Protect your email address

Lock out hackers and spammers in just a few clicks

- Alex Blake

With hackers and data brokers desperately coveting your email address, it’s important to keep your private data safe. With Apple’s Hide My Email feature, you can create unlimited unique email addresses wherever you log in. Anything sent to these addresses is automatically forwarded to your personal inbox, and any replies you send will appear to come from the Hide My Email address. This ensures your primary email address doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. If an address created by Hide My Email gets leaked, you can just disable it, and because Hide My Email creates a new address for each app and account you use, none of your other logins will be affected.

It’s built into 'Sign in with Apple' and iCloud+, which means you need a paid subscription to access it. You’ll also need macOS 12 (Monterey) or later, macOS 12.1 or later for Hide My Email in Mail, and macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later for Hide My Email with Apple Pay. Let’s see how it all works.

HOW TO Use Hide My Email in apps

1 Set up in Safari

In Safari, click the email address field, then select Hide My Email. This will automatically create a random email address for you. Click the refresh arrow if you want to change it, and you can add a note if you like, then click Use.

2 Manage in Mail