How to use Hide My Email with iCloud+ on your iPhone or iPad

Hide My Email is a service that’s included with an iCloud+ subscription. With Hide My Email, you can generate unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal inbox automatically, so you can keep your personal 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 very well, you can use Hide My Email to create a unique, random email address. You can create multiple Hide My Email addresses to use with different apps and websites. 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 will be kept private.

Emails sent to any of your Hide My Email addresses will be forwarded to your personal email account, such as your iCloud Mail address or any email address associated with your Apple Account. 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.

Create an email address with Hide My Email

With Hide My Email, you can generate random email addresses in several locations. Here’s how to create an email address in Safari, Mail and iCloud settings:

• In Safari: open a website, tap in an email field, then tap Hide My Email above the keyboard to generate a new random email address or use one you’ve already created for the website.

• In Mail: open a new email window, tap the From field, then choose Hide My Email in the pop-up menu.

• In iCloud settings: in Settings, tap your name, tap iCloud, then tap Hide My Email. You can see and manage all of your unique, random addresses.

Find out more about how to set up Hide My Email

Deactivate an email address with Hide My Email

After you’ve deactivated an email address in Hide My Email, it will stop forwarding emails to you.

1. Open the Settings app, then tap your name.

2. Tap iCloud, scroll down to iCloud+ Features, then tap Hide My Email.

3. Select an email address, then tap Deactivate Email Address. Tap Deactivate to confirm. This will deactivate that email address temporarily for the app or website you created it for.

To use the email address again, you’ll need to reactivate it.

1. Open the Settings app, then tap your name.

2. Tap iCloud, scroll down to iCloud+ features, then tap Hide My Email.

3. Select Inactive Addresses. Tap the email address, 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 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’ll need to deactivate it first.

1. Open the Settings app, then tap your name.

2. Tap iCloud, then tap Hide My Email.

3. Tap Inactive Addresses, then select the email address.

4. Tap Delete Address. Tap Delete to confirm.

Change Forward To email address in Hide My Email

1. Open the Settings app, then tap your name.

2. Tap iCloud, then tap Hide My Email.

3. Scroll down, then tap Forward To.

4. Select a new email address to use, then tap Done.

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