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How do you entirely disable the "Hide My Email" feature? It is very disruptive.

I don't have any need for this feature and it essentially breaks the existing functionality of having the keyboard pop up an auto-fill suggestion for my email.

iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Mar 27, 2023 9:47 AM

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Posted on Mar 27, 2023 10:47 AM

Hi, thanks for replying! This part of your reply, "Hide My Email only shows up if you select the option to Sign in with Apple when you sign up the first time to a website" is actually not correct. The "Hide My Email" feature shows up as the only predictive option in the iOS keyboard for any email input field on any website. If you tap into an email entry text box on any website the iOS keyboard will only show "Hide My Email" instead of my actual email which it used to show as a predicted auto-fill option.


If I click "Hide My Email" the iCloud menu for "Hide My Email" will pop up. After it loads I can "X" out of it and my actual email is then an option again. So now, instead of simply using the auto-fill email I have to either just manually type in my email, or click "Hide My Email" wait for it to load up, X out, then select my email for auto-fill.


I can't find any way in the settings for iCloud, safari, keyboad, etc to disable "Hide My Email". I was wondering if there was anyway to turn it off entirely.


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Mar 27, 2023 10:47 AM in response to Phil0124

Hi, thanks for replying! This part of your reply, "Hide My Email only shows up if you select the option to Sign in with Apple when you sign up the first time to a website" is actually not correct. The "Hide My Email" feature shows up as the only predictive option in the iOS keyboard for any email input field on any website. If you tap into an email entry text box on any website the iOS keyboard will only show "Hide My Email" instead of my actual email which it used to show as a predicted auto-fill option.


If I click "Hide My Email" the iCloud menu for "Hide My Email" will pop up. After it loads I can "X" out of it and my actual email is then an option again. So now, instead of simply using the auto-fill email I have to either just manually type in my email, or click "Hide My Email" wait for it to load up, X out, then select my email for auto-fill.


I can't find any way in the settings for iCloud, safari, keyboad, etc to disable "Hide My Email". I was wondering if there was anyway to turn it off entirely.


Mar 27, 2023 10:15 AM in response to ProfKillbot

I'm sorry, you post is a bit confusing.


Hide My Email only shows up if you select the option to Sign in with Apple when you sign up the first time to a website. If you choose to sign up with your own email address, Hide My Email would not show up at all.


And after you have chosen to hide your email, then it will use the unique email address it generated to sign in to said website always, so no need to for you to be using your own email then. It should never popup when just filling in a form.


What exactly are you seeing?

How do you entirely disable the "Hide My Email" feature? It is very disruptive.

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