Attaching files in emails on ipad

Pkerbage-

I suggest you express your frustration by providing feedback to Apple. Apple does not necessarily read these postings, especially in a thread that started over three years ago.

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You can jump between Apps by double-clicking the home button. I do not know if E-Mailing a document from within its App, will allow you to transfer the document to another E-Mail. If you could display both at the same time, you might be able to drag the document from one to the other. I do not think that is possible, but have not tried it.

You may be wasting your time. On the other hand, the iPad is handy for other things!

Fred

Appreciate it Fred - but I have LOOOONG moved away from iPads (and many of my business peers have). THe iPads were great when they first came up (though not the first ones - the IBM X Tablets were). But with today's other Tablets that offer far greater functionality, the iPad in MY opinion and in MY book (and only in mine) is irrelevant now. Apple never fixed the fact that you cannot start a new Email (or reply to one) and attach a bunch of say, Excel Files or Word files from a storage area of MY chosing (not theirs). No USB 3.0, No HDMI, No SD Card, no extensability, no file system whatsoever makes it a useless device for me. Essentially, the iPad remains in our family as a cute browsing tool, and for gaming, but it is not what flips my boat and in my humble opinion, NOT a productivity tool. I personally turned to the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 - which gives me all the millions of apps that I am used to, already have, already have purchased, and DOES allow me to have up to 512 GIG of storage (not 128) WITH a REAL browsable file system and I CAN attach files and reply to Emails and drag and drop files WITHOUT needing some monster program like iTunes. Essentially, it is a full power house in a Tablet with far more apps, far better apps (Windows 8.1), far better productivity, REAL multi-tasking, and a far better OS. I do not work for Microsoft, nor sell or buy Microsoft nor even own Microsoft stocks. This is just my HUMBLE opinion. The iPad is great for light browsing, reading books, love the new iPad Air (nicely thin, light, etc...), but for me, I need something that is a bit more than just reading a mag/book or light browsing. After all, if that is all you need, why spend $$$ on an iPad - there are Android Tabs out there for around $200 that do more for less. I wish you well and I hope Apple continues to do well in the marketplace. I believe there is something and a product for everyone. That's what makes technology ubiquitous. It just isn't for ME. Today, I find the iPads as IRRELEVANT as they are stuck in NO MAN'S LAND. Too expensive for light duty (which is what they were designed for) and too CHEAP for REAL productivity (which they can NOT do). Again, just my humble opinion, from a person who has been in technology since 1979.

Hi, For any of you who have been looking for ways to attach files when replying or forwarding a mail.

There is a new App available - Called "Email Reply".

https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id780069308?mt=8

It is pretty basic, but it supports POP and IMAP and major email accounts such as Google mail, Yahoo mail, Microsoft Hotmail, iCloud mails etc. For you company accounts, as long as you know your POP and IMAP settings, then it would work for you.

I tried attach several files in a email reply, and it worked just what many of you wished a iPad could do.

Another nice thing is that you could open multiple email accounts at once or open multiple attached files at once in a browser like user interface.

And it supports cloud, Wifi, Open in as well, so you could get files in and out easily. I am a small business owner, it works for me well. I could manage all my email accounts in this App. I have a sense that this App would evolve over time.

Thank you for posting that. I tried it and it works. Now wished they would add support for MIcrosoft Exchange since that is what most of us in business use. Not sure why Apple refuses to embed that functionality in their Email or to give us a file system. Frustrating.

No problem!

As far as I know, Microsoft Exchange allows POP/SMTP or IMAP/SMTP access, doesn't it? But it needs extra setup on Exchage server side though.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/settings-for-pop-and-imap-access- HA102908389.aspx

A solution that works for me on the IPAD is using Google Drive via GMAIL but you can only access this with desktop settings:

Go to Safari > GMAIL > Change to Desktop Setting > create or reply to email > click on Google a Drive to add attachment.

Obviously it goes without saying you need documents saved in your Google Drive first but this is a quick workaround process to use.

Cheers, Justin

There is NO file system on an iPad or iPhone. This is a KILLER for me. Yes, I know - cloud - but that is extremely inconvenient and also you have to be CONNECTED. I want to able to reply to my clients and ATTACH say a Word or Excel File from my Email - not go to safari - login to Google Drive - and wiggle my nose 15 more steps. They call that INTUITIVE ???? Why is it that on my Android Tablet - I DO have a file system (and an SD Card in fact ) and I CAN place all my files (and synch them in fact with or without the cloud - with or without my computer and I do not need iTunes - it is a simple DRAG AND DROP) - Same with my Surface Pro 2. Apple is cute but it is just FAR too complicated for me - and FAR to unsuable for the stuff that I am trying to do. FOlks - All I want to do is send out an Email with an ATTACHMENT of a REAL document but I need to do it by replying to my clients - not going somewhere else or starting a NEW email . Why is that SO hard and for the past 10 years STILL has not been resolved by Apple. NO FILE SYSTEM = NO ABILITY to do REAL WORK for ME (could work for YOU - but not for me. I want the simplicity and elegance and power of what I can do with Outlook on my PC. Not have to go through 30 million steps to do that. THAT is not elegance nor simple nor intuitive. We need a FILE SYSTEM.

LOL.....I think you need to go on an anger management course :)

I do agree though it is crazy that you cannot attach documents with mail on iOS, this really should be a basic feature.

I had this problem too

As I write quick invoices on an application called I word

Tap and hold on the document you have created in I word and select the option to send a copy this looks like a piece of paper with an up arrow then simply follow the promps it will create an email for you just add the message

Up load I words the select send a copy simples !!!

Some of us are not using I words or whatever that is. Some of us are using what 99.999% of businesses use: Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other files. I need these files to be stored locally (not in the cloud) and be able to reply to an Email and attach a file from a storage area. A file System. Something EVERY Android Tablet, Android Phone and PC and MAC DOES do. Something the iPads have never been able to do (or the iPhone) which has kept many of us away. That is the KILLER for most of us. Not being able to attach ANY file (or files) we want to to an Email (yes, I know you can hold down your thumb and just attach a picture) - but some of us use our tablets and phones for more than just pictures and games. It is becoming a serious tool. I do like my iPad air - but I have had to resort (like nearly everyone else serious about file attachments - which is most everyone) to alternate solutions. That's too bad as I did like the hardware at one time.

It strikes me that this post keeps on going after 4 years it's started.

Two o three years ago I bought an Apple iPad, at the time the top-of-the line one - some 800€.

I soon realized that I was able to do more with my Galaxy S2 (a smartphone) than with the luxurious piece of hardware I paid so dearly.

First and foremost the never-solved email attachment issue.

Checking with a friend of mine, a high-paid Apple consultant, and with the forum, I found out that there was no way to change the stock keyboard (pretty poor, still tap-based), no possibility to see the device as an external USB card (making it virtually impossible to imp/exp data with PC not equipped with iTunes, some 80Mb piece of SW), no OTA sw update (now fixed, apparently) and a number of other drawbacks.

Someone even told me that I had "to get used to its way of doing things": what?!? I pay 50% more than an equivalent Andtroid tablet and it's me who has to adapt? I expect that if I pay a premium, it's the tablet to adapt to me, and not vice versa.

I sold the unit in a rage and desperation one month after purchase.

I see that after 3 or 4 SO updates (I started with iOS4), the email issue is still there, with people offering the most creative solutions for a problem that shouldn't exist at all in the first place.

I miss the item beauty, but since I have business to do, I can't wast time working around this kind of stupid things.

In my view, Apple products are like a beautiful lady: wonderful for an elegant dinner and some nice time together, but who can't cope with real life issues. People who are into business have more to do than just sharing pix or calling friends on line: I have excel files, I have to type quickly (have you seen the Swype keyboard?), I have need for cutomizing certain aspect of my working space TO MAKE THE TABLET ADAPT TO ME (and not viceversa!!!), I use email a lot for sharing every type of files, quite often different file types at the same time, I need to quickly exchange docs with some PC that just has a free USB port and no special SW and so on. Maybe now iOS8 has addressed some of those issues, but from what I read it's still lagging behind my old galaxy 2 in terms of pure cuntionality,

IMO it's just a nice toy not suitable for serious tasks

+Carlom64 - well stated. I love my iPad Air for what it is - but it is very restrictive- and for that, I have had to give it up and give it to my daughter and go with a different product that DOES allow me to have a file system and attachments. 5 years later - Apple still does not have a file system on its iPhone or iPad.

Ipad great looking good for some games social networking music but thats where it ends.

even watching movies not so good due to letterboxing.

As for attaching multipule documents to a single email forget it even with a bunch of Apple and third party apps namley Pages, Evernote, Dropbox, Docusign, Documents, Documents2, Organidoc, some free some paid.

You still in 2014 cant do such a basic function!

Attaching a single Document to a single email can be done but is a labourious task at best as you cant reply to a email from your mail app and attach a document from within the same app.

To attach a document to a email you have to use a app such as pages click the top right hand corner and select mail to whats frusturating is that you have to create a new email every time you want to do this.

what if you have ten documents to email you have to compose ten emails which on all the other brands you can do the same in 1email.

As for pictures i know that you can attach multipule pics to a single email but as apple claim that the Ipad is so productive yet delevers so poorly on the business side is a killer for me. Try importing a pdf doc into pages good luck with that.

Amazing that 5 YEARS later - Apple continue to not have a file system or being able to attach files to an email (unless it is lousy pictures). No clip, no attach file, no file system, no being able to store files anywhere - the #1 issue voiced by so many - and no results - no improvements. Sad.