In case you are not aware, the Mail Drop feature as available on iPhone can be used to attach large size files to your Email Messages.
This allows you to bypass the maximum file upload size restrictions placed by most popular email clients like Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and other popular email clients.
Mail Drop supports images, videos, presentation files and all other file types and allows the recipients to download the large size attachments on any device.
Send Large Files from iPhone Using Mail Drop
The Mail Drop feature automatically kicks in, whenever the size of files being attached to an email message being sent from the Mail App on iPhone exceeds 20 MB, which is the maximum upload size allowed by most email service providers.
When you send large size files from iPhone using Mail Drop, the files are uploaded to Apple’s iCloud servers, where they remain available for download for a period of 30 days.
1. Attach Large Files to Email on iPhone Using Mail Drop
All that is required to send or attach large size Files to any email message on iPhone is to compose the new email Message and attach the File to your Email Message.
As mentioned above, the Mail Drop option gets automatically triggered, whenever the size of Files being attached to the Email Message exceeds 20 MB.
1. Open the Mail app on your iPhone > tap on Compose Mail icon.
2. On New Message screen, tap anywhere within the body of the Message and select Attach Files option in the menu that appears.
3. On the next screen, switch to Browse tab and select files located on iCloud Drive that you want to attach to your email message.
4. If the Size of attached file/files exceeds 20 MB, it will automatically trigger the Mail Drop option > select the Use Mail Drop option.
5. Wait for the selected files to be compressed and attached to your email message.
6. Once that is done, you can tap on the Send button to send the email message with large iCloud attachment to your recipient.
How Recipients Can Download Mail Drop Files
When recipients open your Email Message, they will see download links to attachments and will be able to download the attached files by tapping or clicking on the links.
If the attached files are images, your recipients will be able to see previews of the image attachments in the email message and other types of attachments will appear as links.
As mentioned above, Mail Drop attachments will be available on iCloud for a period of 30 days and can be downloaded by the recipients on any device.