{"id":52503,"date":"2026-07-02T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52503"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:40:26","slug":"hide-my-email-moving-to-private-icloud-com-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/02\/hide-my-email-moving-to-private-icloud-com-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide My Email Moving to private.icloud.com Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=sus6t6ab\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/15\/apple-private-icloud-email-domain\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=sus6t6ab\">\n<p>Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: <strong>private.icloud.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear to me what the benefit of this is. Is there a reason to migrate legacy addresses?<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arseniyshestakov.com\/2026\/06\/16\/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless\/\">Arseniy Shestakov<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=48559935\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arseniyshestakov.com\/2026\/06\/16\/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless\/\">\n<p>This makes it much easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay mailboxes on iCloud mail.<\/p>\n<p>This is certainly a big hit for iCloud privacy, since some plausible deniability together with Apple&rsquo;s backing made banning iCloud aliases costly. But now a lot of services will just refuse to accept these emails, just like what happens with free temporary mailboxes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/06\/18\/new-domain-for-signinwithapple-and-icloudhidemyemail\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/06\/18\/new-domain-for-signinwithapple-and-icloudhidemyemail\">\n<p>But my retort is that a service that won&rsquo;t accept these email addresses is one that I probably don&rsquo;t want to have anything to do with. The only reason <em>not<\/em> to accept <code>private.icloud.com<\/code> email addresses is if you want to do something invasive with users&rsquo; actual email addresses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The main problem I have with Hide My Email is that some customers use it and then have no way to look up their purchase info via e-mail because they don&rsquo;t know which address they used. Of course, I wouldn&rsquo;t <em>reject<\/em> such addresses, but I wonder if services will start using the new domain to <em>recognize<\/em> that Hide My Email is being used and nudge the user to provide a different address.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/hide-my-email\/\">Hide My Email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (MacRumors): Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com. New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. 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