Send pictures as attachments and not embedded with iPhone

I've read this entire conversation and changing or deleting my signature, whether in the email itself or in mail settings, doesn't make a difference - images are still in the body of the email. They were always attachments in my previous iPhone. Yes, i know in outlook I can right click each pic and "save as," but I used to just right click and "save all attachments," so it now takes 5 times longer.

I think my issue is a little different. When sending from the photo's by selecting all I want to send and selecting Mail they show up as embedded instead of separate attached files. What do I need to change?

My findings are that how the picture is sent is relatively simple. If you have a signature which is html (most likely created by copy and paste), the picture is embedded into the mail. If your signature is plain text (or you have no signature at all) the picture is attached.

How I tested...

I sent pictures while I have no signature. The picture is attached.

I type a signature manually. The picture and the signature are attached.

I create a signature by copy and paste (signature copied from another mail, or from notes) and now when I send a picture, it is inline aong with the html signature.

CONFIRMED!!!

This is exactly what happens. I tested and now am sane again.

bnb2235

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Re: Send pictures as attachments and not embedded with iPhone

Aug 12, 2013 9:51 AM (in response to J145)

My findings are that how the picture is sent is relatively simple. If you have a signature which is html (most likely created by copy and paste), the picture is embedded into the mail. If your signature is plain text (or you have no signature at all) the picture is attached.

How I tested...

I sent pictures while I have no signature. The picture is attached.

I type a signature manually. The picture and the signature are attached.

I create a signature by copy and paste (signature copied from another mail, or from notes) and now when I send a picture, it is inline aong with the html signature.

I believe this provides a solution, but from my tests it is not necessary to modify the signature. My problem was that I wanted to include embedded images in my email and non-iOS email readers were receiving the images as attachments. By default, iOS seems to send mail as plain text (as has been stated) and images are therefore sent as attachments rather than being embedded in the text of the mail.

I tried the approach suggested by bnb2235 and found that it works. I copied and pasted a random piece of HTML text from a web page viewed in Safari and into my email signature on my iPhone 6. After this, images included in my mail were embedded in the text of email sent from my iPhone when viewed in my Outlook mail reader on Windows.

But I then found that it is not necessary to modify the signature at all. All that is needed is to alter the font of any text that is included in the body of the email (e.g., long press on the text and change the font to italics or bold). It seems that this causes the iOS mailer to convert the email format to HTML which enables it to embed the images in the body of the email. After doing this, the images were embedded as I wanted. Of course, using HTML in your signature will also have this effect and helps to automate the process, but it is not necessary.

Thanks to all for helping find a solution to this problem!

Since the iPhone's Mail app does not support composing email in HTML, not possible to embed anything.

Photo/image attachments are sent as true attachments with the email.

All photo or image attachments are sent as inline or viewed in place within the body of the email, which is not the same as embedded. How a photo or image attachment appears at the recipient's end depends on the email client being used by the recipient, which the sender has no control over.

Both are sending the photos as attachments. An inline or viewed in place photo attachment is sent as a true attachment with the email. There is no other way to send a photo with an email, and there is no setting available that enables or changes this.

When attaching a photo to an email with one iPhone, the photo attachment is not shown as inline or viewed in place within the body of the email before sending the email, and the same after sending the email when viewing the sent email in the account's Sent mailbox? Or are you referring to how it appears by the recipient only?

Both iPhones are sending the photo attachments the same way since there is only one way for the iPhone's Mail app to do so - as inline or viewed in place within the body of the email and as true attachments to the email.

I share your frustration.

However, if you are trying to save an embeded image in Outlook mail, you can do this:

Another workaround is to save the message as HTML, which will produce a folder for resources, one of which is your image.

A sincere THANK YOU for clarifying. Many of us have used the word embed unwittingly referencing HTLM code. The knowledge gap makes it hard for us to communicate the issue. Calling this out even if there is no solution helps progress.

Yes! This solved my problem! My signature used to have phone numbers that were links (when sent, the recepient would see %20 instead of spaces). I went into the settings and erased the links and typed in the numbers by hand. Tried resending and it works! They are coming through as attachements now (as does the signature, unfortunately). Thank you!

Easiest way is to open email put mouse on picture right click choose copy then open paint and choose edit function then paste into paint choose file save as and then it is a file you can do what you want with it

Sorry for my poor english...

I Love it when people try to explain something and they din't know what they are talking about!!

I Had the same problem and many post explained how to same the embedded picture (copy paste in paint, than save as...)

So the problem was there and had nothing to do with the recipient mail apps. When you read the OP it is explained that one phone is doing it and not the other one....

I had the same problem... And it was the signature that cause the problem, I use copy/paste from my office signature... Tested with the same phone using my hotmail account with a regular signature and it worked.

thanks to someone else in this forum that found the solution to this problem!!