How to add an image to your email signature on the iPhone or Office365 Outlook Web App

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I have received a lot of questions recently about how to add images to email signatures on the iPhone and the Outlook Web App.   So, I figured I would use this week's blog to show you how you can accomplish this:

 

Outlook Web App:

 

-There may be other ways to do this, but this is the way I stumbled upon.

 

(1) First, you need to be able to access the image you want to add from a web browser.  Since we all have websites, it should be easy enough to upload you picture to your images directory of your website.   Once uploaded, make sure you can view the image by using a web browser to navigate to the image's URL.   My test image has been placed at http://www.binkleyit.com/images/eatup.png

 

This is what the image looks like:

 

 

 

(2) From within your web browser, right click on the image and choose COPY

(3) Log into your Outlook Web App.  The default URL is https://outlook.office365.com.  Navigate to the Gear Icon | Options | Settings

 

(3) Within the email signature text area, press CTRL+V to copy the image into your email signature:

 

 

(4) Check the box the reads 'Automatically include my signature on messages I send' and then click the SAVE button and you should be good to go!

 

 

(5) Now when you create a new email using the Outlook Web App, your signature should appear:

 

 

 

 

iPhone:
- I tested this on an iPhone 5 and iPad2, both running iOS7.

(1) Make sure your email account is already set up on your iPhone, and then email yourself the image you are wanting to use for your signature.


(2) On your iPhone, find the email you just sent yourself.   It should contain the image.  Initiate an email forward of this email.   You won't be sending it to anyone.  Scroll down the email until you see your image.   Press the screen until you can choose SELECT to select the image:

 

Once the image is selected, choose COPY:

 

 

Once the image is copied, navigate to SETTING | Mail, Contacts, Calendars | SIGNATURE

 

If you have multiple email accounts, you may want to change the Signature setting from ALL ACCOUNTS to PER ACCOUNT

 

 

Scroll to the account you wish to set up the new signature.   Add the appropriate text information and then press the screen until you receive the option to PASTE the copied picture into the signature:

 

 

The image should get pasted into the signature:

 

 

 

 

 

(3) Navigate back to your email and create a new email to verify your signature is appearing correctly:

 

 

 

That's it!  Not too difficult, but if you have any problems or questions contact Binkley IT Consulting.  We can help.