[DaiPlusPlus]

Apple’s Hide-my-email service is only useful to people who don’t have their own domain-name for email. I assume most of here on HM have a vanity dot-com or dot-me that we just point to GMail (or maybe Office 365 if you lean that way) - all those services (not to mention self-hosted) allow us to set arbitrary, catch-all, and disposable addresses (even the perpetually un-cool O365 supports it now too).

I’ll never use Apple’s Hide-my-email service until they let us use it with our own domain-names. It’s my email mailbox and my dodgy account registration, not Apple’s.

[signalblur]

I wouldn’t say it’s only useful for people without vanity domain names - it also adds a level anonymity should the user database get leaked (IE: it’ll be a random HME account that will look like every other, vs your specific domain name)

Also FWIW you can use it with custom domains - I use it with fastmail and have since day one (their version of it isn’t as tightly integrated as Apple but they offer this service as well). Hope this helps!

[DaiPlusPlus]

> Also FWIW you can use it with custom domains

To confirm, you're saying that Apple will generate something like "[e-mail]"? If so, how can I set that up? I don't see any relevant settings on my phone's iCloud settings page.

[mimischi]

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/icloud-custom-email-d...

[DaiPlusPlus]

That document says in roder to do that you need to migrate to using iCloud Mail - oh well.

[faeriechangling]

Hide my email is useful for avoiding linking accounts to a common identifier.