Replying to an email with "Hide My Email" address?

I thought at first this didn't work either, but it does. I used a generated email to get some info. Looking at the email I received it shows To with the hide my email address, and it even generated an email for the sender. I tried to fwd the message to my work email and I could see my real email, which made me think it did not work. I then emailed the hide my email from my work and it looked like the other sender's email with my hide my address and an email generated for my work address. I responded to my work email test message and when I looked at the header received it was from the hide my email address. So my actual email was never compromised. It is just confusing because when you hit reply it shows you your actual email address.

I have the exact same issue. The only way I can get it to work is to open the email on iCloud.com through a browser. If I try to respond to an email through the default mail app (on iPhone or Mac), I get the same error "Delivery not authorized". Hypothetically assuming my gmail address is "firstname.lastname@gmail.com," the "From" field on my Mac's email application shows up as "firstname.lastname_at_gmail_com_4ww56rmmds5878_7d9abf7e@icloud.com".... that is, when I send to my "Hide-my-email" address from my gmail address, the "From" field is getting recast as an "iCloud.com" email address.... Very weird.

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Hi. I tried this but it did not work for me, or maybe my understanding is not correct. I received an email to my “Hide my email” I’d and as a test I replied to it but sent it to my partner to check if it works - My partner could see the real email address. Am confused how does the reply function works and how to reliably test it?

Thanks

Here is my problem: I use "hide my email" to purchase something from Guitar Center....after which they sent adverts I do not want. In order to unsubscribe you must email a different G.C. address. In composing a new email it does not offer me the "hide my email" address as an option......So how do you populate a new email with the "hide my email" address you used when sending to a different initial address? Ugh! Dennis

I have tried replying to from my non apple email address and the senders email address is undeliverable from it.

@MichelleT18

Thank you so so much!

As you can see below, Apple Support couldn’t even answer this simple question!!!! Claiming that I need help ‘using a fake IP’….I mean technically it’s a forwarding domain but when you work for apple, that’s not how you should explain or talk professionally as a support agent for Apple! I’m a loyal Apple Guru, I love ios15 and the new features & iCloud+ users ….we now get more bang for our buck, an apple understands how important identity fraud & data protection is…especially with the relay option as well….putting the end user first where we have more and more control of our data and the the impact toxic data has across the board, and while many different tech giants are moving in the same direction to ensure that the best standard practices are in enforced to ensure end users with trained support staff that can respond to simple queries with professionalism when need be……brand loyalty is everything in todays competing digital era.

Hopefully, this simple and correct answer is noticed and appreciated by others.

Warm regards,

S

In my test, this is not the case. When you reply the replyto header includes my real email address.

See also discussion at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/hide-my-email-may-be-revealing-forwarding-email-address.2315844/

Is there a chance I'm doing something incorrectly?

Or does it only work with a full icloud.com email address?

@brianfromindialantic

Ditto. Many ISP’s and their ‘direct,’ or indirect’ affiliate mail filtering services are blocking iOS users with iCloud+ and it’s ‘hide my email’ service which isn’t a surprise to me or others.

We knew this day was coming anyway and Apple will find a workaround once their ‘Relay’ feature, currently in its Beta version, works and works well! …..

Can apple create something that will save ‘all’ their loyal users from having to purchase a separate yearly VPN/Encrypted network…time will tell.

Hey! How about hiding your email right from the email app when creating a new email? How do you go about doing that? Say I want to email an online shop inquiring about their product but don't want to share my real email with them, does the iCloud+ help in that regard?

For example, my real email is 123@456.com but want to use an autogenerated email instead to send my inquiry, is that possible?

Hi Michelle,

when using gmail.com to replying to email coming to my hide my email address - and the incoming emails being generated from a software such as a CRM or a help desk software - I am getting a bounce back “delivery not authorized”

“ 550 5.7.1 Delivery not authorized”

the only way to make this work is I have to ask the salesperson of the company to send an email using his personal email to come to my hide my email and then reply to that email.

this is a bug on apple’s end is there a fix?

I just replied to an email from a vendor who used my "Hide" address in their email to me, my reply as I drafted it showed my real address, the "sent" copy of the email also shows my real address. So it looks like my real address is what will show at the vendor's end. Please advise.

THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU OVANIN!!

that worked!!!!! I signed into iCloud, got to my email and boom! It showed the HIDDEN EMAIL I PICKED in the FROM FIELD! I wish Apple would have developed a way for the main email app to work but thank goodness there is at least A Way!!

This was helpful—I, too, was only able to reply on iCloud.com.

Pretty irritating, and not that effective.

I'm also limited to replying to a single person—I've been unable to "Reply to All" or add recipients using the Mail app. Haven't tested it with iCloud yet.

Maybe the best thing to do is to use the Custom Email Domain and just use different addresses from that domain when giving out emails to different sites?

If you get an "undeliverable" replying to the HME-reply-to email (which is something like name-of-original-sender-and-some-random-string@icloud.com) copy this email address and send your email to it via iCloud.com online email functionality. It just tried it and at least there was no "undeliverable" response. So I assume the email got through. ;]