Perhaps it was the lack of sleep, but I recently found myself having a full-fledged meltdown, prompted by an email signature. Specifically, my own email signature (or lack of one): that little one-line signoff that comes at the end of your iPhone message, telling the person on the other end that you’ve sent the message from your mobile device.

Sure, there was a time it may have been appropriate, even cool, to tout the default “Sent from my iPhone,” a programmed plug-in (and a genius little bit of branding). But these days, that one-liner signals only one thing: bore.

So instead, you must come up with something witty. “Sent from a bumpy tarmac,” you might write, followed by a custom GIF. “Envoi de mon iPhone,” if you want to be fancy (and French).

The director Shonda Rhimes famously signs her emails with “Sent from the room where it happens,” followed by a bite-size statement on work-life balance, noting that she will not respond to emails after 7 p.m. The writer Roxane Gay signs off, “Sent from a magical awesome telephonic device from the future. You might call it an iPhone.”