What is Hide My Email?
Hide My Email is a service that lets you keep your personal email address private, whether you're creating a new account with an app, signing up for a newsletter online, making a purchase with Apple Pay, or sending an email to someone you don't know well.
How Hide My Email Works
You need a paid iCloud+ account for as little as $0.99 per month and an @iCloud.com email address. Once enabled, you can either manually create unique alias email addresses or select "Hide My Email" when prompted to enter an email address while creating a new account or changing your email address with an online account using the Safari web browser.
These unique, random email addresses automatically forward to your @iCloud.com inbox. Each address is unique to you. You can read and respond directly to emails sent to these addresses, and your personal email address is kept private.
Advantages of Apple iCloud "Hide My Email"
Much increased privacy
You can disable the email alias address when it receives spam
No need to check multiple old email accounts that are full of junk
If you haven't already created an Apple @iCloud.com email account, click the link below to learn how to make one quickly.
Memorable @iCloud.com Email Alias Addresses
You can create up to 3 different memorable @iCloud.com email addresses. These can be useful to have an alias email account for when you need to give one quickly at the counter in a store, or if you don't feel comfortable sharing your main email account with an organization or people who might not adhere to proper email etiquette and, for example, disclose your private email address to a group of people in a CC to all...
Follow the steps below:
Go to icloud.com/mail and sign in with your Apple ID.
Click on the gear wheel to access the settings.
Select account.
Create up to 3 alias @icloud.com email accounts.
Self initiate “Hide My Email” alias
Occasionally, a website will not show the prompt to create a "Hide My Email" email alias. Or, if you are using a different web browser than Safari, you will have to initiate the creation of a new @iCloud.com alias manually.
Click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
Open System Settings.
Select Apple ID.
Click on iCloud+.
Select "Hide My Email."
Click the “+” icon.
Deactivate a "Hide My Email" @iCloud.com Email Alias
When you no longer want to receive email from a certain email alias address, for example, if it starts receiving spam or when an online account has been compromised and you want to update the account information, you can deactivate the alias.
Click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
Open System Settings.
Select Apple ID.
Click on iCloud+.
Select "Hide My Email."
Find the alias you want to deactivate.
Select "Deactivate."
