https://www.optout.ws/tags/apple-privacy/Recent content in Apple Privacy on OptOut.wsHugo -- gohugo.ioenOptOut.wsTue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.optout.ws/post/how-to-use-apple-hide-my-email-and-mail-privacy-protection/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.optout.ws/post/how-to-use-apple-hide-my-email-and-mail-privacy-protection/ <h2 id="two-apple-tools-that-attack-spam-from-opposite-ends">Two Apple Tools That Attack Spam From Opposite Ends</h2> <p>Most anti-spam advice treats the inbox as the battlefield, but by the time a message lands there the damage is already done: your real address is on a list, and the sender likely knows the moment you open the email. Apple ships two features that move the fight upstream, and they solve different halves of the problem. Hide My Email stops your real address from ever reaching the sender in the first place, and Mail Privacy Protection stops the sender from learning what you do with the message once it arrives. Used together they cut off both the address leak and the surveillance that follows it, which is why it is worth setting up both rather than picking one.</p>