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- Google is working on a new feature that will let you hide your email address when signing up for apps and services.
- We have new images that show how it’ll be easily accessible in Gboard.
- This new spam-fighting and privacy option is still a work in progress.
A couple of months ago, our Android Authority team discovered clues pointing to Google’s work on a new Shielded Email feature. The clues were hidden in a Google Play Services APK and hinted at a system where Google generates a new email alias for you so you don’t have to sign up for apps and services with your primary email address. Now, we have another hint at how this feature will work.
Shielded Emails, as we’d previously discovered, will be part of Google’s Autofill system. Just think of all the apps or screens where Google pops up with its suggested autofill details based on your saved passwords and usernames; all of these should be the new home for this new Shielded Email. And that’s what we’re now seeing after enabling the option.