I have an alias email on iCloud alongside my regular iCloud email, and notice when I use the alias one and then receive a reply, people call me by my real name, and see that my real name is disclosed on the alias.
What's the point of having an alias then?
How do I hide my name on the alias mail?
Hello tipsycat,
The point of Hide My Email is to anonymize your email address, not your identity. You can suggest this feature to Apple - Product Feedback - Apple, but this is the indented functionality today. You should continue to do it however to hide your real email to stop spammers and scammers.
I hope this helps!
Many thanks for your reply.
I’m not referring to the ‘Hide My Mail’ option when creating an email which creates a random address that forwards to my inbox - I’m referring to the alias you create on iCloud.com / Preferences / Accounts which you can create up to 3 aliases. Here you can also change the Full Name too. I've used this for years.
I believe the creating an Alias on iCloud has been around for a while vs the Hide My Mail which seems to be a more recent option - these are 2 different things. I use the Alias for a website I run and need the address to be specific instead of a generated one.
Hope that makes sense .......
Hi Tipsycat, did you manage to get this fixed? I have exactly the same issue…
Alias email shows my real name
