Article 5JRXE Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage

Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage

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Jacob Kastrenakes
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Apple is amping up iCloud with a new set of features called iCloud Plus. The cloud storage service will now come with access to a VPN, burner email addresses, and unlimited storage for HomeKit-enabled home security cameras.

The VPN, called Private Relay, will route your internet traffic through two relays in order to mask who's browsing and where that data is coming from. The burner email feature, called Hide My Email, lets you create single-use email addresses that will forward to your actual account; that way, you can provide a junk email to a service you don't trust in case it starts spamming you. Apple already offers a similar feature through Sign In With Apple.

Apple will also include unlimited storage for video from HomeKit-enabled...

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