# Apple keeps Hide My Email addresses on icloud.com

_Published Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 2:07 PM EDT · Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Apple confirmed that Hide My Email addresses will remain on the @icloud.com domain, reversing an earlier plan to move users to @private.icloud.com, TechCrunch reports.

Hide My Email gives iCloud+ subscribers disposable addresses that forward messages to a regular inbox. Users had argued that the proposed domain would make masked addresses easier for websites to reject during sign-up. Apple did not give a reason for its reversal.

The article also notes that Apple previously fixed a bug that could reveal users' real addresses through spam rejections.

## Sources

- [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/apple-rescues-hide-my-email-feature-from-the-privacy-scrap-heap/)

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Published: 2026-08-25T18:07:11.770Z
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Retrieved: 2026-10-09T23:50:31.046Z
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