iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

Darling, You Send Me (E-Mail)

So now that you’re a whiz at reading and organizing incoming messages, let’s look at how to use your iPhone to send e-mail.

Makin’ messages

Several subspecies of messages are available: pure text, text with a photo, a partially finished message (a draft) that you want to save and complete later, a reply to an incoming message, and a message you want to forward to someone else. The following sections examine these subsets one at a time.

Sending an all-text message

To compose a new e-mail message, tap Mail on the Home screen to open the Mailboxes screen (refer to Figure 12-6) or whichever screen was up when you last left the app.

Now, to create a new message, follow these steps:

1. Tap the new message icon (refer to Figure 12-8), in the lower-right corner of the screen.

The icon appears on all the Mail screens, so don’t worry if you’re not at the main Mailboxes screen. A screen like the one shown in Figure 12-15 appears.

2. Enter the names or e-mail addresses of the recipients in one of the following ways:

• Type the names or e-mail addresses of the recipients in the To field.

• Tap the microphone icon on the virtual keyboard to dictate the names or e-mail addresses of the recipients in the To field.

• Tap the + button to the right of the To field to select a contact or contacts from your iPhone’s address book.

You can rearrange names in the address ...