A Guide to Using Hide My Email on iPhone
What Is Hide My Email on iPhone
As the name suggests, the main function of Hide My Email is to keep your primary email address away from random apps and websites on the iPhone. So instead of yourname@icloud.com, Apple will generate and use random@icloud.com and redirect all emails to the original email ID.
Hide My Email is built upon Sign in with Apple function that debuted with iOS 13. Sign in with Apple gives you an option to create a virtual email address to share with app developers and other online services and apps.
With Hide My Email, Apple is further extending the functionality with a friendlier ending @icloud.com domain than a random and awkward @privateicloud.appleid.com domain.
How to Use Hide My Email on iPhone
As we mentioned above, the function is built into the Safari browser, Mail, and apps supporting Sign in with Apple function. Let’s take an app as an example here.
1.Open a newly downloaded app on the iPhone.
2.From the signup page, select theSign in with Applebutton.
3.SelectHide my emailat the bottom and tap onContinue.
The developer will receive a random email address instead of your original email address.
But then again, what about promotional emails from the same developer? How can they reach you as they don’t have your original email ID? Don’t worry. Apple will forward all the emails from the sent random address to your original Apple ID in the Mail app. So you will continue to receive emails even though the developer doesn’t have your original email address. Win-win for both parties.
Tap onHide my emailand it will suggest a random email ID to use with the service. Tap onContinueand you can add a note related to the email ID and take a peek at the label. Tap onUseand the email ID is ready to use.
We tried loading the same website on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome on the iPhone. The OS didn’t show any Hide my email option.
How to Customize Hide my email
This is yet another new addition to iOS 15. Unlike the previous version, users can actually see all those created virtual email IDs from the Settings menu.
You can further customize some options as well.
1.Open theSettingsapp on iPhone.
2.Tap onApple IDat the top.
3.OpeniCloudand selectHide my emailfrom the following menu.
Here, you can see all the random email addresses that you created using Sign in with Apple option over the last two years.
From the same menu, you can create a new address and give it a relevant label or add a note. You can also go to any service and disableForward totoggle so that you won’t receive any new email from the app or service in your primary email inbox.
How to Disable Hide my email on iPhone
Tap onManage Sign in with Apple Settingsand selectEditfrom the following menu. Tap onDeleteand selectStop using.
How do I check created email addresses on iPhone?
you’re able to go to Settings > Profile > iCloud > Hide my email menu and check all the created email addresses using Hide my email on the iPhone or Mac.
How do I disable email forwards in my primary email account?
Navigate to Settings > Profile > iCloud > Hide my email and select a service from which you want to stop getting emails. Disable Forward to toggle and you are good to go.
Is Hide my email free?
Yes, Hide my email is absolutely free to use. However, you can unlock more goodies such as the ability to create a random email address or the ability to hide your email address while sending emails via an iCloud subscription. iCloud paid plans start at $0.99 per month.
Wrapping Up: Use Hide my email on iPhone
Parth Shah
Parth previously worked at EOTO.tech covering tech news. He is currently freelancing at TechWiser, Android Police, and GuidingTech writing about apps comparisons, tutorials, software tips and tricks, and diving deep into iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows platforms.
