Apple to Merge Private Mail Domains for Sign In and Hide My Email
Apple is cleaning up one of the quieter corners of its privacy infrastructure. The company announced Monday that new relay email addresses for Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email will soon use the same domain: private.icloud.com. The change is expected to roll out later this summer and could require developers, corporate networks, and email providers to update validation rules and allowlists. For users, the shift should be mostly invisible. For the systems that process Apple’s masked email addresses, it is a small domain change with enough routing and filtering implications to deserve a closer look. What changes for users and developers For everyday users, the transition should be largely invisible. Apple has confirmed that you will not lose access to any accounts created under the older system. “Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption,” Apple says. However, the change does require some quick homework for corporate network administrators and software developers. Apple is advising app and web developers to review their account …
