UPDATE: Automatic synchronisation from the Web version - 2025
Since the early 2025 updates, Gmail for Android has harmonised the way it works. The HTML signature configured on your computer is now automatically synchronised on your mobile application.
👉 What you get:
- Logos & Images: Faithful display ✅
- Clickable links**: Perfectly functional ✅
- Cleanliness**: No more
[OBJ]type tags ❌ - Simplicity**: No more manual copy and paste on your phone ❌
⚠️ The golden principle: The web version is your "source of truth". The local mobile signature takes priority; if activated, it blocks synchronisation of the rich signature.
💻 Step 1: Configure the "Master" signature on your computer
Everything starts here. To render impeccably on Android, your signature must be set up correctly on the browser.
- Connect to Gmail on your computer.
- Click on the icon Settings ⚙️ → View all settings.
- In the General tab, scroll down to the Signature section.
- Create or modify your signature.
🔥 Warning: Default values
Just below the signature editor, you must configure these options:
- For new emails: Select your signature.
- For replies/forwards**: Select your signature.
**Don't forget to click on "Save changes" at the bottom of the page.
🧹 Step 2: Clean up the Gmail application on Android
To make room for the HTML signature, you'll need to remove the "Mobile Signature" that acts as a lock.
- Open the Gmail application on your smartphone.
- Press the ☰ menu → Settings.
- Select the relevant email account.
- Press Mobile signature.
- Delete all the text. The field must be completely empty.
- Confirm with OK.
💡 Did you know? In 2025, Gmail will now display an explanatory text: If this field is empty, the signature configured on the Web will be used " This is exactly what we want.
🔄 Step 3: Force synchronisation (if there's a delay)
If the rich signature does not appear immediately when you write a new message :
- Go to Settings on your Android phone.
- Go to Passwords and Accounts (or "Users and Accounts").
- Select your Google Account.
- Check that Gmail synchronisation is activated.
- Press the three dots ⋮ → Sync Now.
*Note: restarting the application (force shutdown) is usually enough to refresh the display.
✅ Expected end result
- An identical HTML signature on PC and Android.
- Images displayed without error.
- Simplified maintenance: edit on PC, it's updated everywhere.