How To Text An Email On iPhone Or Email A Text In 2026

What to Know

Before we walk through the guides for email-to-text and text-to-email, it’s important to note that there may be carrier restrictions.

For instance, AT&T is eliminating this service as of June 2025 while other carriers such as Verizon still offer the feature but provide a method to turn off receiving emails via text. Additionally, some carriers may restrict automated or scheduled email-to-text options.

If you run into problems, confirm that your carrier offers the feature or simply use the alternative methods explained below.

How to Forward or Send an Email to a Text on iPhone

When you receive an email that you want to share immediately, you might forward it via text message so that your recipient sees it right away. Or perhaps you have an email that you want to send to yourself using Messages.

Here are several ways to forward or send an email to a text using your iPhone.

Forward an Email to Text

To use this first method, make sure that you have the recipient’s phone number and their carrier’s gateway domain.

📌 As an example, if the phone number is 555-123-4567 and the carrier is U.S. Cellular, the address would be 5551234567@email.uscc.net for SMS or 5551234567@mms.uscc.net for MMS. Visit the carrier’s website for the correct gateway domain.

Open the email and follow the steps below:

Tap the Reply button (arrow) at the bottom.
Choose Forward.
Enter the email address in the To field and tap Return.

Send the email and it should arrive as a text message to your recipient.

💡 Tip: You can use the same process to send a new email to a text message on iPhone. Simply compose a new email, enter the gateway address, add the message body, and send.

Copy and Paste an Email to Text

If you’re unable to use the method above, you can also share the contents of an email via text message using copy and paste. This works best for text-based emails without images.

Open the email and follow these steps:

Long-press (tap and hold) the text in the email body.
Choose Select All and then Copy in the floating toolbar.
Open Messages and select the conversation.
Long-press inside the Message field and pick Paste.

You should then see the content from the email in the text message and can tap Send when ready.

Screenshot an Email to Text

Another way to share email content via text on iPhone is by capturing and sending a screenshot of the email. This method works well if the email contains images.

Open the email and follow the steps below:

For an iPhone with Face ID, press and release the side button and volume up button simultaneously. For an iPhone with a Home button, press and release the side button and Home button simultaneously.
When you hear the camera sound, you should see a thumbnail of the screenshot in the lower left corner.
Do one of the following:
- Tap the thumbnail and use the Share button to send the image via text message.
- Open the screenshot in Photos and use the Share button to send it via text message.
- Open the conversation in Messages, tap the plus sign in the lower left, pick Photos, and select the screenshot.

Send the text message with the email screenshot.

Attach an Email to a Text

If you prefer to send the email in its entirety as a text message, you can save it to the Files app on iPhone and attach it to a text.

Open the email and do the following:

Tap the three dots in the top-right corner of the message to open the actions menu.
Choose Print.
On the Print Options screen, tap the Share button at the top.

Pick Save to Files.
Select a location and tap Save.
Open the file you just saved.
Tap the Share button at the bottom to send the email via text message.

Tap the Share button at the bottom to send the email via text message

📌 Note that this sends the file as a PDF.

How to Forward or Send a Text to Email on iPhone

Maybe you need to do the opposite and forward or send a text message as an email on iPhone. You have a couple of ways to do this.

Forward a Text to an Email Address

To begin, make sure you have the email address for the recipient. Then, follow the steps below.

Open the conversation in Messages.
Long-press the text message and choose More.
Mark any additional messages in the conversation you want to include.
Tap the Forward button (arrow).
Enter the email address in the To field and tap Return.
Send the message.

💡 Tip: You can use the same process to send a new text message to an email address on iPhone. Simply compose a new text message, enter the email address, add your message, and send.

Screenshot a Text to an Email Address

Like forwarding or sending an email to text, you can take a screenshot of the text message and send it via email. This is ideal for capturing the date and time stamps if needed.

Capture a screenshot of the text message. You can use Steps 1 and 2 in the earlier section if needed.
Do one of the following:
- Tap the thumbnail and use the Share button to send the image via email.
- Open the screenshot in Photos and use the Share button to send it via email.
- Compose an email in Mail, long-press in the email body, pick Insert Photo or Video in the floating toolbar, and select the screenshot.

Send the message.

Export or Email Text Messages from iPhone with Dates and Times

While it’s easy to save an email as a file on iPhone, it’s not quite as simple to save a text message. One way to capture a text conversation is to take a screenshot of it. However, if it’s a lengthy conversation or needed for legal purposes, numerous images can be inconvenient.

The easiest way to export text messages from iPhone to email is using your computer. If you own a Mac and sync the Messages app, you can create a PDF file of a text conversation with dates and times.

Open Messages on Mac to the conversation.
Select File → Print in the menu bar.
Optionally adjust the pages you want to save to the file.
Use the PDF drop-down menu at the bottom to choose Save to PDF.
Name the file, pick a location, and click Save.

You can then access the file and send it as an email attachment when needed.

If you don’t have a Mac, want to export texts in a particular format, or need to send all text messages from iPhone to email, you can consider a third-party app. You’ll find tools such as iMazing, AnyTrans, Decipher TextMessage, and more that provide features for exporting and saving text messages to a file.

💡 Tip: For more help managing emails on your device, see our detailed guides on how to change the default email app, find and delete unsent messages, and turn off categories in iPhone Mail.

Manage Bulk Emails More Efficiently with Clean Email

If your inbox starts filling up with large numbers of similar emails, reviewing and handling them one by one can quickly become inefficient. Most email apps don’t offer strong bulk-processing capabilities, which makes it harder to deal with recurring or high-volume messages at scale.

Clean Email helps by organizing emails into groups based on common attributes, allowing you to review, sort, and manage large sets of messages at once. Instead of opening individual emails, you can quickly identify patterns and take action on entire groups in a few steps.