Send pictures as attachments and not embedded with iPhone

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but fsilvestris's post about changing the signature is right on.

If your signature has a clickable link (including an email address), it will default the image to in-line rather than attached.

Simply remove any web addresses and emails from your signature and the image will be sent as an attachment.

Edit: Necro-ing this post because there is very little correct/useful info about this online. So anyone who has this problem has SOME confirmation of a fix.

OMG -- this is the answer to my prayers.

I send a lot of pictures as documentation and need them to come through as attachments not inline images.

My signature is only plain text to avoid the "turn attached images into inline photos" problem, *but* apparently when I updated to iOS 8.3, it looks like my signature got converted to HTML. So the fix was simple, delete the existing signature text and re-enter it again.

Moral of the story:

If you want images to appear as INLINE images, include HTML

If you want images to be ATTACHMENTS, do not include HTML in your message or signature.

Hi there

just wanted to say thanks for the info. I tried your suggestion and it worked perfectly. It does get annoying when you cant get this to work and on android phones it works like a charm.

thanks for the help.

I have to concur with J145. I just sent a picture (open picture in Photos, click share, enter email address, click send) from my business iPhone iOS 7 (Lotus email) to my personal email (IMAP account forwarded to my Gmail account) and it was received as an attachment.

Then I sent a picture from my business iPad iOS 7 to the same personal email address above and it was received inline.

All settings and signatures (typed signatures but the phone/fax numbers are hyperlinks) are identical on iPhone and iPad.

Come to think of it, when I sent the picture from my iPhone, it asked me what size file I would like to send. This did not happen when I sent the picture from my iPad.

Any new ideas?

Hello -

We are having the same problem when sending photos with Gmail on the iPhone. This just happened suddenly. The photos used to send (and be received) as attachments. Now they only come through embedded/inline. No signature is being used (just the text "sent from my iPhone").

Is "sent from my iPhone" considered a "signature"?

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. We have techs in the field sending in photos throughout the day and it is now very time consuming to print their photos.

Thank you for your time!

Hi,

i had the same problem sending Pictures as attachment using IPhone 6s IOS 10.0.2.

I solved it with the help of the Information of Nuka Kola.

How? go to -> Settings -> Mail -> Signatur then delete your Signatur and even Pictures if you have some in your signature. Then type in all the text as letters and numbers by hand. The most important thing is: Do not integrate Hyperlinks and Pictures in the "IOS Mail signature" on your phone!

After i made the changes i tried sending and now it works!

Thank you!

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Hallo,
Ich hatte das selbe Problem beim versenden von Bildern/Fotos als Anlage mit IPhone 6s IOS 10.0.2.

Wie? Öffne am IPhone ->Einstellungen -> Mail -> Signatur dann löschst du deine Signatur(Bilder und Texte). Danach gibst du die Signatur als Text(Buchstaben und Zahlen) von Hand ein.
Das Wichtigste ist: Verwenden Sie keine Hyperlinks und Bilder in der "IOS Mail-Signatur" auf Ihrem Handy!

Nachdem ich die Änderungen durchführte habe ich es noch mal getestet!
Nun funktioniert das Senden von BIldern als Anhang auch auf meinem IPhone 6s wieder.

Vielen Dank!
LG Matthias

For whatever reason it didn't work for me. I don't see signature options in gmail settings other than on or off, but both send the picture embedded. The save as html in Outlook trick described below did work.

I have the same problem, I used to just send pictures as attachments so why have they started to embed?

I dont use a signature and this never happened before. Why can't apple provide solutions instead of us having to relay on each other?

I have the same problem. I called the support desk, spoke to Senior Support Technician, spent 45 minutes on the phone explain the issue and at the end they blamed Microsoft. I showed how it attached images to email on my IPhone 6 and 6 Plus and how IPhone 7 didn't supported. Still no resolution. If they are unable to find a resolution, will consider switching to Android OS.

Strange, I just deleted my signature and it's not working for me.

I tried to send the image as original size, and to send it form the mail app, or from the photos app but nothing worked. It always embeds the photo instead of an attachment.

What model of the iPhone do you have? @vdarias seems to suggest it's an iPhone 7 thing that it now only does HTML emails?

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.

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.

I finally got mine to work by entering signitures manaully (Not using the copy and past feature). I hope apple is reading this. The reason why they don't fix it is because THEY ARE LAZY!!!! They also don't care how things work with Microsoft products. Hey why make your product work well for your customers though, even though they may be using microsoft.

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)