How do I simply turn off "Hide my Email"?

How do I simply turn off "hide my email"?


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Posted on May 11, 2023 9:36 AM

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Posted on May 13, 2023 5:14 PM

The process to remove each Hide My Email address is straightforward:

Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > iCloud > Hide My Email >


For each of your listed Hide My Email addresses - tap, then select Deactivate Email Address

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May 11, 2024 6:57 PM in response to LotusPilot

LotusPilot, Ive manually deleted the addresses (that I didn't choose anyway!) and it just keeps choosing more and I have no way to put in my own email when it does that. I'm not trying to fill in any forms here, I'm just going about responding to my emails like I always have and suddenly I have this stupid feature I don't want making me send email response with some made up amail address.

May 11, 2024 7:52 PM in response to LotusPilot

The problem is that Apple wants to hide my email when writing an email.


Please understand that this is an entirely different issue than hiding an email on a website.


THIS:


I want to send an email - maybe to a friend, a colleague - someone who I know.

  • I click on "New Message"
  • A new message form appears, with the "From: Hide My Email" - not with my email.
  • I cannot delete "Hide My Email".
  • I cannot manually type in my email address.

I have no other options.


May 28, 2024 11:28 AM in response to Walter_from_MD

This is quite old to the post however, the now iCloud “hide my mail” was activated on my account without any option or notification. For some reason, it toll 4 of my passwords, random, and threw them into their nose cloud thing. Completely caused my Password program to no longer work with the four passwords thy moved. Plus it seems you can’t inactivate it. so every password in the future is supposed to go to this iCloud+ so it changes the email name to the recipient of the emails or to anyone else. This is the dumbest thing Apple has ever done!

Aug 11, 2024 5:20 PM in response to rroske_23

Once again, for those in the back. This discussion is about Hide My Email, in MacOS. There is no list of apps, and the only options available are to "Deactivate this address" and change the address to forward to.


Further, the question was not how to change the forwarding address, it was how to turn it off. There are at least three other threads on this same topic, and none of them has answered the fundamental question. And nobody at Apple seems to care.

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