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Outlook for iOS: cannot load or send attachments
I am using the MS Outlook app on my iPhone and iPad.
Since about 2 weeks, I am unable to open any attachment (all file types are affected) and images embedded into emails are not shown. Furthermore, I am not able to send emails with attachments as emails just get stuck in the Outbox. I have no problems to open the files on my desktop computer or on the web. It is just in the app.
In the meantime, I have resetted my account in the app multiple times, have deleted and reinstalled the app and even deleted and reinstalled the company profile on the devices. All of this with no effect; the error persists. My colleagues don’t have any problems despite having the same hardware.
Has anybody else the same problems? Is there a solution available that the in-app support doesn’t know of?
Does this happen with all of the attachments or only particular one ? What are those attachments except for PDF or Excel ( I assume that you have those apps installed as well )
Please do a test. Create a Word file on another device and send it to your account and try to open it on IOS.
Please share the results.Regards,
Akshay
I am having the same issue. PDF, Word, JPEG files are all showing the error message shown in the previous thread. I am using an iPad with the Outlook app installed as my mail application. I am using it for my gmail account.
I have tried attaching from OneDrive, the file system on my iPad Pro, DropBox.
iPad 13.6.1
iPad Pro
Model number: MZAW2LL/A
Same issue as above, no attachments can be viewed or downloaded via Outlook version 4.57.0 running IOS 140.0.1.
Since Outlook for iOS 4.9.0 and iPadOS 13.2, at end October 2019, the problem of not being able to attach certain files to outgoing iPad Outlook mail messages has been resolved, in my experience.
Not working here. I’ve tried to attach from within the app from Onedrive, attach within from iCloud drive, and drag and drop from the Onedrive app. Eventually gave up and used the stock mail app.
Kinda ridiculous to have a 6 month old issue for sending attachments on a business-oriented email app.
I have had the same issues. I have even changed phones with more storage. Any attachment it locks up or doest not load. Please let me know.
Det. Richm-v-r
- I too am getting the same problem. Cannot attach any image, file etc from my iPhone to outlook. This happened after I updated to iOS 13. But have no problems with gmail
Same here. I can send emails from Outlook for iOS on my iPad Pro, using my Office 365 subscription ... as long as they don’t have an attachment. In recent weeks, if I add a PDF or a file I get a failure message:
I’ve tried resetting the account, to no avail. Eventually, I simply have to send the mail using the native iOS Mail app ... using the same ISP and email account.
So, what next? Ditch Outlook?
- Same for me
- Thank you! I’ll give your method a try.
