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Apple has quietly increased the limits for email customization within its iCloud+ service. The number of mail aliases users can create has tripled from three to nine, while the limit for personalized addresses under custom domains has risen from three to ten. These changes were not officially announced by Apple but have been confirmed as live on iCloud.com by multiple outlets.
Apple has increased the number of personalized email addresses iCloud+ subscribers can create per custom domain from three to ten. This change, which appears to be a quiet update, benefits business owners and families using custom domains. While Apple has not officially announced the change, it is confirmed live on iCloud.com.
iOS 27 introduces significant upgrades to the Apple Photos app, focusing on creative control and social sharing. The update adds full-featured slideshow creation tools, allowing users to customize transitions, music, and duration, and save the result as a video file. Simultaneously, iCloud Shared Albums receive major enhancements, including full-resolution media sharing, universal emoji reactions, and support for Android and Windows users. These changes aim to make the Photos app a more viable alternative for event presentations and private social networking.
Apple released version 1.12.0 of the Apple Invites app on September 30, 2026, introducing full-resolution photo sharing, photorealistic background generation via Image Playground, and simplified email verification for guests.
A new variant of the MacSync macOS stealer uses public iCloud calendar events to hide command payloads, adding a Finder-disguised backdoor and server-side decryption to evade static analysis.
iOS 27 introduces Apple Intelligence features with daily usage limits, but iCloud+ subscribers get increased AI access (such as image generation) and HomeKit Secure Video upgrades that add AI video descriptions, clip search, and automatic highlight surfacing; Apple also expanded iCloud+ to include free Apple TV and Apple Arcade outside the US.
Apple Music Select, a limited, ad-free version of Apple Music, is expanding to iCloud+ subscribers in more than 100 countries, including India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Türkiye and the UAE. The iCloud+ tier remains paid (starting around $1/month), and subscribers will also gain access to Apple Arcade and Apple TV, with region-specific pricing for the full Apple Music subscription.
Apple is expanding iCloud+ into a broad services bundle in 100+ countries, making every paid iCloud+ plan—including the 50GB tier—include Apple TV and Apple Arcade with family sharing for up to five people; standalone TV/Arcade subscriptions will be canceled in these markets, and Apple One is being wound down there. The bundle also adds Apple Music Select with ad-free curated stations, and Apple TV will now be available in 170 countries.
Apple is bundling Apple TV and Apple Arcade with iCloud+ in over 100 countries at no extra cost, ramping up access to its services in price-sensitive markets and signaling a shift away from Apple One in these regions. Apple TV also becomes available in 59 additional countries, bringing its total reach to 170. Some markets may also gain Apple Music Select with ad-free radio and discounted upgrades to full Apple Music.
Apple today published a support article detailing that Apple Intelligence and Siri AI features may be subject to server-side usage limits, with increased access available for a fee. Limits will vary by feature, request complexity, and system demand, and once reached, affected features may be unavailable for a period before access is restored. Some Home app features, like video summaries, depend on iCloud+ plan camera allowances. Apple also reserves the right to enforce limits for unreasonable use and to update the terms over time.
Apple has reversed its plan to move Hide My Email to a private.icloud.com domain and will keep Hide My Email addresses on icloud.com; Sign in with Apple will use private.icloud.com later this year, and developers should allow both domains.
Apple says iOS 27 will give iPhone users with at least 2TB of iCloud+ storage three new Apple Intelligence features in the Home app: generated video descriptions for HomeKit Secure Video cameras, searchable camera clips, and automatic highlighting of noteworthy clips. Early beta screenshots show eligibility can vary by storage tier (e.g., 8TB users can get summaries for more cameras), with higher limits likely on the top tiers. Apple notes these AI features rely on powerful server models and will be limited to higher iCloud+ plans, with exact per-plan limits to be shared as iOS 27 rolls out; some limits also apply to the Image Playground AI features.
iOS 27 beta 5 reveals that higher iCloud+ tiers will unlock more Apple Intelligence features, including expanded AI usage and HomeKit Secure Video capabilities. A beta UI shows how many cameras get AI summaries depending on the plan (e.g., 2TB supports AI for five cameras, 12TB for fifteen), though the exact mappings aren’t fully clear and may be a beta bug.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple weighed a 'white-glove' plan to ship leased devices preloaded with a user’s iCloud data, removing setup friction; the data-loaded approach raised privacy concerns and was not pursued, as public sentiment shifted from privacy nihilism to a privacy backlash and Apple tunes its messaging ahead of new products like smart glasses.
Security researchers say iCloud Private Relay, Apple’s feature designed to mask IP addresses in Safari, can still reveal a user’s real IP when WebAuthn passkeys are used because the OS credential service issues HTTPS requests outside Private Relay; DNS prefetching and WebTransport may also disclose IPs. Apple is investigating, and a test site has been released by the researchers. Since the leak stems from WebKit behavior and affects some third‑party browsers too, users may want to consider using a VPN or disabling Private Relay for certain sites until a fix is deployed.