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Oh I glad there is still someone at Apple who understood its insanity. If only they made it generate a bit more sensible alias names.

UPD: I obviously mean alias addresses template make most of them too easy to recognize.



Can't the aliases be renamed?

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Just checked, they can. Phew. If the forwarding alias was detectable/always used the same schema, that'd also make them borderline useless, just like the `privaterelay` subdomain


What do you mean renamed? Alias address certainly are not changeable. You can randomize next one from 2-3 options, but most of them still follow pattern that is easy to recognize.

PS: I guess its just misunderstsnding and I really meant addresses themself are not human-like enough.


But the private relay domain is only used when you sign up through “Sign in with Apple”? A thing you have to support if your iOS app already supports sign up with other third party authentication providers.


Yeah, I don't really get the excitement. The pattern in which these aliases are generated might as well just end with private.icloud.com.

Is [email protected] really that hard to detect as hide my email?




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