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iCloud is there a limit for Hide My Email?
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I am sure that there is some practical limit, but if the email address is 8 characters, adding a 9th character would add a minimum of 36 x the number of current email addresses in the pool, assuming that the extra character is a number (0-1) or alpha (a-z)... if you use upper and lower case, that increases the number of addressees by 82 x...
82 to the 10th power = 13.7 QUINTILLION emails addresses.
I'd say it's nothing to be overly concerned about.
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In other words there’s NO limit and I can just continue switching ALL website’s where I’ve ever created an account to a Hide-My-Email-address? Because that’s what I’d like to do. It’s cool cause that’d also expose websites who leak my address to 3rd parties without my knowin’…
I think the service is a great idea, but I can't tell you how many times it fails for me.
It generates a new email address and then gives me the error that, "A Hide My Email Address could not be created for Somebody <SoAndSo@gmail.com>. Do you want to send it anyway?"
Or it works, and then you get a reply, but cannot reply to the reply? You can't even remove the address you're replying to. It's greyed out. You have open a new email and copy and paste everything over (the exact same info) and then it works, but c'mon, Apple. Drop some AppleCash on the Mail.app?
It generates a new email address and then gives me the error that, "A Hide My Email Address could not be created for Somebody <SoAndSo@gmail.com>. Do you want to send it anyway?"
Or it works, and then you get a reply, but cannot reply to the reply? You can't even remove the address you're replying to. It's greyed out. You have open a new email and copy and paste everything over (the exact same info) and then it works, but c'mon, Apple. Drop some AppleCash on the Mail.app?
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I literally just had this message pop up today. Not the first error message I had with Hide my Email but its the first of this kind.
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Right? This is such a good idea and some huge bug in implementation. I'm running 12.4 on all modern hardware, clean Install OS etc....
And don't get me started on the whole "blocked email" filtering "function" that Apple keeps saying exists. It still will not send anything to the trash. Never.
I want Apple to either block entire domains I send them and bounce them back to sender (like I can do on the domains I own) or give me access to do the same. Apple's Spam filtering has really fallen in the past 3-5 years for my Mac.com addresses.
Mick
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Not to mention I’m trying to create a new personal alias address in my iCloud account for a new group I’m running and it’s now saying I can’t create one despite only currently using one of my 3 available aliases.
Gotta be a bug. If you're courageous, you could sit on the phone with Apple and report back?
I just feel like this is sealed container stuff we can't fix because they don't give us access.
what icloud+ subscription are you now? the 50 GB or the other. maybe if we pay the 200 GB version the limit will increase from 750 emails to maybe 1000 or more
whelp, thats unfortunate. I was becoming more and more motivated to make the leap. my wife gave my email to the local hospital. naturally they just had a breach. only a matter of time before the scum of the earth begin doing what they do.
i have 822 logins it looks like, and with any luck i have some decades left on this rock. sooooooo a limit is going to pose a conundrum.
having never used it, or even entertained it until now... are these addresses all automagically generated? editable? able to be labeled? even though id rather not, it would at least afford me a way around a cap of 750.
I just ran into this. My understanding was there is no limit. That there was no explicit limit stated in advertising materials is BS and frankly bait and switch. I wouldn’t have converted all my online accounts to home if I knew one day I’d have to find an alternative. Bad on Apple.
And it's especially bad that it's a paid service of all things. On the other hand, DuckDuckGo advertises that their email protection service has no limits on the amount of addresses you can create, and its completely free and even has tracker removal during the forwarding process. My only complaint is its not as user friendly as Apple's Hide my Email, it does not work with the Mail app nor Safari or any third party apps, so I always have to open it in the DuckDuckGo browser, which annoyingly lacks contact autofill. DuckDuckGo also does not assign a website or recipient email when you generate an address unlike Apple.