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Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

At its WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple announced that iCloud is getting a premium subscription tier called “iCloud+,” which includes tentpole privacy features like Private Relay and Hide My Email. Another feature included in iCloud+ that wasn’t discussed in the keynote is the ability to create a custom email domain name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

I think it’s better to use another e-mail provider, but at least with a custom domain you can more easily change in the future.<\/p>\n\n

Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Expanding on the capabilities of Sign in with Apple, Hide My Email lets users share unique, random email addresses that forward to their personal inbox anytime they wish to keep their personal email address private. Built directly into Safari, iCloud settings, and Mail, Hide My Email also enables users to create and delete as many addresses as needed at any time, helping give users control of who is able to contact them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

It appears that you can set it forward to a non-iCloud address. So you can improve your privacy by hiding your real e-mail address from sites, but you also reduce it by routing your mail through Apple, and add a dependency on iCloud.<\/p>\n\n

Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The following steps show you how to create a new dummy email address with Hide My Email, for use in Safari and Mail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n