If I were to send you an email from my iPhone, you’d see something like this:
People often ask me how I managed to create an email signature in italics. Here’s how you can do so.
To create a signature for your email – to change it from the stock Sent from my iPhone – go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Scroll down to the end of the Mail section, where you’ll see Signature. Tap that. You’ll see something like this:
As you can see, you can choose to set the same signature for all your accounts, or have a separate one for each account. I chose the latter.
The signature field lets you type anything you want. But you’ll notice that, when you type in that field, there’s no way to set italics or bold text; and you can’t create links.
What you need to do is create a rich text signature in your email program, as the text of an email, and then email it to yourself. On your iOS device, copy the text you want to use as a signature, go to the Signature settings, and paste it in the field.
If you use Apple Mail, and you’ve set your messages to be plain text, you can change this for one message by creating a new message and choosing Format > Make Rich Text. You can now add any formatting you want, including HTML links.
Don’t overdo it though; too much cruft in an email signature is annoying. I find it useful to simply have mine in italics, so it stands out a bit. And since I am all thumbs – or dictate – on my iPhone, and may reply to a message in a hurry, it may be brief or contain typos, so my signature apologizes for that in advance.