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User profile for user: landryclan
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Hide My Email

what is the advantage of using Hide My Email?


iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Nov 10, 2022 3:00 PM

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User profile for user: Eric Root
Eric Root
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Posted on Nov 10, 2022 6:55 PM

It hides your actual Apple ID email address. From the article below.


What is Hide My Email?


Hide My Email lets you create unique, random email addresses to use with apps, websites, and more so your personal email can stay private. It's built in to Sign in with Apple and iCloud+. 


Hide My Email is a service that lets you keep your personal email address private whether you're creating a new account with an app, signing up for a newsletter online, or sending an email to someone you don't know well.


Hide My Email for Sign in with Apple - Apple Support.    

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Eric Root
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Nov 10, 2022 6:55 PM in response to landryclan

It hides your actual Apple ID email address. From the article below.


What is Hide My Email?


Hide My Email lets you create unique, random email addresses to use with apps, websites, and more so your personal email can stay private. It's built in to Sign in with Apple and iCloud+. 


Hide My Email is a service that lets you keep your personal email address private whether you're creating a new account with an app, signing up for a newsletter online, or sending an email to someone you don't know well.


Hide My Email for Sign in with Apple - Apple Support.    

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landryclan Author
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Nov 11, 2022 1:02 PM in response to Eric Root

I understand that it keeps your personal email address private, but what is the advantage of that? If it's to keep spammers from accessing my email, wouldn't the random email address the Hide My Email generates just forward a spammer's message to my regular email? Sorry if I'm being dense, but I'm not the most tech-savvy person around...thanks for any elucidation you can provide.

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