The approach of Hide My Email, which is part of iCloud +, is that we can use an alias which, when receiving an email, forwards it to our real address. This ensures that we can subscribe to services or websites without giving out our real address or exposing ourselves to spam. In iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2 and macOS 12.1 Apple extends the use of this tool allowing us create a new address from the same Mail application.
A spam proof system
Beyond the convenience of being able to create the address from the Mail application, the great novelty of this system is that now we can start a communication directly from a hidden address. Before the Hide, my email addresses were only entered and although we could reply from these addresses, communication could not be initiated by us.
Use the Mail app, either in our iPhone, iPad or MacCreating a Hide my email address is very easy. The exact steps are as follows:
- We open the Mail app on our iPhone, iPad or Mac.
- Touch the square-shaped button with a superimposed pencil to write a new email.
- On the iPhone or iPad we touch Cc / Cco, From: to deploy it.
- In the countryside Of: instead of our usual email, we select Hide my email.
- We compose the message and send it.
As simple as that. As soon as we press the button we will see that a specific address is generated from which mail will be sent once we decide to send it. An address where we will receive replies normally and which will not be reused the next time we decide to write an email to another recipient using the Hide my email option.
With the amount of emails we send and receive every day, being able to communicate without having to expose our real address is extremely helpful. In the end, there is no better protection against spam than being able to completely delete one of these aliases so that you no longer receive all the emails sent to it. It is simple and efficient.
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