Use email aliases on iCloud.com

An email alias is an email address that conceals your primary email address from a recipient. An alias can help you manage the email you receive and monitor the sources of unwanted messages. You can both send and receive email from an email alias. With iCloud Mail, you can have up to three active email aliases.

You can’t use an email alias to sign in to iCloud.com, and you can’t use an alias to create a separate Apple ID. An email alias can’t be converted to a primary email account.

Note: If you had five MobileMe email aliases when you moved your account to iCloud, you retain the five aliases. However, if you delete one of your five aliases, you can’t create a new one to replace it.

Create an email alias In Mail on iCloud.com, click in the sidebar, then choose Preferences. If you don’t see the sidebar, see Show or hide the sidebar in Mail on iCloud.com. Click Accounts, then click “Add an alias.” Provide the requested information: Alias: The text you provide becomes the email address (alias@icloud.com). An alias must contain between 3 and 20 characters.

Full Name: The name you provide appears in the From field of the messages you send.

Label: iCloud Mail uses the label to categorize messages sent to the alias. Alias labels appear only in Mail on iCloud.com.

Label Color: Select a color for the label. Click OK, then click Done.

Change alias preferences In Mail on iCloud.com, click in the sidebar, then choose Preferences. If you don’t see the sidebar, see Show or hide the sidebar in Mail on iCloud.com. Click Accounts, select the alias in the Addresses list, then do any of the following: Change the Label: Enter a new label in the text field. Alias labels appear only in Mail on iCloud.com.

Choose a new color for the label: Click a Label Color option.

Change the Full Name: Enter a new name in the text field. Click Done.

Turn off, turn on, or delete an alias You can turn an email alias on or off at any time. You can also delete email aliases that you no longer want to use. While turning off an email alias is temporary, deleting it is permanent. When an alias is turned off or deleted, email sent to that alias is returned to the sender. In Mail on iCloud.com, click in the sidebar, then choose Preferences. If you don’t see the sidebar, see Show or hide the sidebar in Mail on iCloud.com. Click Accounts, select the alias in the Addresses list, then do any of the following: Turn off an alias: Select “Disable alias.”

Turn on an alias: Deselect “Disable alias.”

Delete an alias: Click Delete. Click Done. Note: You can’t delete or turn off a primary @icloud.com email address.

Set a default address to send from In Mail on iCloud.com, click in the sidebar, then choose Preferences. If you don’t see the sidebar, see Show or hide the sidebar in Mail on iCloud.com. Click Composing, click the “Set a default address” pop-up menu, then choose the address you usually use. In the list of addresses, select the ones you want to be able to send from in iCloud Mail. The selected addresses appear in the From pop-up menu when you create a new message. See Write and send email in Mail on iCloud.com.