Send pictures as attachments and not embedded with iPhone

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!!

Thank you!!!! I tried this and it works. I removed my signature and then tried email the photos, and they are sent at jpg. AWESOME, thanks again!!!!

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!

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.

I just sent the message to my gmail account where I could save the pic as a .jpg - worked for me!

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?

This is 100% the correct answer.

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.

Just right click on the picture and select: View as Icon.