Apple Keeps Hide My Email on iCloud.com After Feedback

Apple has revised its plan to consolidate the email domains for two of its privacy-focused services, deciding to keep the iCloud Hide My Email feature on its current domain after receiving community feedback. The company announced on August 24, 2026, that it will no longer move Hide My Email addresses to the new private.icloud.com domain, a change it had originally outlined in June. However, the transition for Sign in with Apple addresses to the new domain will proceed as planned later this year.

The original plan, announced in mid-June, was to move newly generated addresses for both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email to private.icloud.com, unifying them under a single domain. Sign in with Apple currently uses privaterelay.appleid.com, while Hide My Email addresses are associated with the standard icloud.com domain. The decision to reverse the Hide My Email portion of the plan came after Apple reviewed community feedback, according to a developer update published on August 24.

The primary concern raised by users and developers was that moving Hide My Email to a distinct, identifiable domain like private.icloud.com would make it significantly easier for websites and platforms...