Send pictures as attachments and not embedded with iPhone

When I send a photo it becomes embedded in the message. When recipient opens the message there is no attachment just the photo in the body of the email. is there a way to make the photo an attachment so it can be saved when opened with outlook or another email program?

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on Jun 22, 2013 5:59 PM

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Posted on Aug 12, 2013 9:51 AM

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.

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Oct 17, 2017 8:28 AM in response to iamspartacus23

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.

Nov 16, 2017 2:59 AM in response to Csound1

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??

Nov 19, 2017 12:11 PM in response to bnb2235

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...

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