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Title: How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad Post by: HCK on October 12, 2015, 03:00:23 pm How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/how-add-email-attachments-mail-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_blw/public/field/image/2015/10/mail-file-attachments-iphone-6s-plus-hero.jpg?itok=BFO_lTHS' />[/url]</p> <p class="intro">With iOS 9 you can attach files to your emails. At last, the productivity circle is complete!</p> <p>You're writing an email and need to attach a file to it, perhaps an office or iWork document, or maybe a PDF or text file. Previously you would have need to go to an app, find the file, and send from there. No longer. With iOS 9 (http://www.imore.com/ios-9), Apple has delivered. For security reasons, you still can't go wandering through the file system, but now you attach any file into any email from any storage provider app, including iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more. Here's how!<!--break--></p> <ul><li><a href="#attachicloud">How to attach iCloud Drive files to email on iPhone and iPad[/url]</li> <li><a href="#attachother">How to attach Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive or enterprise files to email on iPhone and iPad[/url]</li> </ul><p><a name="attachicloud" id="attachicloud">[/url]</p> <h2>How to attach iCloud Drive files to email on iPhone and iPad</h2> <p>Because Apple's iCloud service is built into iOS, files located in iCloud Drive are simplest to attach.</p> <ol><li>Launch <strong>Mail</strong> from your Home screen</li> <li>Tap <strong>Compose</strong> to start a new email.</li> <li>Touch-and-hold to bring up the editing menu.</li> <li>Tap the <strong>arrow</strong> button to get more options.</li> <li>Tap <strong>Add Attachment</strong>. <a href='http://www.imore.com/how-add-email-attachments-mail-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad"><img src='(http://[img]http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/10/how-to-attach-file-email-screens-01b.jpg)[/img]?itok=5qIaKX7J' />[/url] </li> <li>Tap on the <strong>folder</strong> that contains the file you want to attach, if it's not at the top level.</li> <li>Tap on the <strong>file</strong> you want to attach. <a href='http://www.imore.com/how-add-email-attachments-mail-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad"><img src='(http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/10/how-to-attach-file-email-screens-02-proper.jpg)?itok=w05gJGuk' />[/url] </li> </ol><p>Add a recipient, a message, and you're good to go.</p> <p><a name="attachother" id="attachother">[/url]</p> <h2>How to attach Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive or enterprise files to email on iPhone and iPad</h2> <p>Thanks to document provider extensions (http://www.imore.com/ios-8-document-provider-extensions-explained) you can also attach files from other popular online storage services, and from an enterprise storage system if you have one.</p> <p>For the document provider extension to be available, you first have to download the host app from the App Store.</p> <ul><li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8&at=10l3Vy&ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Dropbox[/url]</li> <li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/google-drive-free-online-storage/id507874739?mt=8&at=10l3Vy&ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Google Drive[/url]</li> <li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/onedrive-cloud-storage-for/id477537958?mt=8&at=10l3Vy&ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download OneDrive[/url]</li> </ul><p>Once you've downloaded the app, launch it and log into your account. Then you can start attaching away.</p> <ol><li>Launch <strong>Mail</strong> from your Home screen</li> <li>Tap <strong>Compose</strong> to start a new email.</li> <li>Touch-and-hold to bring up the editing menu.</li> <li>Tap the <strong>arrow</strong> button to get more options.</li> <li>Tap <strong>Add Attachment</strong>. <a href='http://www.imore.com/how-add-email-attachments-mail-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad"><img src='(http://[img]http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/10/how-to-attach-file-email-screens-01b.jpg)[/img]?itok=5qIaKX7J' />[/url] </li> <li>Tap on <strong>Locations</strong> at the top left.</li> <li>Tap on the storage provider you want to use. If you don't see your preferred provider: <ol><li>Tap on <strong>More</strong>.</li> <li>Switch <strong>On</strong> your preferred storage provider.</li> <li>Tap on <strong>Done</strong>. <a href='http://www.imore.com/how-add-email-attachments-mail-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad"><img src='(http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/10/how-to-attach-file-email-screens-04.jpg)?itok=dQ4LgYdh' />[/url] </li> </ol></li> <li>Tap on the <strong>folder</strong> that contains the file you want to attach, if it's not at the top level.</li> <li>Tap on the <strong>file</strong> you want to attach. <a href='http://www.imore.com/how-add-email-attachments-mail-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad"><img src='(http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/10/how-to-attach-file-email-screens-03.jpg)?itok=ud2_fXND' />[/url] </li> <li>Some providers, like Google Drive, allow for multiple accounts. In those cases: <ol><li>Tap on the <strong>account</strong> you want to access.</li> <li>Tap on the <strong>folder</strong> that contains the file you want to attach, if it's not at the top level.</li> <li>Tap on the <strong>file</strong> you want to attach. <a href='http://www.imore.com/how-add-email-attachments-mail-iphone-and-ipad' title="How to add email attachments to Mail for iPhone and iPad"><img src='(http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/10/how-to-attach-file-email-screens-03-gdrive.jpg)?itok=Sb9yK3wx' />[/url] </li> </ol></li> </ol><p>Add a recipient, a message, and you're done.</p> <p>Want to save email attachments as well? 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