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Apple abandons plan to move Hide My Email addresses to @private.icloud.com
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Apple reversed its plan to move new Hide My Email addresses to the @private.icloud.com domain, which would have allowed websites to easily identify and block the masked addresses.
Keeping Hide My Email addresses on the standard @icloud.com domain preserves the feature's core privacy benefit of preventing websites from distinguishing masked addresses from real ones. The reversal highlights internal friction, as the Hide My Email team reportedly had strong objections to the original plan.
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Apple cancelled its plan to move new Hide My Email addresses to the @private.icloud.com domain.
The @private.icloud.com domain would have allowed websites to easily identify and block masked email addresses.
New Sign in with Apple addresses will still move to @private.icloud.com later this year.
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