Hi Gordon,
Multiple signatures for your different email accounts under iOS 5 are still not
supported, but I can suggest two different work-arounds.
First, iOS 5 supports the creation of keyboard shortcuts. If you go to
Settings > General > Keyboard there's a heading for "Shortcuts". The first
entry under "Shortcuts" gives an example: "omw" for "On my way!" If you double
tap on this sample entry, you'll view the detailed shortcut screen for the
example, with text fields for the phrase "On my way!" and for the shortcut
assignment "omw". There's also a description "Create a shortcut that will
automatically expand into the word or phrase as you type". You can make any
editing changes in the text fields for the shortcut and phrase, then double tap
the "Save" button in the top right corner. Or, you can double tap the
"Keyboard, back button" at the top left corner of the screen to return to the
keyboard settings screen.
Just after the sample "omw" shortcut is the "Add New Shortcut" button, which is
also the last element on the screen. So you can always navigate to it with a
four finger tap on the bottom half of the screen. Double tap on this button,
then type in the phrase you want to shortcut in the text field. Then flick
right when you're done to type in the text for your shortcut abbreviation.
Double tap the "Save" button in the top right corner.
So the way this could work is that you might set up your basic signature in
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Signature (where the default says "Sent
from my iPhone"), and then customize each additional line you'd like to add by
typing your shortcut.
The main drawback of this method is that you still have to type one shortcut
per line of expanded text.
The other option that I use is to use TextExpander Touch ($4.99 by
SmileOnMyMac) to expand text. You can define multi-line snippets in this app,
and download the basic predefined snippet definitions. Then, if you type
"ddate" ("date" with an added "d" at the beginning), it will expand to the
current date, and in the format that you set up. You could have a multiline
signature that you define as "ssig1" (starting with double letters for you
snippet shortcut definitions is good for avoiding confusion with real words).
This lets you customize everything. The main drawback is that iOS apps like
Mail are sandboxed, so you would have to double tap the button to copy to
clipboard, then use the App Switcher to switch to mail, and then paste. Or,
you could compose mail in TextExpander and send it out directly from there, but
that doesn't let you read through your mail and reply.
I'll just note that TextExpander's snippets for HTML and CSS programming are
really clever, and that most good notes, Twitter, and messenging apps will
support TextExpander so you can compose using your custom-defined snippets
within those apps. As for HTML coding, the control sequences will expand and
leave your insertion point between the control elements if you use the
TextExpander HTML snippets. So you don't have to type out starting and closing
elements by hand.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:29 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have one small gripe regarding iOS5.1 and I'm wondering whether it's me
> just missing something. I do not see a way to have a different signature set
> for each mail account on iOS5. Again this could be user error, and I hope it
> is. But it does seem strange to me.
>
> I'm currently relying on my iPHONE 4S FOR ALL MY NEEDS, AND IT WOULD BE
> HELPFUL IF ONE COULD USE MULTIPLE SIGNATURES.
>
> GORDON
>
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