How to Create Disposable Email Addresses on iOS 15

iOS 15 brings many notable new features. We have listed most of them in this folder. There is one in particular that should be of interest to the more careful people. It will indeed allow them to create disposable email addresses to prevent their personal address from falling into the wrong hands.

It’s not much of a revelation, but emails have replaced mail and faxes. From now on, and with a few exceptions, all exchanges are carried out by this means.

While email is very practical, technology has unfortunately also been diverted from its original use. Many of us are seeing our inbox invaded by advertising emails or even by phishing.

The advantage of disposable email addresses

Apple, for its part, therefore had the idea of ​​integrating in iOS 15 a function allowing users to create disposable email addresses, addresses that can be easily deleted.

The interest of the thing? It is simple. All the addresses created through this service refer to the user’s personal address, but the latter is not directly used when registering for the various services that interest him.

Concretely, therefore, these disposable email addresses act as a bit of a buffer between your personal address and the web.

By extension, this also means that they will allow you to know which services are reselling your data (a bit like this tip for Gmail), but also to quickly get rid of a rotten email address by spam and spam. phishing attempts.

Prerequisites to take advantage of this function

However, before going any further and explaining to you in detail how these disposable addresses work, it is probably best to start by listing the prerequisites necessary for their creation.

This function is in fact not available to everyone. Overall, the following two conditions must therefore be met:

1. Have a terminal running iOS 15;
2. Benefit from an iCloud subscription;

Regarding this second point, know that the basic subscription is billed for a few euros per month. And it will also allow you to have a little more storage.

How to create and manage disposable addresses in iOS 15

Now is the time to get down to business and calmly explain how to create and manage your disposable addresses in the all new version of iOS.

And as you will be able to see, the procedure is not very complicated.

Create a new disposable address

First, we’ll explain how to create a disposable address on iOS 15:

1. Unlock your iPhone;
2. Go to settings;
3. Tap on your avatar at the top;
4. Tap on iCloud;
5. Tap on “hide my email address”;
6. Wait for the module to load;
7. Tap on “create a new address”;
8. Wait for the creation of the address;
9. A window appears with the generated address;
10. Tap on “continue” to validate your creation;
11. Add a label to the address;
12. Add a note to the address;

Adding a label is important. Thanks to the latter, you will indeed be able to know in what context you used your new address. It may also be wise to fill in the field devoted to notes to see a little more clearly.

Also note that the process is automated. You cannot choose your disposable address. IOS 15 takes care of everything for you. However, if the address does not please you, you can generate a new one during the creation procedure, by clicking on the dedicated button.

Another important point, once the address has been created, you will be redirected to the start screen dedicated to disposable addresses and you will find a new option at the bottom to choose the address to which messages sent to your new e-mail will be redirected. mail. Useful if you have multiple accounts on your phone.

Delete a disposable address

Now suppose that one of your disposable addresses is targeted by massive advertising campaigns. To avoid cluttering up your main address, it may be wise to delete it.

Again, the procedure is not very complicated:

1. Unlock your iPhone;
2. Go to settings;
3. Tap on your avatar at the top;
4. Tap on iCloud;
5. Tap on “hide my email address”;
6. Wait for the module to load;
7. Tap on the address to delete;
8. The address file opens;
9. Tap on “deactivate e-mail address” at the very bottom;
10. Validate by clicking on “deactivate” in the small window;
11. Wait a few seconds for the operation to end;
12. The address is deleted;

Above all, do not hesitate to delete an address that is too busy. The advantage of this function is precisely to be able to create and delete addresses on the fly. On the other hand, it will be inadvisable to use these disposable addresses to register for a social network, for example, or a banking site. In case of deletion, you risk seeing your account blocked.