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Use Hide My Email on Mac
With Hide My Email, you can generate unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal email account, so you don’t have to share your real email address when filling out a form on the web or signing up for a newsletter. You can choose to forward emails to your iCloud Mail address or any email address associated with your Apple ID.
To learn what you can do with Hide My Email on your iOS and iPadOS devices and on iCloud.com, see Set up and use Hide My Email in iCloud+ on all your devices.
To use Hide My Email, you need to subscribe to iCloud+ or to Apple One, which includes iCloud+ and other services. See the Apple Support article Bundle Apple subscriptions with Apple One.
Note: iCloud+ may not be available in all countries or regions, and iCloud+ features may vary by area. See the macOS Feature Availability webpage.
Automatically create a new address in Safari or Mail
In Safari and Mail, you can automatically generate a unique, random address by clicking in the email address field and choosing Hide My Email. See Hide your personal email address in Safari and Use Hide My Email in Mail.
Manually create a new address in iCloud settings
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click [your name] at the top of the sidebar.If you don’t see your name, click “Sign in with your Apple ID,” enter your Apple ID (or a Reachable At email address or phone number that you added in Apple ID settings), then enter your password. If you don’t have an Apple ID, you can create one.
Click iCloud on the right, then click Hide My Email. (You may need to scroll down.)
Click the Add button
in the lower-left corner.
A dialog appears and displays a randomly created iCloud email address.
Tip: To generate a new random iCloud email address, click the Refresh button
.
Enter a label for your email and a note to help you remember how you use this email address, then click Continue.
After your address is created, click Copy Address to copy the email address to the Clipboard.
When you’re finished, click Continue, then click Done.
Manage addresses created with Hide My Email
You can copy an address, change labels, create new addresses, deactivate or delete addresses, and select the personal email address you want email forwarded to.
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click [your name] at the top of the sidebar.If you don’t see your name, click “Sign in with your Apple ID,” enter your Apple ID (or a Reachable At email address or phone number that you added in Apple ID settings), then enter your password. If you don’t have an Apple ID, you can create one.
Click iCloud on the right, then click Hide My Email. (You may need to scroll down.)
If requested, enter your Apple ID password and click Continue.
In the options that appear, do any of the following:
Edit a label: Select an address on the left, click Edit next to Label on the right, make changes to the label, then click Done.
Edit a note: Select an address on the left, click Edit next to Note on the right, make changes to the note, then click Done.
Deactivate an address: Select an address on the left, click Deactivate Email Address on the right, then click Deactivate.
Reactivate an inactive address: Click the Options button
in the lower-left corner, then click Show Inactive Addresses. Select an inactive address in the list on the left, click Reactivate Address on the right, click Reactivate, then click Done.
Delete an inactive address: Click the the Options button
in the lower-left corner, then click Show Inactive Addresses. Select an inactive address in the list on the left, click Delete Address, click Delete, then click Done.
Choose a personal email address to forward to: If you have more than one personal email address, click the Options button
in the lower-left corner, then click Change Forwarding Address. Select the address that Hide My Email should forward mail to, then click Done.
Click Done.
For information about iCloud+ features in Safari, see the Safari User Guide.