How to add an attachment in Apple mail

Is there a clear answer here?

If I compose an email on my iphone or ipad can I choose to add an attachment(s)?

if not, why??

I could not agree more. I had to "reply all" to 10 people, none of whom I have their email addresses on file, and attach a signed contract in PDF form. For me to send from within the app would have required spending a ridiculous amount of time adding each person to my mail contacts, then remembering who I was supposed to send the email to, and finally, sending the email with attachment through my PDF program. I ended up forwarding the doc to my computer and then replying all with the attachment.

APPLE, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT. No idea if they're actually reading these forums.

I LOVE Apple products as a consumer, but as a business person it ***** on many levels. I'm looking forward to Blackberry getting its act together and creating a better version of its Playbook; I'm going to switch over to all Windows based hardware/software. Apple isn't cutting it.

I with you 100000 percent. If you go to the ITPAd forum those apple fan boys have know idea what your talking about. They think all this click, copying and pasteing is normal. I dont think APPLE cares. I have read post like this that goes pack to thefirst iphone. But yet Siri will do amost any thing.

Kinda simple Stupid

Apple needs to allow sending attachments to replies and forwards but until that happens, here is the only way to send email attachments.

It's actually worse even than this. How on earth do you have more than one attachment on an email, especially iof they are of different types?

I tried using Goodreader but none of my photos are available to it.

I'm new to the iPad (and never had an iPhone), but I'm definitely learning a few things.

You cannot really attach anything to an e-mail, either using the iPad mail app or any browser-based mail interface you might prefer over their mail app.
There are certainly apps that let you e-mail a file from within that app. For example, you can open a photo in the photo app and then e-mail that one photo, or open a PDF file in your PDF reader app and e-mail that one PDF file. This does let you send an attached file via e-mail, but it's very limited, and it's backwards from what folks seem to want to do. It's simply not the same thing as opening an e-mail (in whatever e-mail app or browser e-mail program) and then attaching files to the e-mail.

The iPad does not have a "file system" in the traditional sense that Windows/PC or Mac users are familiar with. I assume this is at least part of the reason you can't add attachments (or do some other seemingly simple things). Maybe there's some sort of "file system" app out there that simulates that.

Apple assumes you will use something like iCloud and syncing with a computer. (That's a whole other can of worms.)

There are a lot of apps for the iPad, and there are probably apps to do a lot of things you want to do, if you want to pay extra. And I guess to some folks it seems stupid to not just shell out $3 or $10 or $20 for each of these apps, but if you've already spent $600 - $800 on the iPad, you do feel a bit ripped off. You could easily spend hundreds of more dollars on all the apps you'd need to accomplish what you could have gotten built-in with a "cheapo" $500 Windows netbook. (But, then you'd have to deal with a larger, slower, heavier device and all the Windows problems...)

It seems to me the iPad is intended for things like sharing photos & videos, playing games, downloading/watching movies, and social networking. And apparently lots of folks have fun with some of its many, many odd apps, like ones that let you measure a room or read bar codes. It has limited capabilities when it comes to working with data or files or doing many things you'd traditionally do on a desktop/laptop/netbook computer (Windows or Mac or anything else).

The iPad is not intended to be a substitute for a "computer." If I'd researched the capabilities, I probably would not have gotten an iPad because of its limitations. But, I got it as a Christmas gift and am trying to take advantage of its benefits (there are many) and looking for workarounds for its cons & limitations (there are many!). And, for all I know, there aren't any tablets currently available that can do the kind of things I'd like to do.

This is very bothersome--I buy an Apple but can't attach a simple pdf file to an email? I guess I will go back to my PC.

I understand the security need for Sandboxing. But even WITHIN Apple's own apps? I can't be in mail and tap to say attach a photo from my photo library? And if I do it through Photos, I can't send more than one at a time?

Granted, I have had an iPad for some time and am just discovering this now. But come on. "Just go 3rd party" or "Jailbreak" are not solutions for something this simple. Other things, yes. Not emailing an attachment.

You can copy the phots and paste them into an email.

In the Photos app, tap the arrow at top right, tap the photos you want then tap Copy.

it's really simpe to be honest, before starting to write a mail message go to your "photos" app, find the pictute you'd like to attach and click the arrow logo on the top of the picture then "email photo"

n66x wrote:

it's really simpe to be honest, before starting to write a mail message go to your "photos" app, find the pictute you'd like to attach and click the arrow logo on the top of the picture then "email photo"

Or start writing an email, then copy & paste the photos into the email.

Here is a problem I have with attachments where using another app and sending the document from that does not work.... Looking for employment on Craigslist where you click a link and it uses craigslist's anonymous remailer with that random reply to email address. When I'm out in public I don't carry my heavy laptop around. The purpose of a tablet is convenience so I don't have to carry a 10 lb laptop. I can just whip out my small iPad and reply on the spot while at lunch somewhere. My resume is just a simple word document. Because of this I'm starting to rethink my views on apple mobile products. Don't get me wrong, I love m iPad except for this.

Mikey2872 wrote:

Here is a problem I have with attachments where using another app and sending the document from that does not work.... Looking for employment on Craigslist where you click a link and it uses craigslist's anonymous remailer with that random reply to email address. When I'm out in public I don't carry my heavy laptop around.

And this happens a lot?

You are out in public, just walking around, unemployed and feel the need to apply for jobs on Craigslist wtih your iPad?

Have you tried using any of the CraigsList apps?

The purpose of a tablet is convenience so I don't have to carry a 10 lb laptop.

A 10 lb laptop? Purchase this back in 2003?

I figured you were an apple fanboy! Lol. And to answer you, trying to deny that lack of attachment support in emails are a problem for most people... Yes being unemployed and need to find a job I am frequently out in public. Whether it is lunch, waiting for an interview with a hiring manager, or for some maybe public transportation. My laptop is a gaming laptop weighing almost 9 lbs.

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