(Fastmail is the only third-party service I know that offers this for Apple devices.) Push notifications for email messages that notify you immediately when you receive a message.All you have to do is log in to your iCloud account to send and receive email. Easy integration and fast device setup.However, there are some good reasons to use iCloud Mail, especially if you’ve bought into the Apple ecosystem: iCloud Mail lacks many of the advanced options of other email providers and has been known to silently filter messages, with no way to recover the messages or even know they were sent. The lack of custom domain support was one reason, but I don’t see myself switching even now. I personally don’t depend on iCloud Mail for anything other than testing. In short, iCloud Mail is still only a solution for individuals and families, not for organizations. Services like FastMail offer many more, though you have to pay for additional users. You can set up five unique domain names with an iCloud Mail account, but each person can have only three unique addresses per domain, all of which deliver to that person’s iCloud inbox.Although the article’s steps look reasonable, we haven’t tested them with thousands of messages, so proceed at your own risk and be sure to verify that messages have transferred correctly.
Macworld UK explains how to use the Mail app on the Mac to move messages from Gmail to iCloud, which should work for any email account set up in Mail. Apple does not currently provide any tools to transfer existing email messages from another email provider to your iCloud account.I explain how to get around that catch-22 below. You must be able to receive email at your custom email address before you set it up at iCloud because Apple needs to send it a confirmation message.If you already pay for iCloud storage, you’re automatically in. You must be a subscriber to iCloud+, Apple’s new name for iCloud paid plans.(For historical reasons, Adam Engst’s primary Apple ID is, has no associated iCloud email address, and wouldn’t allow him to manage custom domains.) You can only set up a custom email domain for an iCloud account that has an iCloud email address associated with it.
For instance, we couldn’t move to iCloud and leave behind. You can’t move just one address at a domain to iCloud Mail.You can send outgoing email from a custom email address only with the betas of macOS 12 Monterey, iOS 15, and iPadOS 15, not from currently shipping versions of Apple’s operating systems.(There are other reasons to not rely on iCloud Mail as your main email service that I’ll outline below.) Do not move your primary email domain to iCloud Mail yet, since the feature is still in beta.You can now test custom domain support on the iCloud beta site. Things to Know Before You Move Your Email Address You can migrate your email address to any other email service provider that supports custom domains.It looks more professional-you’re not just one of hundreds of millions of iCloud users.It enables you to customize your email address.However, if you own a custom domain name, like or, many email services let you use that domain for your email address.
Likewise, if you use a free Gmail account, your address is along the lines of For instance, if you use iCloud Mail, your address will be something like (or or even if you’re old-school cool).
What does that mean? Most people use free email services like iCloud Mail and Gmail, where all email addresses use a pre-specified domain. How to Set Up Custom Email Domains with iCloud MailĪpple is now testing an iCloud Mail feature that power users have requested for years: custom email domains.