How to Print an Email on iPhone or iPad

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Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

Last Updated: August 26, 2018 Tested

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This wikiHow teaches you how to print an email message from your iPhone or iPad’s Mail app.

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Open the Mail app on your iPhone or iPad. It’s the blue icon with a white envelope inside. You’ll usually find it on the home screen.
- If you haven’t yet set up your iPhone or iPad to print, see Print from Your iPhone to get started.
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It’s the fourth icon at the bottom of the screen. A menu will expand.
It’s near the bottom of the menu.
If you have set up your iPhone or iPad to use a different printer, select that printer instead.
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Select the number of copies and page range.
- To print more than one copy of the message, tap the + next to “1 Copy” until you see the number of copies you want (e.g. "3 Copies").
- If you don’t want to print every page in the message, tap All Pages, then select the number of pages to print.
It’s at the top-right corner of the screen. The email message will be sent to the selected printer.

Join the Discussion...

How do you print easily from an iPhone?

WikiBandicootTrader459

Anybody know how to print from an iPhone with AirPrint? I'd like to print some photos but I'm also curious if you can print text messages?

Luigi Oppido
Computer & Tech Specialist

Printing from a phone is as easy as hitting the print button in the application you’re in! Usually, the print feature is found in the “share” location. If you can share the item you’re looking at, you usually can print it. The other side is having a compatible printer. Most printers from the last 10 years are wifi enabled or network-enabled printers. If your printer is on the wifi, you should be able to print directly to it.

Printing text messages is a different thing. Apple's official process is to screenshot your text message screen and then print each individual photo from your photos app. This is clunky and can take a long time if you have a long string. Ideally, you’d want to use third-party software like iMazing or FonePaw. These sometimes-paid-sometimes-free 3rd party pieces of software will extract entire text message strings (sometimes 10 or 100 pages) and save them in one PDF file you can then export, email, save, and print.