iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customise and use the homepage
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Hide your photos and videos
- Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Upload and download photos
- Add a title or caption
- Organise photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favourites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Share photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
Stop using, reactivate or delete a Hide My Email address on iCloud.com
If you create an email address with Hide My Email on iCloud.com or on an Apple device but you want to stop using it, you can go to the iCloud+ Features page on iCloud.com to deactivate it.
You can reactivate the address at any time or permanently delete any inactive addresses you no longer need.
Note: If you want to manage email addresses created with Sign in with Apple, see the Apple Support article Manage your apps with Sign in with Apple.
Stop using an address created with Hide My Email
On iCloud.com, click in the toolbar, then click Hide My Email.
Select the email address you want to stop using.
Click “Deactivate email address”, then follow the on-screen instructions.
When you stop using a unique random address, any emails sent to that address are returned to the sender.
Reactivate an inactive address
On iCloud.com, click in the toolbar, then click Hide My Email.
Scroll to the bottom of the list, then select an address below “[number] inactive email address(es)”.
Click “Reactivate address”, then follow the on-screen instructions.
Delete an inactive address
You can only delete inactive addresses.
Important: Deleting an address created with Hide My Email is permanent, and the address is deleted on all your devices set up for Hide My Email. You cannot reactivate a deleted address.
On iCloud.com, click in the toolbar, then click Hide My Email.
Scroll to the bottom of the list, then select an address below “[number] inactive email address(es)”.
Click “Delete address”, then follow the on-screen instructions.