"View as Icon" in High Sierra Mail.app gone.

I had this issue, but then – out of the blue – it worked: I could right-click on a single attachment, and select 'View as icon.'

When I added another image, however, the option disappeared ... BUT, if I swiped over all the attachments to select them, the option became available again.

Try highlighting the attachments from the body of the email, and see if 'View as icon' is available in your contextual menu. It shows the 'View in place' option if they're already 'iconified.'

It looks like the option is missing if you click directly on an attachment in the message window, but not if the attachments are selected in the same manner as a piece of text.

Hope that's of help …

Until Apple fixes the issue a workaround is to either zip the pdf file(s) or put them in a folder and add the folder to the email as the attachment.

Its so frustrating!

It still works with single-page PDFs but not multipage PDFs. Hence you may see it sometimes but not others.

Actually, I ran up on this this afternoon after "upgrading" to High Sierra yesterday.

I checked here and the question did not see to be resolved at all. I was pressed for time to get a reply out to a co-worker and include the .pdf document. I just sent it with what appeared to be the first page of the document being used as a huge icon. I always cc myself. Would you believe it!!!! The received document had a small icon in place of the document. It did it automatically!!! This actually is probably an improvement.

With respect to the "beach balls" popping up...... It seems to happen less often as I use different parts of the system. I am willing to believe, at this time, that the OS is just learning how my system works and is adapting to it.

Instead of just complaining tell Apple about the shortcoming via https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html. Until you do they won't know it's a problem with us users.

The "view as icon" option has disappeared but now seems to be the default. That will normally suit me but now when I want to exceptionally view as image I can't because that also seems to have disappeared along with view as icon.

I am equally annoyed as you. I've wasted hours trying to find a way around this and unless Apple does change this back I will switch to microsoft mail as it is completely unprofessional for me not to be able to send attachments at icons. I can't believe Apple has done this.

This is seriously annoying and completely pointless. Why am I forced to see the first page of a multi-page PDF? Why can’t I change it to an icon as I’ve always done? There is NO benefit to me here. It’s cumbersome to type an email with this giant document taking up ¾ of the screen. That it only affects multi-page PDFs and not single page docs, tells me this is an error on Apple’s part. Nothing else makes sense.

Fix your mistake, Apple. Bring back View as Icon for all documents!!

Snark is appropriate. As a loyal Apple user for many years with 7 devices I am actually considering switching to Microsoft. Hair-brained changes like this are becoming much to frequent to tolerate.