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    Mail User Guide

    • Welcome
    • What’s new in Mail
    • Get started
    • Switch to Mail
      • Add email accounts
      • Use a custom email domain
      • Remove or temporarily turn off email accounts
      • Send an email
      • Format text in emails
      • Send emails to groups
      • Unsend emails with Undo Send
      • Redirect emails
      • Set your From or Reply to email address
      • Create and use email signatures
      • Read emails
      • Reply to, forward, or follow up on emails
      • Use Remind Me to come back to emails later
      • View email conversations
      • Automatically categorize incoming email
      • Search for emails
      • Filter emails
      • Sort emails
      • Show emails from VIP senders
      • Archive emails
      • Print emails
      • View deleted emails
      • Use information found in Mail in other apps
      • Add attachments to emails
      • View, save, or delete email attachments
      • Mark up email attachments
      • Send large attachments
      • Create or delete mailboxes
      • Use favorite mailboxes
      • Use Smart Mailboxes
      • Move or copy emails
      • Move or copy mailboxes
      • Import or export mailboxes
      • Block or unblock senders
      • Unsubscribe from mailing lists
      • Reduce junk mail
      • Use Mail Privacy Protection
      • Sign or encrypt emails
      • Use Hide My Email
      • Use email aliases
      • Change settings
      • Use Focus filters
      • Manage notifications
      • Use Mail extensions
      • Use column layout
      • Use tabs
      • Use Mail full screen
      • Use rules to manage emails you receive
      • Automate Mail tasks
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Copyright and trademarks

    Mark up email attachments in Mail on Mac

    When you’re writing a message and add an image or PDF document, you can use Markup to write or draw on the attachment, rotate or crop it, or add shapes or a signature to it.

    An attachment with the Markup toolbar across the top.

    Tip: You can use the Markup tools to add your own drawing directly to your message. Control-click anywhere in the body of your message, then choose Insert Drawing.

    Open Mail for me

    1. Go to the Mail app on your Mac.

    2. Move the pointer over an image or PDF you added to your message.

    3. Click the Action pop-up menu that appears in the upper-right corner of the attachment, then choose Markup.

      If the pop-up menu isn’t shown, you may need to enable Markup. Choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click General in the sidebar (you may need to scroll down). Click Login Items & Extensions, go to Extensions, then click By Category. Click the Info button next to Actions and turn on Markup.

      Open Login Items & Extensions settings for me

    4. Use the tools to mark up the image or PDF.

      To adjust the size of your markup items, move the pointer near the edges, then drag the blue handles.

      To duplicate any shape, text, or signature, press and hold the Option key while you drag an item; use the yellow guides to align the items.

      Tool

      Description

      Sketch

      Sketch a shape using a single stroke.

      If your drawing is recognized as a standard shape, it’s replaced by that shape; to use your drawing instead, choose it from the palette that’s shown.

      Draw

      Draw a shape using a single stroke. Press your finger more firmly on the trackpad to draw with a heavier, darker line.

      This tool appears only on Mac computers with a Force Touch trackpad.

      Shapes

      Click a shape, then drag it where you want. To resize the shape, use the blue handles. If it has green handles, use them to alter the shape.

      You can zoom and highlight shapes using these tools:

      • Highlight : Drag the highlight where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles.

      • Zoom : Drag the lens where you want. To increase or decrease the zoom, drag the green handle; drag the blue handle to change the lens size.

      Text

      Type your text, then drag the text box where you want.

      Highlight Selection

      Highlight selected text in a PDF.

      Sign

      If signatures are listed, click one, then drag it where you want. To resize it, use the blue handles.

      To create a new signature, see Fill out and sign PDF forms in Preview on Mac.

      Shape Style

      Change the thickness and type of lines used in a shape, and add a shadow.

      Border Color

      Change the color of the lines used in a shape.

      Fill Color

      Change the color that’s used inside a shape.

      Text Style

      Change the font or the font style and color.

      Rotate Left or Rotate Right

      Click the Rotate Left tool to rotate the item to the left. Continue clicking to keep rotating.

      To rotate the item to the right, press and hold the Option key, then click the Rotate Right tool until you’re done rotating the item.

      Crop

      Hide part of an item. Drag the corner handles until just the area you want to keep is shown within the frame’s border. You can also drag the frame to reposition it. When you’re ready, click Crop.

      Image Description

      Enter, view, or edit a description of an image. (The tool is highlighted when an image has a description.)

      Image descriptions can be read by screen readers and are useful for anyone who has difficulty seeing images online. For example, if you use VoiceOver, the built-in screen reader on Mac, you can press the VoiceOver command VO-Shift-L to hear a description of the image in the VoiceOver cursor.

      Form Fill

      Type your text in the fields in a PDF form.

      Annotate , ,

      Annotate the item by sketching or drawing on it using your nearby iPhone or iPad . If both devices are nearby, click Annotate , then choose a device. The tool may appear highlighted to show your device is connected. To disconnect your device without using it, click the tool again.

      Note: To use your nearby iPhone or iPad to sign or annotate items, it must meet Continuity system requirements. See the Apple Support article System requirements for Continuity features on Apple devices.

    5. When you’re finished, click Done.

      You can change or add annotations until you send your message. Once sent, your annotations become part of the image or PDF, and you and your recipients can’t modify them.

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