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 new email domain for both will be: private.icloud.com
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.
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 new email domain for both will be: private.icloud.comThe 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.
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