So if you’ve decided you like how the icons look more-so than having an inline attachment with your email text, then maybe a more permanent solution is in the cards. Displaying attachment as icons the permanent way But if you’re looking for a more long-term solution, then keep reading… We’ve got a much more permanent solution coming up.
Keep in mind that if you used this method, all future emails with attachments will still continue to display inline and you’ll have to repeat steps 1-3 again and again every time you open a new email. You can easily convert it back to an inline attachment again by right-clicking on the icon and choosing the View in Place option from the drop-down list.
To do that, follow these steps:ġ) Launch the Mail app on your Mac and open an email with an attachment in it.Ģ) Right-click on the attachment and click on the View as Icon option.ģ) The inline attachment will now be converted into an icon:Īnd that’s all you’ve got to do to display an attachment as an icon for a particular email.
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Displaying attachments as icons the temporary wayįirst, we’ll show you how to do this temporarily from the email message itself, so you can see what it’s like. There are actually two ways to accomplish this: 1) temporarily, on an email-to-email basis so only the email you’re currently viewing displays attachments as icons, or 2) permanently, so every email you get henceforth will display attachments as icons. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to display attachments in the Mail app on your Mac as icons.
For some file types, macOS displays the attachment inline with text, but in the case of high-resolution images, this can sometimes impact email readability. If you send or receive emails on your Mac, then you might run into an attachment on occasion.