How to use Hide My Email in the Mail app on iPhone and iPad

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We have to use our email addresses for a lot of things these days, so it’s wise to try to implement privacy best practices wherever possible. While some people have a backup email to use with people or organizations that may not be as careful, it can be difficult to manage different details.

The Hide My Email feature in iOS 15 allows you to skip this step by assigning yourself a randomly generated email address that automatically forwards all communications to your live account. Here’s how to use it in Apple’s Mail app.

Table of Contents:

• What is Hide My Email?
• How to use Hide my email in the mail app
• How to disable Hide my email forwarding
• stay private

  • How AirPods Pro proved that Apple could keep the secret without destroying the products

What is Hide My Email?

Hide My Email is a feature available to iCloud+ subscribers that allows you to better protect your email address. Here’s how Apple puts it:

“Hide My Email is a service that allows you to keep your personal email address private, whether you’re creating a new account with an app, signing up for an online newsletter, or emailing someone you don’t know well.”

Setting up Hide My Email is pretty straightforward, which you need to do before you try to use it. Then you can use it in a few places on your iPhone and iPad instead of entering your real email address. Let’s see how it works in the Mail app.

How to use Hide my email in the mail app

If you’re an iCloud+ subscriber, you can choose to use Hide My Email in the Mail app on your iPhone or iPad when composing a new message.

The address created by Hide My Email will be saved in your settings with the recipient as a label. Every time you send an email to that person or organization in the future, simply tap Hide my email again and the system will automatically retrieve the previously used forwarding email each time.

Please note that Hide My Email random email generation is only supported when there is only one recipient.

How to disable Hide my email forwarding

A great benefit of using Hide My Email with the Mail app is that it’s very easy to turn off email forwarding by address.

So if you want to make a particular person unreachable, a company sending you too many emails, or a data breach that caused your randomly generated email address to now be listed by some spammers, you can disable this email address. electronic. That is how.

Once you disable a Hide My Email address, messages sent to you will no longer be forwarded to your real email address.

stay private

You may not use Hide My Email often, but it’s one of the best iPhone features to add to your privacy arsenal when contacting someone new. It’s conveniently integrated directly into the Mail app on iPhone and iPad, so you can better protect your personal information in just a few clicks.

May 2022 Update: Update for iOS 15.4.

Can you keep a secret?

How AirPods Pro proved that Apple could keep the secret without destroying the products

Apple, a company famous for its secret product development cycles, changed everything when it decided to work on a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. According to one of those involved in the decision to think differently, the result was the 2019 launch of the popular AirPods Pro.

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