Since the ios14 update when I now email photos from my iPhone using either my work outlook or personal GMAIL addresses they are now sent embedded in the email message and not as jpeg attachments to the email. Why is this and how do I fix it or what settings can be changed, if any?
Lotus9999 wrote:
There's a similar thread also, which has double the number of pages of this one:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251807601
There only seems to be 2 solutions to it:
ONE: I've done some testing now Sending pictures using Outlook app, and here are my findings:
1 - If you start in the Outlook app and attach pictures, they will still show up EMBEDDED. …
Actually, just as with Apple Mail, I expect that they are just as much attachments! (I wouldn’t be inclined to think otherwise, unless such was demonstrated to be otherwise upon inspecting the Raw email text.)
However, this does seem to demonstrate that Outlook, as well, is able to format emails as rich-text (text/html, actually). (When I worked within the corporate/governmental sectors, I would only send emails as plain-text if the other party had requested such, or I was replying to a plain-text email.)
I suspect, however, that if you sent this email to an email address where you use Outlook to read the email, that Outlook would allow you to perform bulk attachment operations (such as bulk-saves).
If not, I would actually be surprised! However, in that case y’all could use that as the best leverage to have Microsoft (at least partially) fix Outlook, and its derivatives.
… 2 - However, if you start in Photos (as others I believe have indicated), then choose the method to share as the Outlook app, they DO in fact show up as attachments! And there's no need to attach a 1 second video...
Yes. This should surprise no one.
Of course, as always, the real test is not in the appearances, but in the functionality: does Outlook (or another email client) allow you to perform bulk attachment operations (such as bulk-saves)?
… The only downside is that unlike when sending pictures by Mail, where you get the option to choose the size of the photo (S/M/L/Original), there are no options and they are sent as full-size by default.
Meh …
… Based on this solution, perhaps any other third-party app on the iPhone can be used with similar results, and not just the Outlook app. …
Make sure y’all don’t get caught up in the appearance, but pay attention to the functionality: does Outlook (or another email client) allow you to perform bulk attachment operations (such as bulk-saves), regardless of appearance?
… TWO: The other one allows you to still use the default Mail app, and by attaching a different file (such as a 1 second video), it forces it to send all of the pictures as attachments also.
As always, «the pictures» are sent «as attachments», always.
The only potential differences are:
Hi, yes when I email a photo from my iPhone which is often for work, it does give me a size option to choose before sending and I normally choose the mid size. It does not give me any other options though such as to choose if embedded or attached to an email. I have had an iPhone since the beginning, iPhone 3 and I have not ever had this issue before, photos were always sent as attachments to the email which is what you would expect. I don’t quite know who would ever actually want photos sent embedded in an email. This issue has only occurred now since the iOS14 update so please ask the powers to be to fix. Everyone is telling me to change to Samsung which I’d just rather not do. Thanks.
Hello deane160,
Thank you for providing those details. This is expected when attaching a photo to an email. We do appreciate all feedback regarding our products, features, and services. If you'd like to provide feedback about the Mail application you can do so through our Product Feedback website.
Take care!
Your answer: "This is expected when attaching a photo to an email" is not definitive.
Please answer this question:
Will my Iphone attach a PDF attachment from the photo app as it has done in the past?
Is the answer yes or is the answer no?
Hi Less
this reply is absolutely ridiculous, I have been sending photos as attachments to myself to make them smaller to attach to reports, I have never had to save each photo individually and rename them when saving, if the photos were sent as attachments rather than this update causing them to embed into the email none of us would be complaining, it was fine until this update to ios14 so I guess the tech team can easily revert this back so we can all send photos as individual attachments not embedment.
regards
SprakeyG
I am having the same issue and need my photos sent at attachments so I can use them for work reports. The responses to this question are unbelievably useless. It is not "expected" when it didn't happen before the update to iOS14. There has to be a fix to this... This is extremely inconvenient
Hey Less from Apple, are you still there or are you now choosing just to ignore this thread??
It’s a simple question and I would have thought a simple solution to fix something that wasn’t actually broken in the 1st place until the latest update was sent out. Please respond to all of us and not with the pc crap replies that you’ve given us so far. Don’t make me change to Samsung now! Thanks in advance. Cheers
Jeff_W
"We do appreciate all feedback regarding our products, features, and services." I don't believe you. If you did appreciate feedback regarding your products, you would give something besides BS answers.
Totally agree Vicky, I just don’t get why they think photos embedded into the email message is ok?! It would seem as though this is a too hard basket fix for them as other than the pathetic bs replies I got from the Apple people a couple of weeks ago, I’ve have had no response since.
Hi, that doesn’t work for me and in any case is a long protracted way of doing it and loses the original file names of the jpgs/pdfs etc and all the metadata.
This is a ruinious change they have made to the IOS and it makes my modus operandi with the apple pen and iPad Pro for marking up designs completely redundant.
the genius above from apple needs to drop the “have a great day” rubbish and immediately get this sorted out so we can use the mail with normal attachments as before.
We are faced with the usual apple arrogance and rubbish by the look of it.
Ive nearly completed my move away from this company with a serious investment in a dell machine and google pictures, the last three machines of this company I am currently stuck with are the iPad and the apple pen and iPhone, and once I’m away...never again.
It would seem Apple don’t give a **** about basic errors that they have caused with their latest update. Too busy trying to make more money selling the latest iPhones to new customers that they forget or ignore loyal customers like myself who have had an iPhone since the very beginning!! Great customer service Apple!
Put a request in feedback??? I did that a month ago and all I’ve got since from any Apple rep in this thread is a couple of ******** fairy replies that have solved absolutely nothing. Surely there is a fix for it that can be included into the next update?!!
This rep insisted that its “expected behaviour” and there is no fix. She did at one point suggest I look into third party apps which might provide it for me!!! She also said they were not working on a fix. She also blamed email servers for not accepting the attachments as attachments and tried to suggest it wasn’t Apple mail embedding them it was the servers. When put right on that she backed down and stopped blaming the email servers.
her final parting shot was to suggest yet again I post a feedback request and that she has kindly also done one on my behalf!
Hopefully a fix will be coming for this soon. I wish I had of seen this discussion before updating this morning. I can’t have huge pictures embedded into an email for work. Come on Apple. Get it together
Thanks for the reply. Actually I was just fed up and slightly adding to the pile on. Fed up because I have been experiencing a problem attaching photos to emails at all in the gmail app for a few weeks and it has now got worse under ios14 which I spent a few hours downloading this week - partly as an attempt to solve this problem and general slowness issues. The ios14 has not solved it, and then I saw Apple promising that ios14.1 might fix the bug, but it hasn’t.
Should I switch to the Apple mail app? Maybe, but I shouldn’t have to. And, before you ask, my gmail has full acces to my photos.
Is the Apple photo app that is the problem? Who knows!
iPhones are meant to be way to use but this is a REAL pain. Makes me want to switch away from Apple.
OhMiWord wrote:
I have been experiencing a problem attaching photos to emails at all in the gmail app
I don’t use Gmail app. If you have an issue with the Gmail app that is for Google to resolve (it’s their app), not Apple.
Emailing photo attachments from my iPhone 11
