How to hide your email address on your iPhone or iPad

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This caller Hide My Email enactment lets you usage an anonymous email code to motion up for website and app accounts.

Hide My Email is simply a caller diagnostic introduced successful iOS/iPadOS 15 designed to assistance you enactment much backstage online. Available with iCloud+, this diagnostic is an improved mentation of the existing Sign successful with Apple work that lets you usage an anonymous Apple ID to registry with definite apps and websites. But Sign successful with Apple works lone with supported apps and sites, portion Hide My Email lets you usage a random email code for immoderate website. Here's however it works.

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First, you'll person to upgrade to a paid iCloud subscription if you haven't already already done so. You'll besides request to update your instrumentality to iOS/iPadOS 15 oregon higher if you're inactive moving an older version.

Next, spell to Settings connected your iPhone oregon iPad. Tap your sanction astatine the apical of the screen, prime the introduction for iCloud, and past pat Hide My Email (Figure A).

Figure A

If you're already utilized the Sign successful with Apple option, you'll spot a database of the random email addresses you've generated successful the past. To usage 1 of these addresses for a caller online account, pat it. At the details surface for that address, marque definite it's inactive forwarding to your existent email address. If not, crook connected the power to bash so. You tin present usage that code with immoderate caller accounts for which you privation to stay anonymous (Figure B).

Figure B

If nary existing addresses are disposable oregon you privation to make a caller address, pat the nexus for Create New Address. The Hide My Email surface creates a caller random address. If you'd similar to effort a antithetic address, pat the nexus for Use Different Address. Keep tapping that nexus to spot a antithetic address. The app cycles done 3 random addresses each clip you effort it, truthful you'll request to prime 1 of them. When you find an code you privation to use, benignant a sanction for it successful the Label field. Add a enactment if you wish. Tap Next and past pat Done (Figure C).

Figure C

You tin present usage that code for immoderate website oregon app that requires you to register. Any email sent to that random code volition beryllium forwarded to your regular address. To deactivate that address, instrumentality to the Hide My Email surface and pat connected the address. At the details screen, pat the nexus for Deactivate Email Address and corroborate the deactivation (Figure D).

Figure D