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How to add an attachment in Apple mail

I tried to do this for the first time this morning and couldn't figure out (granted, I was in a tearing hurry). Where on the interface is this? Thx!

IPad, iPhone OS 3.1.2, Wifi + 3G 64GB

Posted on Jun 3, 2010 8:44 AM

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Posted on Jun 3, 2010 8:54 AM

There is no capability to add attachments from within email itself. The individual apps support email from directly within the applications themselves.
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Jun 3, 2010 9:29 AM in response to Corsair Noir

how do you email attachments? What apps give you that ability?

Those that allow you to "share" content (i.e., that will open Mail with the content added to a new email message) and those that allow you to copy content to temporary memory, then open Mail, place your cursor where you want to add the content, and then paste the content to your email message. (E.g., Maps, Photos, etc.)


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Jun 3, 2010 10:44 AM in response to Corsair Noir

In case it's not clear, the iPad will not allow you to add attachments to email. As Jon said, it only allows you to paste text and photos into your mail. Pages and the other iWork apps do allow you to send the docs as an attachment, but they're the only ones I know of that do that and they are Apple's own apps and Apple has access to some areas of the OS that 3rd party developers do not.

Jun 3, 2010 12:16 PM in response to StevePug2

StevePug2 wrote:
Pages and the other iWork apps do allow you to send the docs as an attachment, but they're the only ones I know of that do that and they are Apple's own apps and Apple has access to some areas of the OS that 3rd party developers do not.

I have had my iPad for 1 week now and I can name several that do!
iFiles, Dropbox, iDisk, Office2 HD, Documents to Go, etc. etc.
There must be many more.

Jun 8, 2010 8:36 AM in response to Onag

There is no built in method for adding attachments. Yes you can buy third party apps that might do this function well, however Apple has made sure to shut down this option. For me personally this means that I am not far from returning my iPad and going out to buy a Windows or Ubuntu netbook. One should not have to spend extra money to have a feature as basic as adding or reading attachments.

Jan 1, 2011 8:53 AM in response to googleblast

Every iOs app has own isolated space for files, and this is done for your good: for improved security. Therefore Mail application has technically no way to access your files created by Office or any other application, so add attachment feature would be actually pretty useless. I guess some upcoming iOs version will have "shared directory" or something similar, like all other mobile (and non-mobile) OS's have.

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