In some instances, email attachments may also fail to open due to network-related problems like when the attached file is too large and the Internet connection is too slow or unstable. the file is too large and available storage is low.no similar app on the iPhone can open the attached file.

attached file is incompatible format or unsupported file.Among the common reasons as to why email attachments won’t open on an iPhone include but not limited to the following: Otherwise, there’s no way for you to view the attached contents. To view or open email attachments, you will need to use other apps or tools that support the attached file type.

You will know that the email contains an attachment if you see the paper clip icon next to the name of the sender’s message header. If it is and still won’t open or showing unsupported file error, troubleshoot your device using the workarounds mapped out below.Įmails can contain file attachments. I haven't tried this b/c of time and also b/c I don't typically do e-mail on my phone.If you cannot open email attachments on iPhone XS, make sure that the download process has been completed. In that thread, someone said they had a workaround of sending to their Iphone and then the attachments downloaded and then they re sent to their e-mail IMap acct. NOTE: I reopened a thread from 2018 which discussed the same intermittent problem b/c Apple said it was so long ago I had to ask again. Maybe if I wait long enough the Photo images will download but it seems like it is taking a very long time. Curiously, the Quickbooks doc that had the same blue message for a long time miraculously opened for me a few minutes ago. There will be an image icon (such as image.#JPEG or what looks like a text edit doc but may be a QuickBooks doc) with small blue writing below that says 'downloading. Today) but not all the time, attachments don't open. Attachments Getting Stuck when downloading in Apple Mail (as per previous thread 2018) I am using Apple Mail with 2015 MacBook Pro and Mojave.

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