How can i attach a file to an email?

Hit Reply All or Reply, depending on what you wish.

Write your response.

• tap a blank part of your response to bring up the options "Select, Select All, Paste"
• Notice the traingle / arrow to the right of Paste
• Tap it
• It brings up "Insert Photo or Video" (*not a photo you want to attach? see below)
• Tap It
• It brings up you Photos: Camera Roll and My Photo Stream
• Go into either one and find your file
• Tap it
• It brings up the file. Select Choose in the bottom right corner in blue
• Its pasted into the email

Not a Photo or Video you want to attach?

Pdf files can be saved / copied to Camera Roll and remain as Pdfs.

If someone has emailed you a Pdf, open it and then hit the actions icon (for reply or forward etc)

You can then Save to Camera Roll. This will allow you to attach to new emails, or reply to emails with an attachment.

I actually simply need to be able to attach 2 or 3 .doc files to the same e-mail.

You have to email the attachment from within the app itself - for example you email a photo from the photos app, a Pages document from within the Pages app - and so on. Each app that allows for emailing of the files will have some sort of action icon - an arrow icon many times - or a Share button - that you can tap after selecting the file and that will give you the option to email.

Finally...there is a better way of doing this..even though not exactly like how we do in computers..

Just down the free app - Phone Drive from app store. This app is more or less what I expected to access my computer but has this additional feature as well. You can imports files from email or computer into this app. Then we can directly select multiple files and send an email at once.

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Hello

I use iPad Mail app and have Lotus notes email system.

Phone Drive app looks ok and you can email multiple docs.

But when I reaceice mail with email, I would like to save it (works), start to edit (works for example quickoffice) but I can't reply with new attachment. This last is standard feature in normal post clients and quite often used when for example commenting docs.

Also ipad mail program should have ability to put new attachments to reply post.

For new mail it works from multiple programs (quickoffice, shareplus, filebrowser, iworks..)

I guess Apple should update mail app with these small enchancements?

I stopped using my Ipad for biz purpouses just because this. I just updated it to IO6, and is hard to believe but still not possible to attach 2 files to one mail (at list in a "normal" way). My thought is that Apple doesn't want to canibalize their laptop market.

Mr apple, you won; i bought a laptop, and Im gona keep leaving my iPad is now in my bathroom.

An unhappy customer.

Hey Golder Sword; let me know how you face a situation like this:

I received an email from my boss, asking for 3 files (Two PDF and one XCEL, that i have in my Dropbox)

The email has in copy 8 people, and couple of question that I should answer.

Tipical biz email.

Let me know HOW do you answer this in your iPad? How do you answer the email, with the text, copying to all people and attaching the 3 files?

Just terrible.

@U1PNS, goodreader has dropbox integration, so download your files from dropbox. Once they are in goodreader, click [actions], select your files then click [email]. You can send files "as is" or "flattened" so that anything you did on the file, such as annotate or sign, will be preserved. It will open up an email message with the files attached.

Copy whoever, answer whatever, hit [send]. And you are done! And if you have evernote, you can bcc yourself and have a record that is easily searchable. And can be accessed from any device with internet access.

I have been using goodreader since I got the first generation ipad. Well worth it.

Golder Sword, please, read again my question. If i do it like you suggest, I loss all the recipients in the mail. I just need to answer an email, with a bunch of people in copy, and then attach the files. I mean, a typical /normal operation in biz environment!!! And there is no way to doit in the iPad! 😟

I read your post. You just gotta think a little and you will see the solution. It will just take an extra step where you can't be lazy.

Two ways to do it:

1. Copy your recipients, then do what I suggested, then paste the recipients in the new mail. Plus if it is normal business, I would think you would already have these people plus their emails in your contact list. And you could always add them individually.

2. Do what I suggested, select all to copy the attachments in the email body, then go back to your email and reply after pasting the attachments and answering whatever you gotta do.

I know it works. I made sure on both my ipad and iphone before I posted. But you need to do what you are comfortable and willing to do.

Why not try it by sending something to yourself to see if it actually works or not first?

Yet another way, is to put your files in Evernote perhaps in a shared work folder. Then you can just email a link to it with your reply.

So it is not no way. Those are a few that actually do work.

But, you can always wait until you are back at your desk.

Hi

I wiuld say that sending link sounds good, but if you send email for example inside company, you don't want to use external address link? Allthough many people use dropbox for this and email should not used to transfer large files.

I agree with u1. I get hundreds of emails a day and feel it is very inconvenient to use either iPad or iPhone for business emails. I have the same problem, email from headquarters cc ing 20 staff some of which I don't know. In my PC I would just hit the reply button and that would take care of to and cc. So it's actually not realistic to insert names one by one Because not all would be in my address book or if they are corporate emails I still would have to remember all of them. Therefore it is crucial to be able to reply to all And directly attach files. Many files I have to share with colleagues are sent by other people and are therefore attached in other emails. I don't send photos in my business emails, I just need to be able to copy files from other emails and then paste them into a 'reply all' email. Hope this makes sense!!

Khchuoi, you are right. It is a nightmare and so anoying when you start to fight against i-don-know-what apple fears.

Mr. Apple, I think you should look for a more creative ways to protect your computer market.

Forbidding and srinking users freedom is the wrong way. As a customer I apreciate the design, usability and the power of the devices, but if you keep this way, many people is gonna keep their iPad in the bathroom, as me, as an simple ebook. Common, please, create a full email application, with file browsing, and so...

Totally agreed with U1 PNS.

Leisure good, Biz bad!!!

I am very disappoint with iOS6, it took such a long time for development and now you can only add "video" in email. It is like wow!!!! that they had created a new Ironman Suit Mark Ten. lolz

By the way, FB integration is trailing behind others.... you cannot "tag" while adding a status update