Apple today said it is reversing its decision and will not change the email domain used for the iCloud+ Hide My Email feature.
After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com.
In June, Apple said it would unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com domain. iPhone users expressed concern that moving Hide My Email to a private.icloud.com domain instead of icloud.com would let platforms easily block iCloud aliases. Using the same domain for iCloud and Hide My Email makes it hard for services to block the disposable iCloud addresses because doing so would also block legitimate users.