perform bulk attachment operations (such as bulk-saves) on any received email, regardless how Outlook chooses to display (render) said email.

(The only affect that the plain-text format has on email attachments, is that there is no way to render [display] email attachments “inline” with the email text, since it cannot contain any formatting, whatsoever.)