How to Send Fax by iPhone – A Guide

Okay, so are you ready to turn your iPhone into a virtual fax machine?  In these days we live in it is very important to be able to take care of business and communications on the go, and the iPhone is the perfect tool to do so.  Simply by downloading a mobile app you can add new features and functions to your phone.

Let’s start by taking a look at the things we need to send fax from iPhone:

An iPhone.  This is obvious, but hey! This is a requirement!

An email fax service account.  Email fax services are companies that allow you to send and receive fax by email.  They have revolutionized the way we look at faxing and help us manage every document as a digital file.  With each account you get a virtual fax number that can actually grab a common fax image (coming from a fax machine) and convert it into a digital document.  Some of these services have developed apps that sync your fax account with your phone, so you can send faxes and receive instant notifications of incoming ones.

An email address.  This will help you review faxes in detail from your computer.  I strongly recommend that you create a new account that will be destined just for faxing purposes.  There’s no need in getting fancy, I personally have my personal email account and I have added a “.fax2 at the end to keep things as simple as possible.

Okay, so now let’s get on to faxing.  The first step should be creating a new email fax account.  So far the email fax services that have developed special mobile fax apps are eFax, RingCentral and MyFax.  But only MyFax and eFax allow you to compose and send fax from an iPhone. Signing up with these services only takes up a couple of minutes. If you don’t want to spend any money at first, you have the option of entering a 30 day free fax trial, so you can test all the available apps before making your final decision.

Once you have your email fax account activated, you just grab your iPhone, head to the App Store and download the app that corresponds to the service of your choice.  These iPhone fax apps are completely free to download but in order to work you will need to enter your account details. From there, you will have all the options available to use.

Current iPhone fax apps are far from being perfect, but they help you take care of basic faxing on the go.  To send a fax you can choose two methods: you can either type up the message directly on the app, or you can use a more advanced feature: your phone’s camera. Simply snap a pic of a document you wish to fax and the app will resize the image and optimize it for fax delivery.