# Verizon Text to Email: Get iPhone Texts in Your Inbox > Verizon is shutting down its email-to-text service. Here is how to get every text your iPhone receives into your inbox with Shortcuts and Fwrd. Last updated: 2026-11-04 Canonical HTML page: https://www.fwrdsms.com/blog/verizon-text-to-email Published: 2026-11-04 To get the texts your Verizon iPhone receives into your inbox, make a Message automation in Apple’s Shortcuts app with Fwrd’s action and Apple’s Send Email after it. Mail sends each text from the account on your iPhone, so it doesn’t depend on Verizon’s old email-to-text service, which Verizon says it has begun shutting down. **What you need:** the iPhone that gets the texts, on iOS 26 or later, a Mail account on it that can send, and the address that should get them, such as Gmail, Outlook or iCloud. ## Is Verizon text to email going away? Yes, according to Verizon. Its support page, [Notice to Customers: Shutdown of email to Vtext and VZWPix](https://www.verizon.com/support/vtext-vzwpix-shutdown/) (read November 4, 2026), says: “Verizon has begun the process of shutting down its legacy email-to-text functionality. We anticipate this process will be completed by 03/31/2027, although some senders may lose access to legacy email-to-text prior to that date.” It adds that when the shutdown is complete, “no one will be able to send texts via emails to Vtext.com or VZWPix.com.” For businesses and public sector organizations that want to keep using it, the page points to Verizon’s Enterprise Messaging (EMAG). Verizon’s [email-to-text FAQ](https://www.verizon.com/about/account-security/email-to-text-faqs) (read November 4, 2026) describes the service as “the ability to send a text or image to any device via email,” and says it “is intended for low-volume consumer use only.” Both pages are about email going to a phone. Neither is about sending the texts your iPhone receives on to an email address, which is what the rest of this page is about. ## Why is Vtext not working for me? The notice gives two reasons. It says that email-to-text messages “may already not be getting through to recipients because of automatic filtering of SMS spam or because the recipient(s) affirmatively disabled incoming e-mail-to-text messages.” It also warns that some senders may lose access before the end date. So if Vtext is not working, the cause is usually on Verizon’s side, not a setting on your iPhone. If you depend on texts reaching your inbox, it’s safer not to rely on a service that is being switched off. ## How do I get my Verizon texts in email automatically? Let your iPhone do the sending. A Shortcuts Message automation runs each time a text arrives, Fwrd’s action passes the text on, and Apple’s Send Email mails it to your inbox. Nothing goes through Verizon’s email service, so it works the same on Verizon as on any other carrier. What this gives you: - **Every matching text, as it arrives.** The automation runs on your iPhone when a text arrives, and Mail sends the email from your own account. - **You choose which texts.** A word in the automation, such as code, decides which texts are emailed. - **It can say who sent it.** Turn on Include Who Sent It in Fwrd’s Settings and choose Sender on Fwrd’s action, and each email starts with a From: line. - **It can go further than email.** The same action can also post each text to any chat app or webhook you add in Fwrd. ## How to send iPhone texts to email, step by step 1. **Add Email in [Fwrd](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6759069713?pt=128544281&ct=blog-verizon-email&mt=8).** Open Fwrd, tap +, and choose Email Address. Under Recipient Reference, type the address that should get your texts and tap + to add it, then save with the tick. 2. **Create a Message automation.** On iOS 27, open Shortcuts, tap Library, then Automation, then +. If you see Describe a shortcut, tap Edit. Tap Automation, then Message. On iOS 26, open the Automation tab, tap + (or New Automation if it’s your first), and choose Message. 3. **Choose which texts to email.** Choose Message Contains (on iOS 27, change Sender to Message) and type a word those texts include, such as code. To email any text with a space in it, type a single space instead. 4. **Let it run without asking.** On iOS 27, tap the arrow beside the trigger and turn off Confirm Before Run. Under ⓘ, then Privacy, turn on Allow Running When Locked. On iOS 26, choose Run Immediately (if you see Notify When Run, turn it off), then tap Next and Create New Shortcut. 5. **Add Fwrd’s action.** (On iOS 26, tap Add Action first.) Search for Forward, add Fwrd’s Forward Message to All Destinations, and set its Message to Shortcut Input. 6. **Add Apple’s Send Email below it.** Search for Send Email and pick Apple’s. Tap its Message field and choose Forward Message to All Destinations in the bar above the keyboard. Under Recipients, add the address you saved in Fwrd. 7. **Type a subject.** Tap Subject and type one, such as Forwarded text. If you leave it blank, Shortcuts stops and asks for a subject every time, and nothing is sent while the iPhone is locked. ![Send Email reading “Send Forward Message to All Destinations with Forwarded text to you@example.com”](https://www.fwrdsms.com/guides/steps/email-subject-6e431ceb.jpg) 8. **Turn off the compose sheet.** Tap the arrow at the end of Send Email and turn off Show Compose Sheet, so Mail sends without waiting for you. Tap back to save (Done on iOS 26). 9. **That’s it.** New texts with your word now land in your inbox on their own, with the iPhone unlocked or locked. The [email setup guide](https://www.fwrdsms.com/guides/email) has a video of every tap. ## What this can’t do - **It can’t text an email address for you.** Fwrd forwards texts your iPhone receives. It doesn’t send the texts you write in Messages to an email address. - **It can’t turn emails into texts.** Fwrd works in one direction, from the iPhone to your inbox, and it doesn’t bring back email-to-text. - **It can’t forward texts you already have.** Only texts that arrive after the automation is on are emailed. - **The iPhone has to stay on and online.** Mail sends each email from the iPhone, over Wi-Fi or mobile data. - **After a restart, unlock it once.** Forwarding waits until the first unlock. - **Text only, one way.** Pictures don’t forward, and replying to the email doesn’t reach the person who texted you. - **Handing a text to Email counts as a forward,** since Fwrd can’t see whether Mail’s send arrived. ## Questions about Verizon text to email ### When does Verizon email to text end? Verizon expects the shutdown to be complete by 03/31/2027, as read on its notice on November 4, 2026. It also says some senders may lose access before then, so the date is a target, not a promise. ### Does Fwrd send the email itself? No. Fwrd hands each text to Apple’s Send Email action in your shortcut, and Mail sends it from the account on your iPhone. I built Fwrd with no email server, account or relay, so your texts never pass through one of mine. ### Does it work if I’m on Verizon prepaid or another carrier? Yes. The automation runs on the iPhone when a text arrives, so your carrier only delivers the text, as usual. It runs for iMessages too, since a Message automation covers everything that arrives in Messages. ### How much does it cost? Fwrd is free for 15 forwards a month, and a text counts once however many places it goes. Fwrd Pro removes the limit, and the app shows its price before you buy. ## Keep reading - [AT&T text to email stopped? 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