Find My offline supportĪpple also announced changes to how its Find My service works. So it's easy to set up as many addresses as you need and delete them at any time, keeping you in control," Abbott said.īoth Private Relay and Hide My Email have been previously announced at the WWDC 2019 conference and have been available in limited ways to users before becoming broadly available part of iCloud+.
"It's built right into Mail, Safari, and iCloud Settings.
Unfortunately, the new Private Relay offering will not be provided in countries such as Belarus, China, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines.Īpple cited "regulatory reasons," but security experts were quick to point out that Apple copped out to local governments and was withholding this important feature from users who actually needed it the most.īut iCloud+ will also come with an additional privacy-centered feature.Ĭalled Hide My Email, the feature is pretty self-explanatory, allowing users to generate random emails they can provide to shady sites and then forward any incoming messages to the user's inbox without revealing their real address. "It's designed so that no one, including Apple, can see both who you are and what sites you're visiting," said Mike Abbott, VP of Apple Cloud Services.Īpple said the new feature will be part of iCloud+, a paid version of the iCloud service that Apple plans to launch later this year. Private Relayīy far, the most important of the new Apple privacy features is a new service called Private Relay.ĭescribed as a VPN service, Private Relay will take a user's Safari browser traffic and relay it through two proxy nodes in order to hide the user's identity from snooping network parties, such as content delivery networks and internet service providers. At its annual developer conference on Monday, Apple announced updates to its considerable product portfolio, including iOS 15 and macOS 12 "Monterey," the new versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems.īut besides the new releases, Apple also announced a raft of privacy and security-focused enhancements to old and new services in what has slowly become an annual WWDC tradition, with Apple investing more and more resources in keeping its users secure.
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