iCloud email keeps removing my email from the Mac Mail account settings page!

Hi! For as long as I can remember, on my MacBook Pro (2017) 13.6.4 (22G513) in Mac Mail in my iCloud email only (Google/Exchange/AOL/Yahoo are fine - yes I have a lot of email addresses!), the account stays but my email addresses in the Account Information section of the Mail Setting just disappear and I have to add them back in, otherwise I cannot send from them (screenshot attached). Sometimes it's after a few hours, sometimes a few weeks.


This has always been a nuisance, but since I added a custom domain email to iCloud that I use for work it's become completely aggravating--mainly because it will default my work reply emails to one of my personal emails without asking me :-/


Why does the system delete my iCloud email addresses like this? The account is active and online. Over the years, I've tried deleting and adding the iCloud account and numerous other things. Hoping there is a simple fix. It seems completely silly that my iCloud email is the one that is misbehaving in Mac Mail 😂


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.6

Posted on Mar 6, 2024 4:04 PM

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Posted on Apr 30, 2024 3:12 PM

This is happening to me as well. I have replied to email from my main email address and it used my email I use for another company. This just started happening and I can not figure out why it is doing it. I have to keep putting my email back into the same field you are showing above.

Adding myself here in case there is a solution.

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Apr 30, 2024 3:12 PM in response to MissSuperYellow

This is happening to me as well. I have replied to email from my main email address and it used my email I use for another company. This just started happening and I can not figure out why it is doing it. I have to keep putting my email back into the same field you are showing above.

Adding myself here in case there is a solution.

Thanks

May 9, 2024 4:09 PM in response to MissSuperYellow

Me as well. Apple has a BUG that was created near the end of April, as that is when this started for me as well. No issues with my IPADs, iPHONES, but my MacBook (brand new M3) with absolutely NO VPN's keeps wiping out my email addresses, so it picks up a Hide my Address and messes everything up. How do we officially report this bug to be fixed?

Apr 22, 2024 10:38 AM in response to MissSuperYellow

UPDATE: I spent quite a while with Apple tech support on chat and they felt it was probably because of my Nord VPN… according to them, even if I don’t have the vpn connected the software causes this to happen. It really doesn’t make sense to me, since I have the vpn on my iPhone and that doesn’t lose my email addresses! If it is that, it’s something Apple needs to fix on their end because VPNs are an essential part of many work and non-work environments.

Apr 22, 2024 1:44 PM in response to MissSuperYellow

Same basic problem, but don’t have VPN or Private Relay or any other exotic accessories. For me, the disappearing email settings started a couple weeks ago on both the MacBook Pro (M1 Max 2021) and iMac (Intel chips), just as I was about to finally upgrade from Ventura. Additionally, however, on the Composing page of the Mail Settings, there are Gmail addresses for the iCloud account that do not belong there at all. (There is a separate email account that is not afflicted, as far as I can tell. Both machines are experiencing the same phenomenon, but on the MacBook, I lose the freshly re-entered email addresses every time I quit the app. (Oh yes, even when re-entered, they do not necessarily also become available on the Composing page.) The upgrade is on hold.


Anyone have any new clues as to the problem?

May 16, 2024 12:07 PM in response to idxjedi

Hi @idxjedi - it's soooo frustrating... I'm hoping to get a few more people on this thread reporting this is a problem so we can take this as proof to Apple Support that's it's not VPN related but an issue they need to figure out and fix. Even if a VPN or third party issue is causing it for certain users, they need to track it down and add the fix on their end!

May 17, 2024 4:45 PM in response to MissSuperYellow

The Apple server keeps pointing out the wrong things not that “iCloud email” is not working on their server. My friend has told me that there is the same ongoing issue in entire Europe and Africa. The engineers of Apple is not correcting the problem however focusing on the wrong things. “Like the weather that is currently highlighted on Apple - Support - System Status

As of Saturday may 11th on all my devices my emails are totally erased in apple mail app. Don’t have access to a computer however, when I do access iCloud email on safari or Google I still have over a year missing emails. Including daily mail missing. Still apple have not acknowledged the outage. Shame on them.


May 16, 2024 1:41 PM in response to MissSuperYellow

Reconfirming I have the same issue.

It happened today after three days not using my laptop, but I was using Mail on my iPhone and iPad without issue. It seems to be a Mail app issue Mac OS.

When it happens I go to Accounts and my iCloud account shows this - the email field is blank. (I have Outlook and Gmail accounts too, but this never happens to them).



When I select the email address box I get this:


As soon as I enter my email address it updates and shows my name and email again.

I know there is a way to report bugs directly to Apple (recall that they don't officially monitor these forums...), but I don't remember how... it's been a very long time since I did it.

Hopefully someone here can tell us.

May 15, 2024 7:35 AM in response to vickyvaughn

I don't recall mentioning this same phenomenon (vickyvaughn's post) in my initial entry concerning the problem of email addresses disappearing (and sometimes reappearing) in the Mail account settings, but this is another strange behavior. The Apple Mail account addresses and aliases will often be replaced by email addresses of another account, e.g., gmail, at least on the Composing screen. When that happens, I may not see any addresses on the Accounts screen. At the moment, the Settings are all correct, but that usually only lasts for a day or two.

May 17, 2024 4:26 PM in response to MissSuperYellow

My decades old apple email (IMAP) disappeared off macPro last week. Only iCloud was in my accounts so I entered my email and PW and all my email uploaded to my iCloud Drive and filled it up. I'll need the $11/mo storage plan to keep my email unless I can figure out how to get them back to my local drive.


Is this a glitch or a planned "feature" to get customers paying for upgraded iCloud Drive storage?

iCloud email keeps removing my email from the Mac Mail account settings page!

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