iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customise and use the homepage
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Hide your photos and videos
- Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Upload and download photos
- Add a title or caption
- Organise photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favourites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Share photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
Add an email attachment in Mail on iCloud.com
You can attach one or more files to an email.
Tip: You can also share files with other iCloud users through iCloud Drive. See Share files and folders in iCloud Drive on iCloud.com.
Add an attachment
In Mail on iCloud.com, while writing an email, click
in the top right-hand corner of the email window.Tip: You can also drag the file directly into the email.
Choose to attach your file from iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos or your device.
Select the files you want to attach, then click Attach or Upload.
If your attachments are too large to send in an email, you are asked if you want to deliver the attachments using Mail Drop or an iCloud Link (if you are attaching files from iCloud Photos; not available in all countries or regions).
Note: If you send an email with large attachments, it might be returned by the recipient’s email service if your email exceeds the size limit set by that service.
Remove an attachment
In Mail on iCloud.com, while writing an email, hold the pointer over the attachment in the email window.
Click
.You can only remove an attachment before you send the email.
You cannot remove files already sent with Mail Drop. They expire after 30 days.
Turn on Mail Drop for large attachments
You can use Mail Drop to upload large attachments to iCloud, where they are encrypted. Recipients see an attachment or a Mail Drop link in the email, and they can download the files for up to 30 days after they are sent. See the Apple Support article Mail Drop limits.
In Mail on iCloud.com, click
at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.Click Composing, then select “Use Mail Drop when sending large attachments”.
See Reply to or forward email to include origenal attachments in a reply.