Protect Your Email Privacy by Turning on This iPhone and Mac Setting

Thanks to a macOS Monterey 12.5.1 confidence update earlier this week, Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection feature has some new enhancements aimed at at safeguarding your email. Originally released in September 2021, Apple’s email protection option is also available to iPhone users with iOS 15. And now you can check out its new anti-tracking systems and eavesdropping alerts.

“Mail Privacy Protection helps defensive your privacy by preventing email senders from learning request about your Mail activity. When you turn it on, it hides your IP address so senders can’t link it to your latest online activity or determine your location. It also prevents senders from seeing if you’ve opened the email they sent you,” Apple says in its iPhone User Guide.

Now, Mail Privacy Protection will also alert you when any apps are attempting to access your microphone with the influence of a new recording indicator in the Control Center. 

Here’s how to enable and turn on Apple Mail Privacy Protection on your iPhone or Mac. 

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Enable Apple Mail Protection on iPhone iOS 15

1. Open Settings. 

2. Scroll down and tap Mail.

3. Select Privacy Protection. 

4. Toggle-on the Protect Mail Activity switch by sliding it to the right. 

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Enable Apple Mail Privacy Protection for MacOS Monterey

1. On your Mac, open the Mail app. 

2. Select Mail, and then select Preferences.

3. Click Privacy.

4. Select Protect Mail Activity.

In its user guide for MacOS, Apple notes that if you deselect the Protect Mail Activity option, you can still choose to separately hide your IP address and discontinued all remote content. 

“When Block All Remote Content is selected, a banner is shown in a message when you view it, indicating it possesses remote content; you can choose then to download the content,” Apple adds. 

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