iCloud+ Hide My Email Addresses Will Stay on icloud.com, Apple Confirms
Apple has confirmed that Hide My Email addresses created through iCloud+ will continue to use the icloud.com domain, reversing an earlier plan after developer and user feedback. Starting later this year, however, new private relay addresses generated through Sign in with Apple will be issued under a different domain: private.icloud.com. The two privacy features, which are often confused, are now diverging in how their addresses are structured. What Apple Announced In a brief developer news post, Apple clarified the domain policy for two related but distinct privacy features: Hide My Email (part of iCloud+) and the private email relay used by Sign in with Apple. According to the notice, Hide My Email addresses - the disposable, forwarding email addresses iCloud+ subscribers can generate for sign-ups, newsletters, or online forms - will keep using the icloud.com domain going forward, as they always have. This matters because Apple had apparently considered consolidating or changing ...