how to forward text message to email address

I had this happen to me too, I turned off iMessage

Apparently iMessage links your phone number and your email address together so when you want to forward a text message from your phone to an email address (if both are linked together via iMessage), it sends it back to your phone as a text message instead of to your email account where you wanted it to go.

Apple ***** !!

They put in so many garbage features which do something you don't want to do because they believe they know better what we want to do.

I have an iPhone (company issue) and an Android (personal).

Between the two, the Android is far superior. And more logical. Given a choice, I would dump the iPhone.

You can't directly email from within the messaging app. If you tap and hold on a text you can then copy it, switch to the email app and then paste it into an email to send.

Tap and hold the message. Then choose "More ..." from the pop-up. Then click the right-facing arrow (forward arrow) in the lower right. Type the email address in the "To" field on top and send the message.

RajendraGursahaney, your response makes no sense.

RajendraGursahaney wrote:

... so when you want to forward a text message from your phone to an email address (if both are linked together via iMessage), it sends it back to your phone as a text message

You are talking about forwarding an iMessage from your iPhone to an email address. Forwarding an iMessage will, of course, result in an iMessage, not an email! (If you happen to forward an iMessage to a non-Apple cellular telephone, it would show up there as an SMS text message.)

An email address used in an iMessage context does not imply the person would receive the message using email. It is simply another way of addressing the iMessage recipient.

If you wish to send an iMessage to an email account, as forwarding an iMessage to an email service is not possible, find some other method, such as taking screen shots of the iMessage and sending those via email.

Sberman

Unfortunately I don't agree. It used to work before. Let me explain.

My work colleagues mostly communicate with me via email. I maintain all emails related to a topic in an outlook folder, one folder per topic.

Once in a while they will communicate via text message.

Previously I used to forward the text message from my iPhone to my work email address (it used to arrive as an attachment) and then when received, I would file that away in the same folder to maintain continuity of the dialog.

That capability is now lost.

There was a time when I could hold down a text message, More..., forward (right pointing arrow) and in the address box that came up, if I entered my full email address it got transmitted to my email account.

Now, irrespective whether I enter my phone number or my email address it gets transmitted to my iMessage.

On an Android, if you forward a message to your email account, it goes to your email as an attachment. If you forward to your phone number, it goes to your message account as it should.

PTKLamar wrote:

Simply tap and hold the text message, click more, then the forward arrow then type in your forwarding email address.

This is incorrect, as Michael Black and I laboriously explain above.

I used to be able to do it until I updated to 11.0.3. Now I can no longer forward a text as an email on the device that I updated (iPhone 7). I can still forward text messages via email using the way described above email when I use my iPad because I refused to update it. I don't want this device screwed up like my iPhone. I wish I had never downloaded the new update to my phone.

You might look into using a Google Voice number. It can universally be used for voice, email, and texts. In this case, Google isn't trying to make more money by preventing you from using other platforms.

i have an iPhone 6s+ and have been forwarding text messages that I want to save to my yahoo email address forever. I did just as what was stated above. Press and hold what I wanted to send. Check all the messages I wanted to send, typed in my email and his the send arrow. It worked perfectly until 6 days ago when it stopped sending them! This is quite frustrating and I am looking for a fix to something I used to do daily. Thanks

Simply tap and hold the text message, click more, then the forward arrow then type in your forwarding email address.

Simply tap and hold the text message, click more, then the forward arrow then type in your forwarding email address.

Copy the text to Notes. Then, you can send to any email address.

Wow. Copying to Notes and sending as an email WORKS. Thank you so much. I've never had this problem before today and don't know what Apple changed.