How to Send a Photo or Image With iPhone Mail

It’s easy to share photos using the iPhone Mail app. You can send one or a handful of pictures with only a few taps. Emailing photos on your iPhone is convenient because the Mail app is part of the iOS operating system. Using the Mail app is quicker than using other file transfer methods such as cloud storage services. Here’s how to insert a photo (or video) into an email using iPhone Mail or iPad Mail:

How to Send a Photo or Image With the Photos App

Another way to send photos from your iPhone is to start in the Photos app. This might be a more straightforward method if you send lots of photos and videos.

Tips for Sending Photos From Your iPhone

If you don’t see the photos you want to email in the Photos app, they might be hidden from the current view. Tap the previous screen arrow or the Albums link at the bottom to find all your photo albums, one of which includes the image. If the photo you want to email isn’t stored on your phone, save it to Photos first, which you can do in most apps by holding your finger on the image and selecting Save Image. Other apps might have a specific menu for downloading photos and videos to your iPhone. To email photos from your iPhone that you took with a camera, transfer them to your phone first. iPhone doesn’t let you send photos that you deleted. To do that, recover them from the deleted folder and then email them using either method described in this article.