Send pictures as attachments and not embedded with iPhone

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...

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.

When will they support iPhone's mail client to compose HTML? I'm very annoying with this 😢

Never.

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.

Tried and not solving the issue of who receives it on a pc platform will have it as embedded!

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.

CONFIRMED!!!

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

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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.

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.

The Outlook tip to save the email as a .htm file really helped; the photo is then added to a separate folder, as a .jpg. Thanks for the tip!