How do you add attachments to mail on the iPad

You can only send an attachment from the app in which the attachment is saved. For example - you email a photo from the photos app - a Pages document from the Pages app.

All apps that allow for emailing files have an action icon at the top - an arrow icon or a tool icon that you can tap on and then follow the options from there.

How do you add an attachment to a reply?

You don't.... You send a new email with an attachment.....Using the app GROUP EMAIL...

I'm trying to do this, too - I've never used an iPad, it's my wife's, so I have no idea whatsoever how it works. (It's new, so she isn't much the wiser either.)

I've created a pdf file on my MacBook and emailed it to her. Where is it on her iPad? Can she save it onto the Desktop? Into a folder? If she then wants to send it to someone else, from what I understand (above) it has to be sent from within the app (whatever that app may be). How do we do that? Where do we click? It has to be attached to an email, of course, so the recipient knows whats' going on - how is that done? Is there a manual...?

Sorry to sound so ignorant, but I haven't a clue...

pjl123 wrote:

How do you add an attachment to a reply?

You could always try copying the 'document' in the app that created it and then paste it into the reply.

This is off the topic of adding attachments to email but the attachment will be an icon in the email document until you open it in another app with the curved arrow tool at the top of the document view in email. From there, you can send it to any other iOS applicattion, such as Pages, iBooks or QuickofficeHD. The eligible application depends on the document type. There is no file system in iOS per se, a document lives in the cloud or within an application, there is no folder to put a document into, except where applications have a folder system.

I'd like to know a better way to add multiple attachments to email too. I have to use DropBox to copy-paste links into an email and it takes quite a lot of flipping between the DropBox app and email to do it. It can be a problem for some of my customers when their firewall policies don't allow them to access dropbox.com.

iOS is simply not sufficient for business use with this kind of interface. You can only attach photos to email from within the email application and that keeps iOS in the toy department.

Actually, there's an easier way. Just hold your finger in the text box as you would to see the "cut/copy/paste" pop up menu and press "insert photo or video." You will then be taken to your camera roll where you can choose the photo you want to send.