When you don’t want strangers to easily see your personal email address but somehow, you have to due to sign up purposes, that is when Apple has a solution for you. Hide My Emails is an iOS feature that generates unique and random email addresses in place of your real email address. Using these generated email addresses, email messages will be forwarded to your own account.
The first thing you have to do is subscribe to iCloud+ for you to enjoy the benefit of Apple’s Hide My Email. You can then find and access the tool via the Settings menu.
Just go to the Settings and tap your name. Select iCloud and choose Hide My Email. From there, you can easily manage the feature.
To create a new Hide My Email address, tap the Create a Hide My Email address and follow the instruction. You can also deactivate existing Hide My Email addresses by tapping the existing address and select Deactivate Email Address. It will stop forwarding email to you.
Managing Apple’s Hide My Email on iOS or iPadOS Mobile Devices
Let’s start by managing Hide My Email on your iPhone or iPad. To send an email, launch the Mail iOS or iPadOS app on your mobile device. Tap the new message icon. Enter the recipient’s address and the subject of your message. Now, tap the From field twice and select Hide My Email to generate a new email address.
If you want to send a reply, simply compose your response and verify if the email address indicated on the From field is a Hide My Email address or your personal one.
How to Find and Manage Hide My Email Tool on an iMac or MacBook
If you are using Mac, the steps are the same whenever you want to use and manage Hide My Emails. Just sign in to your Apple Account and access Hide My Emails in the System Settings.
You can send a message using Hide My Email addresses on the Mail macOS app. Compose a new message and go to the From field. A pop-up menu will appear. Choose Hide My Email. Now, select a Hide My Email address.
To update your Hide My Email settings, go to the top of the message and click Settings. You can also go to the To field, press Control and click Hide My Email and select Go to Hide My Email Settings.
Wrapping Up!
Apple offers a great way for users to preserve their privacy, especially when they are signing up on different websites. Use Hide My Email to keep things more secured on your part.
