Gmail Signature: How to create, change and edit email signature in Google Mail

Having an email signature is a customary way to let others know how to contact you. While you can skip writing a signature on personal emails, people you talk to professionally would expect it to be there.

Email signatures tend to include your name, title, company, email address, phone number, and even company logo.

There’s no need to create a signature from scratch every time you send an email. All email providers have the option to add your signature once and automatically display it on every email. Sometimes, you might be able to add more than one signature and switch between them depending on the context. Since Gmail dominates the email landscape, let’s see how to edit signature in Gmail and which Mac apps have the best Gmail support.

How to add a signature in Gmail

You can add Gmail signatures and change them at any time through the gmail.com website. 

Here’s how to change signature on Gmail: 

1. Log in to mail.google.com
2. Click on the gear icon > See all settings
3. Scroll down to Signature
4. Click “Create new” 
5. Give your signature a name > Create
6. Write and decorate the signature as needed
7. Choose signature defaults using the dropdowns below

While using Gmail online is the most popular way to check email, it’s far from the best one, lacking many features users would expect from a modern email client. If you’re using Gmail online, consider upgrading to Canary Mail. 

Canary Mail is a powerful, private, and secure email client for Mac. It offers strong encryption to make your communication inaccessible to third parties. It highlights important emails so they don’t get lost in your inbox. It allows you to delegate emails or set a reminder for them. It features natural-language searching and one-click unsubscribes from mailing lists. Finally, it lets you perform email actions in bulk. 

Recently, Canary Mail launched Copilot — a groundbreaking AI writing assistant that can draft complete emails based on your prompts. Now your workflow can be twice as fast. 

Changing email signatures in Canary Mail is easy: 

1. Open Settings (Command + ,) in Canary Mail 
2. Navigate to Signatures
3. Click the plus icon
4. Give your signature a name and create it using the text editor 

How to change your Gmail signature

If any information on your email signature needs to change (e.g. you got a promotion!), you can change email signature Gmail uses in a few clicks.

Here’s how to edit Gmail signatures: 

1. Visit mail.google.com
2. Go to settings
3. Scroll down to Signature
4. Select the pencil icon to edit the name of your signature
5. Select the signature and edit the text of the signature using the text editor
6. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page

At their core, email signatures are text snippets that get repeated in every email. What if you could call up other useful text snippets at will in any app on your Mac? You can do that with Rocket Typist. 

Rocket Typist is a great utility for supercharging your productivity. It’s a database of personalized text snippets that could be called up with custom keyboard shortcuts. 

For example, you could have a sales email template and have Rocket Typist automatically pull it up by typing “sales”. You can organize your collection of snippets in folders and edit them at any time. You can even use dynamic snippets that would include today’s date or current time. The applications are limitless! 

How to change your Gmail signature on iPhone or iPad

You can update Gmail signatures using your iPhone or iPad by using the Gmail app.

Here’s how to change signature in Gmail on mobile: 

1. Open the Gmail app
2. Go to menu > Settings
3. Tap on your email address
4. Select “Signature settings” 
5. Edit or add your signature

How to add an image to Gmail signatures

If possible, it’s best to avoid adding an image to your email signature. Signature images (often company logos) make emails heavier than they need to be without carrying any important information. 

Some companies, however, require their logos to be added to emails. So if you need to do it, Gmail gives you that option too: 

1. Go to mail.google.com
2. Open settings
3. Scroll down to Signature
4. Click the “Insert image” icon in the text editor
5. Drag and drop an image from your Mac

Speaking of visuals, if you want to quickly share a video snippet of your screen, whether it’s for a presentation, demo, or customer support, you can do so with Capto. 

Capto is a screen recording and sharing tool that lets you collaborate with others asynchronously. You can start an instant screen recording, add voiceover and visual graphics for more clarity, and share the link in an email right after. 

Common email signature formatting issues

You might notice that some Gmail signatures look nice and professional, and others feel disjointed and out of place. The appearance of your Gmail signature depends on the formatting you choose when creating your signature using the Gmail text editor. 

Here are a few common issues and how to fix them: 

• Text size. Check that your signature’s text size is the same as the text size on your emails. 
• Font. Use the same font for your email and signature text. 
• Hard to read. Use dashes, slashes, vertical bars, and underscores to separate text in your signature. 
• Not interactive. Make sure your website URL in the signature has a correct hyperlink. 
• Messy. Try to reduce the information in your email signature to the bare minimum (i.e. maybe don’t include your company slogan).

Tip: While managing your email signatures is critical to maintaining professionalism, it's just one piece of the email productivity puzzle. To really take your email game to the next level, explore Spark Mail. It allows you to manage emails from multiple inboxes, mark emails as done or snooze, pin important messages, block senders, mute threads, and write better emails faster with the help of AI. 

Keep all your emails in one app

Those who use multiple Gmail accounts might be tired of constantly switching between inboxes. 

There are, however, email clients for Mac that can combine multiple Gmail and Outlook accounts into a single app, keeping you on top of your emails at any time. One option is to use Canary Mail mentioned above. Another option is to try IM+. 

IM+ is a unique app in many regards. Not only can it combine all your Gmail accounts under a single interface, it can include any instant messengers as well, be it WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Slack — you name it! 

You can configure separate profiles for work and home accounts, define custom hotkeys, show your status, share files, and set precise notifications. 

As you can see, you can quickly change signature in Gmail at any time. Just make sure it’s succinct and contains your essential contact information. Then, enhance your email experience by moving to Canary Mail or IM+. Additionally, learn to write emails with snippets by using Rocket Typist, use Spark Mail's AI assistant, and share short screen recordings with Capto. 

Best of all, Canary Mail, IM+, Rocket Typist, Spark Mail, and Capto are available to you at no cost through the trial of Setapp. Setapp is a platform with more than 240 outstanding apps for Mac and iOS across all imaginable categories, from photo retouching to writing code to speeding up your Mac. Try every Setapp app for free today and discover some new favorites.