How to use Hide My Email with iCloud+ on your iPhone or iPad
Hide My Email is a service that's included with your iCloud+ subscription. With Hide My Email, you can generate unique, random email addresses that automatically forward to your personal inbox, so you can keep your email address private.
How Hide My Email works
When you create a new account with an app or website, sign up for a newsletter online or need to send an email to someone you don’t know well, you can use Hide My Email directly from Safari or your iCloud Settings to create a unique, random email address. If you want, you can refresh your randomly generated email address to generate a new one. After you've chosen an address, it's unique to you. You can read and respond directly to emails sent to this email address and your personal email address is kept private.
Apple doesn’t read or process any of the content in the email messages that pass through Hide My Email, except to perform standard spam filtering that’s required to maintain our status as a trusted email provider. All email messages are deleted from our relay servers after they're delivered to you, usually within seconds.
You can change the email address that receives forwarded messages at any time. Or you can choose to turn off email forwarding to stop receiving messages. You can manage your addresses created with Hide My Email in Settings on your iPhone, iPad or on iCloud.com.
If Hide My Email is used to sign in to an app or a website using Sign in with Apple, an address ending in @privaterelay.appleid.com will be created. If you're using Hide My Email on a website or an app that doesn’t support Sign in with Apple, an address ending in @icloud.com will be created.
Create an email address with Hide My Email
You can set up new email addresses with Hide My Email in Settings on your Mac and iPhone, or iPad that’s signed in to your Apple Account. You can also set up new addresses on iCloud.com, Mail or Safari.
You can also keep your email address private in third-party apps. Just tap Hide My Email in your QuickType keyboard suggestions, then follow the onscreen steps.
Find out how to set up Hide My Email in Mail, Safari, on iCloud.com or on your device
Deactivate an email address with Hide My Email
After you deactivate an email address in Hide My Email, it stops forwarding emails to you.
Open the Settings app, then tap your name.
Tap iCloud, then tap Hide My Email.
Select an email address, then tap Deactivate Email Address. Tap Deactivate to confirm. This temporarily deactivates that email address for the app or website that you created it for.
To use the email address again, you need to reactivate it.
Open the Settings app, then tap your name.
Tap iCloud, then tap Hide My Email.
Select Inactive Addresses. Tap Reactivate Address, then tap Reactivate to confirm.
Delete an email address in Hide My Email
When you delete an email address in Hide My Email, it can no longer be used with the app or website that you created it for. You can create a new email address in Hide My Email to use with the app or website. In order to delete an email address in Hide My Email, you need to deactivate it first.
Open the Settings app, then tap your name.
Tap iCloud, then tap Hide My Email.
Tap Inactive Addresses, then select the email address.
Tap Delete Address. Tap Delete to confirm.
Change Forward To email address in Hide My Email
Open the Settings app, then tap your name.
Tap iCloud, then tap Hide My Email.
Scroll down, then tap Forward To.
Select a new email address to use, then tap Done.
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