How to Add an Email Signature on iPhone

Set an email signature on iPhone in the Mail app, and a workaround for keeping a formatted HTML signature with your photo and links.

Updated 4 min read By CodingEagles
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To set an email signature on iPhone, open Settings → Apps → Mail → Signature and enter your signature. The built-in field is plain text, so for a formatted signature with your photo and links, use the copy-paste workaround below. Here is both.

The basic, plain-text signature

  1. Open Settings on your iPhone.
  2. Scroll to Mail (on newer iOS it is under Apps → Mail).
  3. Tap Signature.
  4. Choose All Accounts or Per Account, then type your signature.
  5. Leave the screen, it saves automatically.

This gives you a simple text signature, which is fine for many people.

Keeping a formatted signature (workaround)

The signature field will hold formatting if you paste rich content into it:

  1. In the signature generator, build your signature and press Copy signature, or email it to yourself from a computer.
  2. On the iPhone, open that email, then press and hold to select the signature and tap Copy.
  3. Go to Settings → Mail → Signature, clear the field, then press and hold and tap Paste.
  4. The formatted signature, with its links, is retained even though the editor looks plain.

Send yourself a test email to confirm it looks right.

A note on images

Photos and logos load from a public web address, so make sure the image URL you used in the generator is publicly accessible. Some mobile setups display images less reliably than desktop, so a clean text-and-links signature is often the safest choice for phones.

To build yours, open the email signature generator.

Frequently asked questions

Why is the iPhone signature plain text only?
The built-in signature field in iPhone Mail settings is designed for plain text, so it will not keep a layout, colours or links on its own. The workaround is to paste a formatted signature into the field, which Mail can retain even though the editor itself looks plain.
How do I keep the formatting when I paste on iPhone?
Email the finished signature to yourself, open it on the iPhone, select and copy the signature, then paste it into the signature field in Settings → Mail → Signature. Pasting rich content this way preserves the formatting better than typing it.
Does the Gmail app on iPhone use this signature?
No. The Gmail app keeps its own mobile signature, separate from iPhone Mail. For Gmail on iPhone, set the mobile signature inside the Gmail app's settings; for formatted Gmail signatures, the web version is more reliable.

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