Are you trying to send the images from the Photos app, or from the Mail app?
I've just sent 6 photos from the Mail app, it worked without problems.
I just selected 9 photographs from the Photos app, then Share. Email was not greyed out and all 9 photographs were visible in the body of the email.
I can still do it on my iPhone in the Photos app. It's up to date.
Depends on the file size ?
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What's your default mail account? Maybe there's a limit there somewhere.
If it's iCloud, the only limit I could find there, are 27 MB for the size of the message.
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