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After updating to 13.3 on both my iPad and my iPhone X, Mail downloads attachments, let me preview them but when I try to open them in Excel or Words to save them, Mail shuts down immediately. Anyone knows a fix to share? Thank you!

Posted on Dec 27, 2019 11:00 AM

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Answer 1

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ApplePITP

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Jan 17, 2020 11:19 PM in response to guizzo

As a workaround you can DO it as follows:

Click and hold on attachment.
Select Share
Select MS Word
Attachment will open in Word

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hdl007

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Jan 17, 2020 10:30 PM in response to guizzo

This is a painful and frustrating part with the new update. I can preview MS Office attachments, but the moment I try to open them on MS Excel/Word/Powerpoint using the "More" tab, the Mail app crashes.

The workaround is saving every file and opening it separately through the respective MS Office app. This is not how iOS is supposed to make our lives simpler!

Don't think any solution has been offered yet.

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hdl007

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Jan 18, 2020 9:49 PM in response to guizzo

It does work, many thanks!

But what I mentioned above is a bug (?) and needs a resolution too. Hope that's also being solved. At times, one wants to decide to edit an attachment only after previewing it, and the preview option was quick and useful.

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