Could be he mistook a - for the +. The plus works but not all site profiles accept it. Ps Other symbols like the . are ignored by gmail. No experience with the _.
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iOS 15: How to Use Hide My Email
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Could be he mistook a - for the +. The plus works but not all site profiles accept it. Ps Other symbols like the . are ignored by gmail. No experience with the _.
I’ve filed bug reports to Apple on this too. Both SIA and HME should be integrated into iCloud Keychain Password interface.
The way it’s set up it’s hard to convert to the unique email system and difficult to have an overview.
Average users will get frustrated by the crap multiple interfaces and give up.
This is the other reason I suspended converting my online accounts to a +001 +002 set up.
For the most part it is like that.
Apple’s big failure was not integrating it and SIWA into Passwords. It’s super confusing and clumsy (not for me but for most folks I know, they will think it’s crap and give up.)
I take it to an extra level.
I don’t want to be predictable and let the hackers find a trend.
Instead of doing macrumors@test.com or no-reply+macrumors@test.com, I do no-reply+macrumors_gxr2a@test.com.
The last 5 alphanumeric chars make sure that it cannot be guessed from the name of the service.
Then you'll have to play the old 'INIT' game. Remember that from years ago????? Turn half off....reboot...test....turn other half off.....remember?
I don't get that part either. In the expanded MR guide, it says:
"Hide My Email works for both receiving and sending emails. If you respond to an incoming email that was sent to a Hide My Email address in the Mail app, Apple will continue to obscure your email address in the reply." (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-privacy/)
But when I test this by replying to a Hide My Email email, the reply is from my default email account (which is an iCloud account). There isn't a way to select any address other than my normal Apple ID emails and aliases.
Some been living under a rock or just won't care about Apple's CSAM. But I guess many people will forget about their integrity the moment Apple starts with some smoke and mirrors with iPhone 13 to distract people and make them go all in accepting it without complains. For iPhone 14 and iOS16 Apple will introduce something else, it's just a matter of tiptoeing in so people eventually gets used to it.
100 is definitely not enough!
I use a random email for each service/newsletter/anything with my domain. Currently I have about 250 random email addresses and still counting upwards.
This plus the private relay feature sound gold plated. I know you have to sign up and pay monthly, but it'll be way more value for money than Apple Arcade or Apple TV plus.
ha, yeah maybe. I thought you’d be able to more easily see which email alias had been broken. If you know that ’myemailalias@icloud.com’ has been used for an account with ‘totallylegitshopping.com’, wont You be able to see that spam is coming to that same alias, and then deal with that website? Or will things be more hidden than that, and you’ll only see that the email arrived to the collecting email address rather than knowing which alias it was? With the current three aliases that you can set up with iCloud, you can tell which one was used. Hope it will be the same with this service.
Having a unique email address for each company/website/service gives you more granular control over managing emails from just that sender; you couldn't do that if you're clustering or just have a single, generic secondary email address.
The current inability to send an email from one of these generated email addresses is a potential issue.
I've previously had problems with a receive-only email alias of my own* where a company's privacy policies meant they refused to deal with my emails unless they were sent from the same email account I'd registered with. Even when I said they could send an authentication code to that email address and I'd be able to confirm it to prove I had control of the email address, it was something they couldn't cope with.
*a legacy of Apple's .mac, mobile me and iCloud's lack of ability to merge accounts - thanks for still not having sorted this out Tim.
I've previously had problems with a receive-only email alias of my own* where a company's privacy policies meant they refused to deal with my emails unless they were sent from the same email account I'd registered with. Even when I said they could send an authentication code to that email address and I'd be able to confirm it to prove I had control of the email address, it was something they couldn't cope with.
*a legacy of Apple's .mac, mobile me and iCloud's lack of ability to merge accounts - thanks for still not having sorted this out Tim.
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Your use case might be an outlier in the grand scheme of things. For the overwhelming majority (myself included) this might just be enough, so your statement could be more personalized.
The 100 accounts is a moot point as the limit was lifted earlier this week.
I’m presently at 135 HME addresses or so, and expect to hit around 200 when I’m done converting all my online accounts to HME.
For consistency’s and simplicity’s sake, I think I will eventually convert my about 25 existing SIWA accounts to HME format as well.
No need to play favorites or make Solomonic strategic decisions between accounts now. Haha.
Once the ability to reply from any HME addresses is activated, this system, except for the Balkanized nature and lack of a single integrated Passwords, SIWA, HME, page will be pretty good.
After all, these 3 things have tremendous content and functional use overlap, and scattering them into three different sections of settings, with a lack of common interface theme, reduces utility by making it clumsy (tapping like crazy up out of one section and down into a different section and back again), confusing (difficult to get an overview) and frustrating for average users. This will limit uptake and limit the beneficial potential of these features for customers. (Also for Apple if it is looking for this to be a super sticky feature.)
If Apple remains true to their preview materials, sending from the HME addresses will be possible. (I’m curious to see how that send interface looks when one has a couple hundred single entity addresses to choose from. Replying wouldn’t be so hard but initiating a new mail would require an overview of related entities to pick from.)
Can’t lie, I don’t know why Apple hasn’t offered, or forced, a pathway for combining Mac, me and iCloud based addresses as well as the ability to purpose create more than a small handful. (Why can’t a user create their own HME address if they want in addition to the automatically created ones? Are they concerned about vulgarity or something attached to “@iCloud dot com”?)
Well, that sounds good - everyone, and perhaps all use cases covered. I skipped the betas this year, so yet to try this out. Your post is insightful.
The public betas have run well on my 6S and iPad Air 2 (oldest iOS 15 supported devices.)
Meanwhile, on non beta iOS 14.7, both my mom and sister have each had pairing problems between their Apple Watch 6 and iPhone 11.
This isnt’ slow … this is proper useful and tangible news - that all iOS users could benefit from.
I’d rather this as news vs junk about Hank Azaria playing Tim Cook in a series about Uber. It’s not even about Apple just a few sections playing Tim. It’s not really useful nor tangible for all iOS users.