Apple’s iOS 15.2 is nearly here, and it comes with a bunch of brilliant new iPhone features that will boost your privacy. The latest of these, launching in a few weeks when iOS 15.2 drops, is a feature that allows you to use the fantastic Hide My Email function from within your iPhone’s Mail app.
Hide My Email—which allows you to use an alternative email address when signing up to websites to hide your real credentials from marketers—launched with iOS 15. The new iOS 15.2 feature takes that one step further by allowing you to hide your email address when communicating with anyone you don’t know from within the Apple Mail app on your iPhone. You can scrap your Apple created addresses whenever you want, so you won’t have to receive any more email addresses from specific people if you don’t want to.
When you use Hide My Email in iOS 15.2, the emails you send will come up under the false address, but emails they send back will come to your hidden email account. That means pesky marketers can’t add you to databases and sell on your details to elsewhere, helping to keep your valuable data more private.
In typical Apple fashion, the new iOS 15.2 feature is ridiculously easy to use. Simply open your Mail app on your iPhone or iPad, tap the New Message icon and fill in the To field.
Then tap the Cc/Bcc, From field to collapse it and press From again. If you scroll down to the bottom you can select Hide My Email and Apple will compose you a fake address. Now you can write and send your email as normal.
Another reason to love iOS 15.2
The brilliant Hide My Email feature comes in addition to another one I am really excited about—the App Privacy Report—making iOS 15.2 a big update for iPhone privacy.
It does come with the iMessage child safety feature that has concerned many privacy advocates due to what it could mean in the long term. But the other brilliant iPhone features coming in iOS 15.2 still make this point upgrade crucial for your privacy.
