logo

Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap

ID: 48972e53-9042-54a6-a59c-13dede9c07c7

STIX ID: report--48972e53-9042-54a6-a59c-13dede9c07c7

Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
25/100

Date Published: 2026-08-25

Date Updated: 2026-08-25

Author: Zack Whittaker

...
...

Apple has reversed a planned change to its Hide My Email service, keeping masked addresses on @icloud.com after users criticized a proposed move to @private.icloud.com; the article also notes an earlier bug that caused masked addresses to leak users' real email addresses, which Apple later fixed.

Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.