Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection Conceals IPs and Pre-Caches Email Content
Users can activate Protect Mail Activity in Mail’s Privacy Protection settings to hide their IP addresses, with Apple servers fetching and caching email media in advance
Overview
- Toggling on Protect Mail Activity reroutes all email fetching through Apple proxy servers instead of on-device requests
- Senders only see Apple’s proxy IP address, preventing location tracking via users’ real IPs
- Remote email content is preloaded on a schedule so tracking pixels report as opened without revealing actual engagement times
- Pre-caching media reduces load times for images and other remote content in emails
- The feature is freely available to every Apple Mail user without requiring an iCloud+ subscription