A popular tool on iPhones and other Apple devices that hides emails has a flaw that reveals users’ personal addresses, researchers claim. Hide My Email creates disposable @icloud.com email addresses ...

Have you ever shopped at an online store once, and then found yourself dealing with a constant influx of marketing spam emails for weeks and even months? Virtually every online service wants me to ...

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Turns out the “Hide” part of Hide My Email wasn’t doing its job quite as advertised, something that I covered early in July. Security researcher Tyler Murphy reported the flaw in June 2025, but ...

The company launched the email aliases feature, which forwards messages from a dummy address to your main email account.

AppleInsider can confirm that it's pretty easy to get somebody's real email from Hide My Email, but it's also not much of a concern. If you're using the feature as intended as a spam filter, there's ...

Hide My Email is a great way to subscribe to things or use online, but an iCloud mail alias can give you up to three alternate email addresses for business or pleasure. Apple introduced Hide My Email ...

Hide My Email is supposed to keep your real address off signup forms — but a year-old bug means it may not be doing that. Apple’s Hide My Email has one job — to keep your real inbox out of other ...