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Apple’s Hide-my-email service is only useful to people who don’t have their own domain-name for email. I assume most of here on HM have a vanity dot-com or dot-
by DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
Apple’s Hide-my-email service is only useful to people who don’t have their own domain-name for email. I assume most of here on HM have a vanity dot-com or dot-me that we just point to GMail (or maybe Office 365 if you lean that way) - all those services (not to mention self-hosted) allow us to set arbitrary, catch-all, and disposable addresses (even the perpetually un-cool O365 supports it now too).
I’ll never use Apple’s Hide-my-email service until they let us use it with our own domain-names. It’s my email mailbox and my dodgy account registration, not Apple’s.
- signalblur 3y agoI wouldn’t say it’s only useful for people without vanity domain names - it also adds a level anonymity should the user database get leaked (IE: it’ll be a random HME account that will look like every other, vs your specific domain name) Also FWIW you can use it with custom domains - I use it with fastmail and have since day one (their version of it isn’t as tightly integrated as Apple but they offer this service as well). Hope this helps!
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago> Also FWIW you can use it with custom domains To confirm, you're saying that Apple will generate something like "randomString@yourDomainName.com"? If so, how can I set that up? I don't see any relevant settings on my phone's iCloud settings page.
- mimischi 3y agohttps://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/icloud-custom-email-domain-mme8ed800b5d/icloud https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/icloud-custom-email-d...
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoThat document says in roder to do that you need to migrate to using iCloud Mail - oh well.
- faeriechangling 3y agoHide my email is useful for avoiding linking accounts to a common identifier.