In effect, you're scrambling your tracks. Hide My Email lets you generate random email addresses when you fill out an online form or sign up for a website, so you don't always have to give out your real address. (If you're already an iCloud subscriber, your account will automatically get upgraded to iCloud Plus when it's released with iOS 15.) To take advantage of it, you'll have to pay for the premium upgrade that ranges monthly from $1 to $10.
The feature, called Hide My Email, is part of a trio of new privacy-focused services for iCloud users with iCloud Plus. 20 (Here's how to download iOS 15 and how to check if your iPhone can run iOS 15.) Although we first saw it at WWDC in June, the Hide My Email feature will finally appear with iOS 15's release on Monday, Sept.
Apple has taken aim at spam with its tool called Hide My Email, which thins out inboxes by keeping junk emails from showing up in the first place. Some spam is sent with malicious intent, but a lot of it boils down to harmless email clogging up your inbox, creating a cacophony of advertisements you don't want to see and time-consuming work to delete or unsubscribe.
