Can't open PDF email attachments from mail app. (iOS7, iPad2)

Amazingly annoying!!! Huge bug! I work with PDFs all the time. Is there any way around it at all?

I use "PDF-notes" this works very well.

Are you trolling???? Not funny. Really.

Am I trolling? No I'm not.

In iBooks the edit PDF function is not there, I open the same file in the PDF program I use and I can edit it no problem.

If you have issues with people helping others out then leave. People need to edit a PDF, this is a option if they choose to use it.

Well... I solved it.

Not sure how, though.

I downloaded ADOBE READER for free and paid 3.99 for another app called TOP. Not sure which one did the trick, but it is working now, and I am opening and storing my PDFs just like before

I have tried downloading adobe, downloaded two pdf files including the top one suggested and still no luck.

Help! I can work around with phone to drop box but terribly inconvenient. Some in my company have no issues, some do?

I have the same issue, worked fine until I upgraded to ios7.

Hi there

I had the same problem

After deleting one app called Sign It,

Leave for 15 min

Reboot

My Mail went back to normal and I can open PDF as normal (Open in came back!)

Good luck!

I work in a support organization and we've seen variations of this issue develop on various iphones and ipads with ios7. Oddly, not everyone is experiencing this, just some people.

In my own case, I simply downloaded Acrobat Reader for free and can read the things fine.

We use an exchange activesync email server and when each email comes in it indicates at the very bottom that it has been downloaded as plain text and to click to download the entire message. I've tried clicking to download and not clicking and I can read the PDF either way.

In my own case I can view PDF files and/or also save them by pressing and holding the icon of the PDF in the email.

The other thing one of our end users noticed: if she emailed the PDF directly to her iPhone5 and iPad it would not be readable but if she forwarded it to her offsite Yahoo account and then forward to her corporate email it would open.

I think there's definetely something going on with the formatting of the PDF (was it created by a true Adobe PDF distiller or one of the many clones?), what email application attached it? (Outlook, Eudora, IOS Mail, etc) and how many PDF reading apps are on your IOS devices?

For instance I have the default PDF reader, iBooks, Kindle, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and there may be others that I don't even know has PDF capability. Only Apple probably has a good idea of how many apps utilize this.

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Update..I spoke with Apple Support. They had me delete my email accounts & re-add them. Attachements opened without issue afterwards.

After trying severla different things suggested here and other sites I gave up. Then one day I decided to try again and it worked just fine. My only thoughts are there must have been various apps that were causing a conflict because some of the ones people mentioned I did not have. This might not have been the smoothest change over and I will not be an early adopter again!

I too deleted my gmail account, then reinstalled, and then the options to open in iBook and various others all appeared again once I downloaded the document. Weird, but at least it now works.

I am also having this issue on my iPad Air with iOS 7. No "Open In..." option in mail or Safari.

I upgraded ro ios7 reluctantly as some of my favourite apps had stopped working. I then found that after I switched on restrictions (under settings->general) I lost the ability to open pdf attachments to emails. Switching restructions off subsequently allowed me to open pdfs again.