At long bloody last, this bog stan­dard fea­ture has arrived cour­tesy of TextGuru. The app has gar­nered quite a bit of atten­tion thanks to it being a rather well-​designed, easy to use text editor, one that includes the holy grail of miss­ing iPhone fea­tures: cut and paste. I’m not ter­ri­bly excited by the text edit­ing fea­tures, to be honest—if I want to write and edit text, I’ll do it on some­thing with a key­board (though I’m fairly sure I’ll be writ­ing longer emails in TextGuru before too long).

Anyway, here’s how to get a text file from your com­puter to your iPhone, then email it to your irate boss.

1. Install TextGuru on your iPhone (at the time of writ­ing it costs 59 pence).
2. Down­load, install and launch the TextGuru File Share appli­ca­tion for your Mac.
3. Find the file you want, and copy it to the TextGuru folder (you’ll find an alias to it in your Doc­u­ments folder, it’s really in ~/Library/Application Support/TextGuru/Files).
4. Launch TextGuru on the iPhone
5. Click on the File Shares button
6. Click on ‘TextGuru FileServer’
7. Click on the name of the file you copied to the TextGuru folder a moment ago.
8. Click on the Down­load File button.
9. Click on the Doc­u­ments button.
10. Click on the name of your file.
11. Click on the little ‘i’ button.
12. Click on ‘Send via Email’.

The tech­ni­cal term for all that is ‘a bit of a faff’, even if you dis­count the first two steps as one-​time affairs. But I’m still really very grate­ful to the TextGuru devel­op­ers for giving me a fea­ture that Apple should’ve included from the off.