From this guide, you could get hold of the shortcut that will allow you to quickly create a new Hide My Email alias on your Mac. If you wish to register to a new website but don’t wish to give your original email ID, then you could take the help f of its nifty built-in feature which gives you the option to create an unlimited number of random email addresses for Safari or the mail app. However, this feature has been baked quite deep into the OS, and accessing it takes ages.
After all, heading over to ‘System Settings > Apple Account > Hide my Email > Set up’ every time when you are in need of a new random email isn’t the best workflow. Well, you now have the option to directly cut to the chase, all thanks to a nifty shortcut that will allow you to create a new Hide My Email alias on your Mac with just a single click. So without further ado, let’s get started.
Shortcut for creating a new Hide My Email alias on Mac
To begin with, download the shortcut on your Mac running Ventura 13.3 or above [credits: Redditor u/b_leep]. When you launch this shortcut, it will launch the System Settings, go through the Hide My Email creation flow, and copy the newly-created alias to your clipboard. Since a name for the new alias will be needed, this shortcut will automatically assign it from the clipboard.
In other words, it will just ⌘+C the website’s name before running the shortcut. Moroever, make sure to grant it Accessibility Permission as well. To do so, launch System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility and enable the toggle next to siriactionsd [if it is not there, then hit the plus icon to add it and then enable the toggle].
So on that note, we round off this guide regarding the shortcut that will allow you to quickly create a new Hide My Email alias on your Mac. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
