What happens to Hide My Email emails if you cancel iCloud+? Do you lose access to the ones you've set up or can emails still be sent to them?
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iCloud What happens to Hide My Email emails if you cancel iCloud+?
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I’m interested in this as well, more from the point of view say if your payment method failed or some other issue which prevented payment from going through.
I’d hope the HMEs are retained, at least for a period of time.
I’d hope the HMEs are retained, at least for a period of time.
Update: So I let my iCloud+ account expire.
When this happens you lose access to managing ALL your Hide My Email emails. Yet you can't even see what the Hide My Email addresses are any longer.
But, people can still send emails to those emails. However, you apparently cannot reply to the emails with the Hide My Email address.
This is troubling...
When this happens you lose access to managing ALL your Hide My Email emails. Yet you can't even see what the Hide My Email addresses are any longer.
But, people can still send emails to those emails. However, you apparently cannot reply to the emails with the Hide My Email address.
This is troubling...
Thanks for testing that. So if someone plans to let iCloud+ expire, it would be wise to screenshot the hide my email list so that you can know what to update. I expected to not be able to send/reply to HME, but I hoped incoming would be OK (☑️) and there would still be a list to verify which addresses were in use (❌).
Thanks as well for testing. It would interesting to see if there is a grace period before email addresses are deleted (if they actually do, we don’t really know at this point). A bit like a deleted photo is permanently deleted after 40 days.
I did complete a feedback form to Apple raising the question in this thread but it’s highly unlikely to receive a response. It should be a simple job to update the iCloud+ support pages.
I did complete a feedback form to Apple raising the question in this thread but it’s highly unlikely to receive a response. It should be a simple job to update the iCloud+ support pages.
One point is that you can always find out the Hide My Email address from the emails you receive to that address, just look at address to which they are addressed.
Also wondering if anyone had more info/updates on this? There seems to be nothing official written in Apple support docs.
Also wondering if anyone had more info/updates on this? There seems to be nothing official written in Apple support docs.
I did contact Apple Support and they said you lose access, but I never trust 1st line support to be 100 % correct on slightly esoteric questions.