Every time I send an email from my iPhone, the message includes the
footer "Sent from my iPhone" at the bottom. This seems silly to me,
and completely unnecessary. Can I change the footer so it’s more personal?
We agree—that footer seems like
the is saying “Look at me—I’m cool ‘cause I have an iPhone.” In 2008, that may
have been a reasonable assertion, but it’s not the case in 2013. Even more
importantly, our guess is that you generally don’t want people to know that
you’re sending from a mobile device, which is a good indication (for many
people) that you’re responding while away from home. And this is, in general,
information you don’t want to be sending out.
Of course, Apple wants everyone
to know that you have their flagship mobile device, so they configure the phone
to include the obligatory self-congratulatory message in the footer by default.
Luckily, that footer information is easy to change (and you should).
On your phone, run the Settings
app. Select the Mail, Contacts, Calendars option, and under the Mail section of
options, find the Signature option. If you’re running an early version of the
operating system (and if so, you should consider upgrading the operating system),
you’ll see an option to change your signature. If you’re running a later
version, you’ll see an option to select a signature for all accounts, or per
account (assuming you have more than one email account configured on the
phone). Select the appropriate option, and fill in a new signature, replacing
the default text.
You cannot specify a separate
signature for new messages as opposed to replies or forwarded messages, and you
can't have extra signatures that you can assign individually while writing the
email, like you can with Outlook or other email applications.
Certainly, take the time to
customize the signature. You won’t be advertising the fact that you’re replying
to emails from your phone (indicating that you are perhaps away from home) and
you won’t look like a clone of every other iPhone user!
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