How To Email Sms Messages From Iphone

A lot of the apps on your iPhone can integrate with one another, although the manner for doing so might not be obvious. For example, you might be wondering how to email a text message on your iPhone if you would like to use the Message app to send a message to an email account.

Your iPhone has a lot of different ways for you to share information with other people. Whether you want to make a phone call, send a text message, write an email or make a video call, all of these things can be accomplished rather easily on the device.

But when you want to transfer information from one medium to another, such as sending a text message in an email, then method for doing so is not always immediately obvious. Fortunately there are a few different options for sending text messages as emails on your iPhone.

How to Forward a Text to Email on an iPhone

Open Messages.
Find the text to forward.
Tap and hold on the text, then choose More.
Touch the forward icon.
Enter the email address, then tap Send.

Our article continues below with additional information on sending text to email on an iPhone, including pictures of these steps.

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There are actually three different ways to do this with the tools available to you on a default iPhone. Which option is best for you will depend on your situation. You can see all three of the options below. Note that the last two methods will assume that you already have an email account set up on your iPhone. If not, then you can follow the instructions in this article to add an email address to your device.

How to Email a Text Message as a Text File

Step 1: Open the Messages app.

Step 2: Tap and hold the text message that you want to email, then touch the More option.

Step 3: Touch the Forward icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

touch the forward icon at the bottom-right of the screen

Step 4: Type the email address into the field at the top of the screen, then touch Send above the keyboard.

how to send a text message as an email on the iphone

How to Copy the Text Message and Paste it Into an Email

In this section we are simply going to copy from the text message and paste the copied text into an email message.

Step 1: Open the Messages app.

Step 2: Tap and hold the text message that you want to share, then touch the Copy option.

Step 3: Press the Home button under your iPhone screen, then launch the Mail app and select the email account from which you want to send the email.

Step 4: Touch the Compose icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

touch the compose button at the bottom-right of the screen

Step 5: Type the email address into the To field at the top of the screen, tap and hold inside the body field, then select the Paste option. You can then enter a subject and send the email.

How to Take a Screenshot of the Text Message and Email It

This option can be a little more convenient when you are dealing with an entire text message conversation rather than a single text message.

Step 1: Open the Messages app.

Step 2: Browse to the text message that you want to email.

Step 3: Press and hold the Home button under your screen, then press the Power button at the top of the device while still holding the Home button.

Note that you need to press the Power button quickly after you start holding the Home button, or Siri will launch. There will be a white flash that indicates that the screenshot has been taken.

On newer iPhone models you can take a screen shot by pressing the Power button and the Volume Up button at the same time.

Step 4: Press the Home button under your screen to return to your Home screen, then launch the Mail app.

Step 5: Open the email account from which you want to send the message, then touch the Compose icon at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Step 6: Enter the email address into the To field, enter a subject for the email, then tap and hold inside the body of the email message and select the Insert Photo or Video option.

Step 7: Select the Camera Roll.

Step 8: Select the screenshot image that you just made, then touch the Choose button at the bottom-right of the screen.

Step 9: Touch the Send button at the top right of the screen to send your email address with the screenshot image.

Do you want an easy way to share a text message with a different person? Learn how to forward a text message on the iPhone.

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Matthew Burleigh has been writing tech tutorials since 2008. His writing has appeared on dozens of different websites and been read over 50 million times.

After receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites.

His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well.

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