How to Make a Basic iOS Email Signature
An email signature shows up at the bottom of outgoing emails. It might include a name and title, a quote, or information, such as a website URL or phone number. Email signatures are set up on the iPhone and iPad in the Settings app. The iPhone’s default signature line is “Sent from my iPhone,” but you can change this signature to anything you want (or use none at all). You can even make an email signature that differs for each of your connected email accounts. Here’s how to set up a basic email signature that automatically shows up at the end of each of your outgoing emails on your iPhone or iPad:
Add Images and Other Formatting to a Signature
You can’t change the color, font, or font size of an email signature by default. The iOS Mail app signature settings offer only basic rich-text features. Even if you copy and paste a formatted feature from elsewhere into the Mail signature settings, most of the rich-text formatting is removed. However, there’s a trick to creating additional formatting details, including images.
Tips for Composing an Email Signature
Although the default signature-formatting options on an iOS device don’t provide much variety, you can still generate an effective signature by following a few guidelines.
Keep it short. Limit your signature to no more than five lines of text. If you think you can’t make your information fit, use pipes (|) or colons (:) to separate text sections. A business signature should include your name, title, company name, a link to the company website, and a business phone number. If available, add a link to a recent article or post about you or your company. You don’t need to include your email address in your email signature because it’s at the top of the email. For a personal email account, include links to your social profiles on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Short, inspiring quotes often appear at the end of email signatures. These are more appropriate for personal than business signatures. Leave out any legal disclaimers unless your company requires you to include one. Test your formatted signature with several email clients to make sure it looks the way you want.
