Sign in with Apple not relaying emails to the Apple ID main email address

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Created Feb ’20

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Hi there,

My personal Apple ID happens to be quite old, actually from the mac.com era. My Apple ID is still a @mac.com email address, but my main/ default email address is a @gmail.com address. For any other occasions, emails I receive from Apple are properly routed to my @gmail.com email.

But if I sign up to an app using Sign in with Apple and not disclosing my actual email address to the app, Apple will by default relay email sent by the app developer to my @mac.com email. I can change this behavior by going into my Apple ID settings and change my default transfer email address. But it does not seem right that Sign in with Apple picked as default a field that may actually not be an email address. It should have picked the default email for my Apple ID.

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Yaroon OP

Feb ’23

It is an email addres. I have an @mac.com Apple ID as well, and me too... cannot receive email at it. It is a domain that is under Apple's control, they have our primary email address... they are just not willing to register the @mac.com Apple IDs as email aliases of the primary email account.

Which is strange because they actually send us email to that account. One would think it is in their interest that (App Store) invoices arrive... but no :)

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