Can't view pdf attachments within mail apps

I wish I did have a solution but its been 3 months and everything I've tried is to no avail. Really affects my work. Wish Apple would chime in and help out. So for now all I can do is to commiserate with you and hope someone comes up with a solution.

OK thanks shame

I Am having the same issue. Apple must fix this quickly, it is crippling to me being able to conduct business on my phone. I am about to have to do the unthinkable and get an android. why does Apple hate pdf's?

I might have found the problem. So, it happens that I had used the default Mail app of my iMac to send the attachments. What I did is that I sent the Attachment from the Default Gmail website, and the recipient in this case got it to work correctly. Also another problem was that he was using a user@website. com email, I sent it to his Gmail account instead.

You are a Champion ! I have had this problem for the last month or so and has been driving me crazy. Called Apple support today and did a restore on my iPad which looked to work until all my apps downloaded.

After reading your post it was Bamboo Spark !

Deleted it and did a restart and all is good !

Thanks for posting the fix !

Bambo Spark was the guilty guy here too! Thanks!

Update.

I went to the Apple store about a month ago (again) and I have an update. The Apple genius confirmed what we all knew, that PDFs were not able to be read on my iPhone or iPad, each upgraded to the current iOS. I went to the store, based on an idea from a colleague, that I would try to downgrade the iOS on one of my iPads to a prior version. I was disappointed to learn that that is not possible, at least through the Apple Store.

After further discussion with the genius, I said that I was willing to have one of my iPads completely erased and set up as a new device. She proceeded to completely erase the iPad and then set it up as a entirely new device. That is, as if it were new and out-of-the-box. Most importantly, I did not restore my content or applications from my back up. This is a complete nuke of the device--erase all content and settings. Then plug in to the computer and fired up iTunes and set the device to set up as new. Do not restore from your backup (though I did make a new backup before doing this, just in case I needed it).

I then signed in to iCloud and set up my Apple Mail account. Surprisingly, I was able to read PDFs. That was the good news. The other news is that I had none of my content or applications on the iPad. I began to selectively restore just a minimal number applications (about 20-30) from the Apple Store and so far, so good.

Further update. Just a few days ago, after several weeks of this fix working, I tried it on my other iPad, a 9.7 iPad Pro. Complete erase of everything, restore as new while plugged into iTunes, download only selected previously purchased apps from Apple's App Store. All has been working for about a week on this device and i can read and save PDFs as normal. If this continues, I will nuke my iPhone and try the same thing. The solution is radical and takes some time to get everything back and workable, but it does seem to be a solution for me.

This solution suggests that it is possible one of my applications causes the bug.

I am cautiously optimistic the solution will continue to work. At this point, you may want to try the solution on a non-critical device or if you are desperate.

I had the same problem after installing the bamboo app with my iphone. First I tried to upgrade to 9.3.5, but it did not help. I installed the outlook app to be able to read PDF in email at least until a solution is known.

However there is an update in the app store today (inkspace, bamboo spark), I downloaded it and the problem seems to be solved.

On my iPad -where the bamboo app is not installed- I never got the problem.

The solutions proposed in this chain of responses do not work. This is maddening. Opening PDFs is a basic necessity for the business user. This is an unacceptable defect. I'm thinking about throwing this phone (6s+) away and getting an android.

This problem persists on my iPhone; not on my iPad or my mac. Why?!?!?!😠😠😕😠😕