Answer : Ok, got it to work now, after a lot of research and intercepting some Intents. What I had to do was change the file:/// to content://. I did this following this information from Android: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/content/FileProvider.html The only major change was that I used a hard-coded path to /sdcard/file.ext. Also, the line getUriForFile(getContext(), "com.mydomain.fileprovider", newFile); was changed to Uri contentUri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(this, "com.mydomain.fileprovider", newFile); Also had to include: intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION); intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION); i.setData(contentUri); I do not really understand why I had to change from File to Content , but after this, the file is now being attached again! See the link if you face this issue, and don't forget about the new .xml that needs to be created. See the following question: