Apple put out a notification on June 15th that soon, the domains for "Hide My Email" and "Sign in with Apple" masked email addresses will be changing.
- Previously, "Hide My Email" addresses were generated under the default icloud.com Apple consumer mailbox domain, mixing them in with regular iCloud user email addresses.
- For "Sign in with Apple" email addresses, generated upon Apple-linked registration in-App or on the web, these were previously created in the privaterelay.appleid.com domain.
The change is expected to come "later this summer."
The old domains are not going away; existing addresses are not changing.
Various wags have suggested that this could allow companies to reject signups from hidden email addresses. I'm not so sure about that; "Sign in with Apple" is popular functionality and I don't see how companies would allow that while blocking "Hide My Email." I don't necessarily even think of "Hide My Email" addresses as traditional disposable addresses; they don't automatically expire and are manually created and/or deleted. I think of these more as email aliases that I suspect that people generally keep using for a period of time.
Time will tell.
