I wish I could customize the email address like I can do with current mail aliases. I currently use Abine's Blur for masked emails which let's you do this. You can reply to can email from the alias but not initiate one from it. So Apple has an advantage with that feature.
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iOS 15: How to Use Hide My Email
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It’s setup so that neither Apple, Nor the third party know what you’re requesting.
CSAM is done client-side so no data leaves your device or decrypts your photos in the cloud making them accessible and vulnerable. It’s safer than what the competition does.
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Does this "Hide My eMail" feature iclude hiding it from Apple? 
j/k
j/k
Love this feature. Thank you Apple!
But stop scanning my iCloud pictures wtf!🤬
But stop scanning my iCloud pictures wtf!🤬
FYI - Just tried your suggestion but received a permanent error saying "the email account that you tried to reach does not exist". I used a fake extension like "mygmailacct_testemail@gmail.com"
I believe it should be a plus symbol:
realemail+companyname@gmail.com
However some forms either don't accept that or quietly remove the part after the + anyway
Why apple would check all photos/ messages but give the option to have 100 aliases to a hypothetical child molester ?!
I don’t get it even if the aliases is a great idea for normal users.
Thanks for that! Also why is this hidden in the iCloud menu no one I know ever opens and not part of I don’t know .. the MAIL menu?
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The 100 aliases feature seems to require you to relay all emails through Apple's services – so that's the way Apple could look into your mails...
I would never do enable this, I would also recommend to never use iCloud Keychain, so that all you passwords are stored in iCloud !
preferably a google or especially a Yahoo email. Does anyone on earth actually use yahoo for personal email? I gave up on google when a hacker emailed me my own gmail password asking for bitcoin in return for not sending pics of myself playing around to my contacts.
The relay feature isn’t more or less safe than your iCloud mail account.
They don’t look into your mails, they don’t look into your photos or messages. And they can’t access your passwords.
they do CLIENT-SIDE checks of your iCloud photos, they don’t analyse or view their content.
I never used it , like I never used any password app, I created my own
In regard to reading my emails..well the ones I would use it it wouldn't matter, it's just to avoid spam and unsolicited email from big and small companies, same method for my iCloud email and the 3 aliases allowed right now.
I love the concept but having to pick n' chose which sites I actually use this feature or not, is a weird compromise considering the quite limited implications this has on Apple's end. I am using it now, for 100 accounts. So it's useful there, but not for the majority of my account and thus not that useful in the long run.
That works-thanks. On 2nd thought this still exposes your real gmail address to recipient.
Different one for each address can help spot a breach. This will allow you to get a jump in changing email and password. Other benefit is it’s harder to track you because no two sites have the same password (obvs it’s also good to minimize as much static PII as possible like phone number for 2FA, using ios15 authenticator where you can.)
Agree on the concern.
Apple claims to do a pure relay, only scanning for spam as required to keep a trusted provider certification. They delete immediately after relay. And Note both GMAIL and Yahoo and others Scan users mails.
I don’t see Apple as worse than their email provider competition here.
Lol. I haven’t reused a password since iOS added iCloud Keychain around 2014 and before that between 2007 and 2014 my passwords were uniquely modular, eg lowsec88mr or highsec99usb or highsec99am for Mac rumors, US Bank and AMEX respectively (obviously anyone who saw the pattern could have cracked it); key chain came along in the nick of time as the modular approach was also long in the tooth.
About 3 years ago I partially implemented unique addresses using gmail, eg rob+001@gmail .com and kept incrementing the numeric part.
Downside was many sites wouldn’t accept a + in the email address. It was also a lot of work to change over so I suspended the exercise. Didn’t know about gmail’s _ option only knew of the +.
I am converting to the HME set up tho. Hit the 100 hard limit a couple weeks ago. Am glad the limit was lifted today.