06/17/2026
Right now, when you use “Hide My Email” or “Sign in with Apple,” it gives you a fake email address that forwards messages to your real inbox. This lets you sign up for things online without handing out your actual email. These fake addresses currently look just like normal iCloud email addresses, which is actually the whole point: a website can’t tell the difference between someone’s real iCloud account and a generated fake one, so it can’t block them.
Apple’s new plan is to move all these fake addresses to their own separate address ending in .icloud.com. Old addresses will keep working fine, so nothing breaks right away. But the problem is that once all the fake addresses live in one easily identifiable place, websites can simply block that entire address ending and refuse anyone using it, the same way many sites already block disposable email services.
Privacy-focused users are unhappy about this, since it basically removes the “disguise” that made the feature useful. Some are now rushing to generate a bunch of old-style addresses before the change happens, so they’ll have a stockpile to use later, though Apple limits how many you can create at once.
It’s worth noting Apple hasn’t said this is intended to make blocking easier; that’s an unintended side effect people are worried about, and there’s hope Apple might reconsider before the rollout.
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