Unable to print emails after updating iPad to iPadOS 26.2 and then 26.2.1.

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Unable to print emails after updating iPad to iPadOS 26.2 and then 26.2.1.

my iPad updated to 26.2 and then to 26.2.1. I have lost the ability to print off emails when I’ve needed to. Fortunately I stopped my iPhone from updating. Never again. There is a clumsy work-around but it only prints in a long tiny column which is also unusable. (Screen-shot, enlarge to full screen and print: don’t)

is anyone else having this problem?

I’ve left a note for Apple but even their agent didn’t know what to do and thought my page was the same as usual. It isn’t. Fortunately my folks on the ground here are looking at the problem. Unfortunately we are 5.5 hours away from a Geek store.

Posted on Feb 5, 2026 5:43 AM

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LotusPilot

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Feb 9, 2026 3:30 PM in response to JNB_apple

JNB_apple wrote:

I am having this problem on my iPhone as well ever since the update. The instructions that lotus pilot provides do not work. When I click on the reply. These are the only options I have

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/75f43574-2a2e-4b74-bc30-faabb6be26a3

My reply above relates to iPad - and yes, it does work with iPhone as well...

For iPhone, the process is just the same - but due to the smaller screen, it is perhaps slightly less clear.

Having tapped the reply icon the show the available actions (per your screenshot), you will initially see just the top of the extended menu. Swipe-upwards from the top-edge of illustrated menu (from just above the row of four buttons that you see at the top of your screenshot).

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LotusPilot

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Feb 5, 2026 10:58 AM in response to CodyBluedog

A few reports have been seen here of difficulties printing mail messages.

Scroll to the bottom of the email message that you wish to print. At the bottom-right corner of the Mail window you will see a reply button; tap to expose the associated Action Menu.

Scroll through the available actions, then select Print.

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Feb 10, 2026 8:16 AM in response to LotusPilot

As I mentioned, that menu option does get one to a print screen but it is tiny and prints only in a column that is impossible to read.

and why do we have to go to the trouble - screenshot, dropdown, unreadable print - when it was So easy and efficient before?

Having struggled through this for a couple of weeks now, I am finding Some - not all - of my emails have an option for reply/print (as of old) at the bottom right end of the email - but only if I really struggle to get there, and sometimes only if I have hit reply first.

I think if Apple doesn’t fix this, it will be my last apple product because, really? Enough with the. Updates. Once and done.

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Feb 9, 2026 2:55 PM in response to Jeff Donald

I am having this problem on my iPhone as well ever since the update. The instructions that lotus pilot provides do not work. When I click on the reply. These are the only options I have

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Feb 10, 2026 10:46 AM in response to LotusPilot

ahhhhhh..... got it! thanks so much for the clarification! that worked!

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LotusPilot

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Feb 10, 2026 11:17 AM in response to JNB_apple

You're very welcome. I'm delighted that we got there in the end.

It's often more difficult to describe than it is to achieve when understood.

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Feb 5, 2026 6:12 AM in response to CodyBluedog

It looks like you are a new user. You should post this in the iPad community, not iPhone community. I’ll ask the moderators to move your post to iPad community.

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