Stop Embedding attachments

Send attachments to Windows users in Mail on Mac

Try these suggestions for sending email attachments to Windows users.

• To send Windows-friendly attachments for all messages, choose Edit > Attachments, then select Always Send Windows-Friendly Attachments.
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• To send Windows-friendly attachments for a single message, click the Attachment button  in the toolbar of the new message window, then select Send Windows-Friendly Attachments (if the checkbox isn’t shown, click Options).
• Send documents as PDFs instead of in their original format.

The Mail app may handle attachments differently than other mail clients, but it can be managed.

Single-page attachments default to the "View in place" status. You can change that to "View as Icon" by right-clicking the attachment and selecting "View as Icon" from the pop-up menu.

Multi-page attachments default to the "View as Icon" status. If you wish, that can also be changed by using the same method.

I do not know how to change the default behavior for this, but to me it's a minor inconvenience.

You can leave product feedback or submit a request for features consideration in macOS or iOS or if you have other concerns, you can use this link:

Product Feedback - Apple

D.I. Johnson wrote:

Single-page attachments default to the "View in place" status. You can change that to "View as Icon" by right-clicking the attachment and selecting "View as Icon" from the pop-up menu.

Multi-page attachments default to the "View as Icon" status. If you wish, that can also be changed by using the same method.

FWIW, "View as Icon" only changes what you see when composing an email. Not what the recipient sees.

FWIW, if you don't care for the way Mail works with attachments, you can certainly use a different email client.

dialabrain wrote:

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FWIW, "View as Icon" only changes what you see when composing an email. Not what the recipient sees.

Yes, true that. 👍🏽