Send pictures as attachments and not embedded with iPhone

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.

This has nothing to do with microsoft.

I just tested 3 emails, one from my corporate (office 365), one from gmail, and one from icloud.

I sent the 3 emails to both my office 365 and my gmail accounts.

I sent a single photo, original size.

All 6 of the photos came in as in-line photos instead of attachments.

This is clearly an apple thing. They think it's prettier to have in-line photos instead of attachments, so that's what they do. and while I agree that it is a pretty feature, it's also very annoying if that's not what you want. Basically emailing photos from an iPhone in order to share the photo files is useless. You need to use iCloud sharing, or Dropbox, or photostream or something like that. But if you want to add a photo to an email with a (See photo below:) or with a caption etc. this works great.

(Just for fun, I also used the Outlook app, and they have decided on the same method of image embedding. So no, it's not just apple)

I have the same issue and it is very much dependant on the email account. I'm running an iPhone 6s with iOS 10.3.3.

If I send an image from an account with no signature other than Sent from My iPhone, the images arrive as proper attachments.

If I send the same picture via our Corporate Office 365 account which automatically appends an HTML signature to the end of our emails, the images arrive inline, i.e visible within the body of the email.

A number of users with different versions of iOS say they have experienced different results even though they are all sending through the same Office 365 service with the same appended signature. I would need to check this as I don't think this is the case.

Further to my last reply, I can confirm that emails created using Gmail or Exchange on the iPhone appears to send images inline. Email created using an Outlook.com account sends them as attachments. Whether you have a signature or not does not appear to influence the outcome so it appears the email service can influence the outcome.

Nope, I was responding to @Csound1.

Csound1, are you suggesting that how a photo is sent in an email from my Apple iPhone 7 using Apple's mail app, using Apple's iCloud mail account to Google's Gmail account is Microsoft's doing?

Look, just for fun, I now sent another email from my Apple iPhone 7 using Apple's mail app, using Apple's iCloud mail account to Apple's own iCloud email account and it's doing the same thing... is Microsoft to blame for that too???

Note, on both the iphone and in apple's mail app it does recognize in-line photos as attachments, so there is a little paperclip beside the email for all cases (Even when I send an inline email from outlook to my iphone), but the photo is still in-line for all cases that I've tested. This is a design choice by apple to not allow for regular attachments sent from their devices. It's not necessarily wrong, it's a design choice. I just personally don't like it as I prefer attachments. I'd like to see Apple offer a choices to their customers, but I guess this is another example of how Apple always knows best.

I have iOS 11.2 on a iphone 6. Itès true that you can double click on the embedded picture and the black toolbar appears. For me, when I click on the arrow, there is an option Send as attachment. I'm not sure why it doesn't do that on yours...

Thanks, it did help me too, as soon as I read about the sognature it triggered an alarm as I recently played with it i.e copy/pasted business signature which only partially worked to be honest, images weren’t visible in most cases.

I developed routine of sending myself picture to an email as only then it gives me option to resize and they arrived as attachments which is handy, lately the arrived embeded or whatever else someone called it, which isn’t exactly what I wanted. As another user rightly noticed one having to save as each picture manually...

I wiped out the signature and they arrive as attachments yet again the moment you select photos and sending you see them embedded still but they arrive as attachments uffff.

Make sure you delete your signature property, select all and delete. I guess txt signature is permited, I’m yet to try.

Now, I know I’m going to expose myself here but I will do it anyway, I come from Blackberry World only switched to iPhone just 18months ago, having had brand new 6s in my desk drawer for six months I wouldn’t let my Q10 go, until I dropped it and damaged my screen, it still worked fine and guess what, I was about to order new screen and then I paused tinking it’s now or never!

My adventure with iPhone began, oh boy it was painful, my wife by then iPhone pilgrim was about to stop talking to me as I could couldn’t stop banging on about how pattetic ios is how many things it is missing and so on...

Year and half later I’ve still got ny BB Q10 in my drawer, charging and playing with it every now and again I desperately wish B10 was, I nearly lost my hope. Don’t get me wrong, iPhone works great for what it is, I came to like it, and make use of every bit of it I find usefull, yet I yearn the days when I had BB in my pocket it was the only truely business phone and it’s what I need phone to be a workhorse, office in my pocket, the right size device. I refuse to accept iphone going forward, it has introduced many features BB had all this years ago, however latest software upgrade has so many issues and focuses more and more on consumer needs it will never be proper business device. I’m going to hold to my 6s for as long as it gets as there is nothing to look forward to in newer models.

Apple, will you accept the chellange to build business device, simple, solid machine, sparing us all unnecessary clutter, and make it pocket size please, I think SE is as close to the right size as one can get. Till then I will keep move my 6s from pocket to pocket desperatly trying to find least uncomfortable place.

I know, I’m in the wrong place...

Simple fix: once the picture is embedded in your email, press on the picture for a few seconds and release. A black toolbar will appear above the picture (select/select all/Paste). Press on the arrow at the end of the toolbar and then select Send as attachment.

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.

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!!

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?

I assume by now that this question has been answered, but in case not, here's the simplest solution. Send the photo (to yourself or anyone else) as you normally would. Don't worry about signatures, HTML, or anything else. Then go to you folder of Sent emails, and there you will find a true JPG attachment to your email.

Not sure SnakeDog if your response was to my comment or not. I wasn't saying it was a microsoft thing. I was saying it's apple not willing to work with microsoft software, so to make it clear I am blaming apple for not fixing the issue. Being a long time apple user, I've been very disappointed in apple and there not fixing issues with their product.

I've been using my iphone 6s for a year and sending photos that used to go as attachments, these could be saved easily as jpegs. Now i've updated the same phone to ios 11 it wont send as attachments, only as an embedded image in the email body. Despite selecting "add attachment".
If I open the sent email in outlook I cant save the image, drag it, or anything. It seems it's not a jpeg??