How do i attach a photo to emails on an ipad?

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How do i attach a photo to emails on an ipad?

Yes - this has been raised before, but it now has a new twist ... so be patient.

There are two ways to attach an image (according to previous posts):

1. Type out the email first, touch the background of the email for a moment or two and you can either select "insert photo or video" or "Add Attachment". The first inserts the photo "in line" with the text - no good if you are sending to someone who wants to save the photo separately. The second should allow you to select a photo from the photos on your iPad - but doesn't. It diverts you to selecting from photos stored on iCloud which is NOT what you want.

2. Start in Photos, select one and use the "share" icon to send by Mail. This is fine for the first photo but runs into the same issues as method 1 if you want to add more.

Apple assumes that everyone uses iCloud to store all their photos. If I did it would cost a fortune -no thanks. The insistance on using iCloud seems to have been introduced at one of the last versions of iOS.

Does anyone know how to circumvent this? We need a simple way of attaching an image to an email on an iPad sourced from the iPad's collection of images. Or this is too difficult to do?

iOS 10.2.1

Posted on Aug 3, 2017 7:02 AM

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Answer 1

DavJam Author

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Aug 3, 2017 8:43 AM in response to King_Penguin

Thanks for your help...

1. I attach screen shot taken when I choose "Add Attachment"

As you can see this option only allows attachments sourced in the iCloud.

2. I know i can do this, but sometimes you forget one image and need to add it later. This leads you back to using the smart menu with the two options I have described. Neither allow true attachments and one only allows iCloud sourced images.

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King_Penguin

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Aug 3, 2017 7:11 AM in response to DavJam

1, can you post a screenshot of what you are seeing ? I get the option to select photos that are stored in the Photos app (Moments, Camera Roll, My Photo Stream etc.) - I'm not using iCloud Photo Library so don't know if that makes any difference to the options that show.

2, in thumbnail view in the Photos app you can use the Select button top right to select multiple photos and then 'share' them to the Mail app, you don't have to do just one photo

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Answer 3

King_Penguin

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Aug 3, 2017 9:23 AM in response to DavJam

1, Are you using iCloud Photo Library ? If you are (I'm not) hopefully somebody else who is will reply for what they see.

2, you can also copy-and-paste from the Photos app into an email, the 'share' icon gives you a 'copy' icon with the 'paste' option showing on the same popup in the Mail app as the 'insert photo video' etc. options.

Back to your first post :

The first inserts the photo "in line" with the text - no good if you are sending to someone who wants to save the photo separately.

They should still be able to save the photo

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