How to Choose an App to Open an Email Attachment
When it comes to email attachments on the iPhone, the Mail app opens them, and that’s about it. To edit or copy an email attachment from your phone, it must first be opened in a different app. When an email attachment opens in another app, you can do anything that the app supports, including editing a photo, saving a file to a cloud storage account, or signing your name on a document. Copying an attachment to an app other than Mail is as easy as sharing the attachment with the app you want to use.
Can’t Pick the App You Want?
Not all apps can open all file types. For example, a 7Z file that holds vacation photos can’t open on the phone, and the average photo editor doesn’t know how to handle this file type. If the apps installed on the phone don’t open the email attachment, research the format and how to open it. You may need to open it on your computer and run it through a file converter so that it’s in a compatible format with an app on the iPhone. There are many file opener apps in the App Store, so a do a quick search there. For example, for photos stored in a 7Z archive, give the iZip iOS app a try. iZip accepts the 7Z format and is listed with other apps that can utilize the format, such as Google Drive and MEGA.
