On iPhone, when you subscribe to iCloud+, you can use Hide My Email to keep your personal email address private. It generates unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal email account, so you don’t have to share your real address when you fill out forms, sign up for newsletters, or send email.
You can create a new address, deactivate one so it stops forwarding emails to you, choose which personal email address it forwards to, and copy a forwarding address to use elsewhere. You can also generate addresses in Safari and Mail wherever an email address is required.
You can create and manage Hide My Email addresses in Settings . Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Hide My Email, then do any of the following:
- Create a Hide My Email address: Tap Create New Address, then follow the onscreen instructions.
- Deactivate a Hide My Email address: Tap an address (below Create New Address), then tap Deactivate Email Address. After you deactivate the address, it no longer forwards emails to you.
- Change which personal email address you forward to: Tap Forward To, then choose an email address. Options consist of addresses that are available with your Apple Account.
- Copy a forwarding address to use elsewhere: Tap an address (below Create New Address), touch and hold the Hide My Email section, then tap Copy. To immediately use that address elsewhere, touch and hold in a text field, then tap Paste.
You can also generate Hide My Email addresses in Safari and Mail wherever email addresses are required. In supporting apps, you can also generate a Hide My Email address when an email address is required by tapping the email address field, then tapping Hide My Email above the keyboard.
