Turn off preview of pdf attachments in Mail
How can I stop Apple Mail showing a preview of pdf attachments in an email? I'm using macOS Sonoma 14.2.1
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.2
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If you are attaching single page PDFs in a Mail compose window, the default is to show the PDF page. You can right-click on that PDF and choose View as Icon. This is on a case-by-case issue.
If you always want file attachments (including PDFs) to appear as icons, then in the Terminal, you can force this to always be the case with the following command — after you quit Apple Mail:
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool true
# confirm it is set: 1 = true, 0 = false
defaults read com.apple.Mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing
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This is working in Sonoma 14.2.1 for me. To disable the feature change the true to false in the write statement.
A future caveat is that Apple may make changes to Mail causing this setting to not work.