How to Email Yourself on iPhone, Gmail and Outlook

How to email yourself: start a new email, type your own address in the To field, write your note and tap Send. It works the same in Apple Mail, Gmail, Outlook, iCloud Mail and every other email app, and the message lands in your inbox like any other email. If you email yourself every day, an app that fills in your address for you turns it into one tap.

How to send an email to yourself, step by step

The steps are the same everywhere: new message, your own address in To, Send. Here is where the buttons are in the apps people use most.

On iPhone or iPad (Mail app)

1. Open the Mail app and tap the compose button (the square with a pencil).
2. Type your own email address in To. After the first time, Mail suggests it as you type.
3. Add a subject so you can find it later, write your note and tap Send.

In Gmail

1. Tap Compose in the Gmail app, or click it on gmail.com.
2. Put your own Gmail address in To.
3. Write the message and tap Send. It shows up in your Inbox, with "me" as the sender, and in Sent.

In Outlook

1. Tap New mail (or New email) in the Outlook app, or on outlook.com.
2. Enter your own address in To, write your note and tap Send.
3. In the Outlook app for iPhone and Android, an email you send to the same address you send from shows Note to Self as the sender, so it is easy to spot in your inbox.

On a Mac

1. Open Mail on your Mac and press Command+N.
2. Type your address in To, write the message and click Send.

The one-tap way on iPhone

Typing your own address every time gets old fast. Email Me is built for exactly this: you set your address once, then:

1. Open Email Me. It opens ready to type.
2. Write, dictate or record your note.
3. Tap Send. It arrives in your inbox.

You can also send things to yourself without opening the app:

• Share sheet: in Safari, Photos or Files, tap Share and pick Email Me.
• Siri: say "Email Me a note" and dictate it.
• Widgets and Apple Watch: start a note from your Home Screen or your wrist.

Have a work address and a personal one? Add both, then press and hold the send button to pick where a note goes.

Why people email themselves

Your inbox is the one place you check every day on every device, so an email to yourself is a to-do list, notepad and file transfer in one:

• Save a link or article to read later
• Move a photo, PDF or screenshot from your phone to your computer
• Write down a reminder or an idea before you forget it
• Keep a voice note, with its transcript, where you can search it

Each of these has its own step by step guide in the list at the end of this page.

If the email to yourself doesn't arrive

1. Look in Spam or Junk, and in Sent to confirm it went out.
2. Search your inbox for the subject: some apps tuck it into an existing conversation.
3. Check the address for typos. An app that stores your address once avoids this.
4. In Gmail, also check All Mail: a filter can skip the inbox for mail from your own address.

Guides for emailing yourself anything

• Photos and videos
• PDFs and documents
• Screenshots
• Links and bookmarks
• Reminders, without typing
• Voice notes
• A one-tap shortcut
• From a Home Screen widget
• From the share sheet
• With Siri
• From Apple Watch

14 minutes a day. 84 hours a year. That's the average time lost to slow, repetitive steps just to write a note to yourself. I built Email Me to fix that: open it, write, tap Send, done.

Manuel

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