Apply Basic Formatting in Your iOS Mail Signature

To add a basic signature—including boldface, italics, and underline formatting—to the text of your iOS Mail email signature: The next time you write an email, your formatted signature appears at the end of it automatically.

Advanced Settings: Create a More Elaborate Signature

If you want a signature with a little more flair—or at least some font choices—you need to go to a different iOS app: Pages. The Pages app is a free download from the App Store. Use its advanced formatting capabilities to add color, change the font size and type, and add links. Then, copy it to the Signature settings. Here’s how:

Why Use Formatting in Your Signature?

The text of your email signature may be as short as your name. However, it could also contain your title, contact information, company name, or a favorite quotation. In Settings, you can format the signature to contain bold, italics, and underlines—a sparse selection of rich text features. Using all of them in one signature may be a bit much, but the judicious application of rich text features can be beneficial. For signatures used in iOS Mail on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, adding that kind of formatting is easy.