Apple will be bringing Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email under one email domain, according to a new announcement for Developers. These are privacy features that require an iCloud+ subscription, where users can create a temporary email address to sign up for various websites and platforms. These temporary email addresses forward emails to the primary iCloud email address, but it can be turned off if you do not wish to receive emails from that specific website. Sign in with Apple allows users to sign up for a website or platform, and users are given an option to share or hide their primary email address.
A new change to these features will be coming later this summer, where “Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com.”
According to Apple, “New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. For example:
- Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on
privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued onprivate.icloud.com.
- iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses, previously issued on
icloud.com, will be issued onprivate.icloud.com.
Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.”
As implied, users who are currently using these features with existing addresses will be unaffected, and this change will only apply to new addresses created when this change comes into effect later this summer. App developers will be required to update their account systems and email validation to work with the new address alongside the previous one.
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