iCloud Mail
iCloud+ 50 GB from £0.99 a month. Based in United States.
Last checked 22 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- iCloud+ 50 GB
£0.99 a month - Free plan
- Yes, 5 GB, no own domain
- Storage
- 50 GB
- Your own domain
- ✓ Up to 5
- End-to-end encryption
- No
- Company based in
- United States
- Your data is kept in
- United States and worldwide
- Founded
- 2011
- Free trial
- Free (5 GB)
- Funded by advertising
- No
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- ✓ Yes
- Aliases
- Hide My Email
- Open-source apps
- No
- Sign up without ID
- No
- White label
- No
- Reader offer
- None
Advanced Data Protection does not cover iCloud Mail. UK price may have changed in 2026
iCloud Mail email addresses end in @icloud.com, @me.com, @mac.com.
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things iCloud Mail controls: reliability, abuse handling, email security, account security, transparency, fair dealing and support. It doesn't change the stars above. I'll show a score once I've had a week of my own checks. So far 1.4 points are confirmed. How it's worked out
Reliability 0 of 1
- Website uptime over 30 daysFrom my hourly checks. 99% or more scores in full, 98% scores 0.75, 97% scores 0.5 and 95% scores 0.25. Needs a week of checks.Not checked yet: 0/1
Abuse and reputation 0 of 0.75
- Mail servers kept off blocklists for 30 daysFrom my daily checks of the free blocklists. A listing only counts if I see it on two separate days.Not checked yet: 0/0.5
- Publishes a way to report abuseNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Email security on its own domain 0.4 of 1
- DMARC set to quarantine (reject scores in full)From my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.Partly: 0.2/0.4
- MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
- DNSSEC on its domainFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
- Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
Account security 0.5 of 0.5
- Two-step sign-inYes: 0.25/0.25
- PasskeysYes: 0.25/0.25
Transparency 0 of 0.75
- A security contact (security.txt or a security page)Not checked yet: 0/0.25
- A transparency report, or a published policy on government requestsNot checked yet: 0/0.25
- A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Fair dealing 0.5 of 0.5
- You can copy all your mail out with any mail app (IMAP)Yes: 0.25/0.25
- You can cancel online SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
Support 0 of 0.5
- A way to reach a person, listed on its websiteNot checked yet: 0/0.25
- A public status pageNot checked yet: 0/0.25
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Plans
5 plans
iCloud+ 50 GB
- Paying monthly
- £0.99 a month
- Storage
- 50 GB
- People
- Share with up to 5 family members
- Own domains
- Yes
- Also includes
- Hide My Email, Private Relay, custom email domain
iCloud+ 200 GB
- Paying monthly
- £2.99 a month
- Storage
- 200 GB
- People
- Share with up to 5 family members
- Own domains
- Yes
- Also includes
- Hide My Email, Private Relay, custom email domain
iCloud+ 2 TB
- Paying monthly
- £8.99 a month
- Storage
- 2 TB
- People
- Share with up to 5 family members
- Own domains
- Yes
- Also includes
- Hide My Email, Private Relay, custom email domain
iCloud+ 6 TB and 12 TB
- Paying monthly
- £26.99 or £54.99 a month
- Storage
- 6 TB or 12 TB
- People
- Share with up to 5 family members
- Own domains
- Yes
- Also includes
- Hide My Email, Private Relay, custom email domain
Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges. Tap a plan to see what's included.
Before you sign up
1 of 7 checked
- Taking your email with you
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- How to cancel
- Cancel iCloud+ from Subscriptions in your Apple Account settings, on your device or the web. Cancel a free trial at least 24 hours before it ends Their page ↗
- Refunds
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Minimum term
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Price when it renews
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- After you close your account
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Getting help
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Taken from iCloud Mail's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
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Features
10 of 22 offered, 3 still to check
- Your own domain✓ Yes
- Works in any mail app (IMAP)✓ Yes
- Calendar and contacts✓ Yes
- Open sourceNo
- White label (resell as your own)No
- Two-step sign-in✓ Yes
- Passkeys✓ Yes
- PGP encryptionNo
- Password-protected email to anyoneNo
- Catch-all addressNo
- Filters and rules✓ Yes
- Sieve filtersNo
- Auto-reply✓ Yes
- Scheduled send✓ Yes
- Undo send✓ Yes
- Import from another providerUnknown Suggest an edit
- Mobile apps✓ Yes
- Desktop app✓ Yes
- POP3No
- CalDAV and CardDAV sync✓ Yes
- JMAPNo
- Tor (onion) addressNo
- Pay with cash or cryptoNo
- Export all your mailUnknown Suggest an edit
- APINo
- AI features✓ Yes
- Single sign-on (SSO)Unknown Suggest an edit
Policies and contacts
0 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Acceptable use policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Terms of service
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Report abuse
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Contact
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for icloud.com
From public sources, last read on 31 October 2026: breaches from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which lists breaches of the provider's own site, not of every account that uses it; incidents as the provider reports them. None of this changes my stars.
Company and servers
Founded, owner, servers, uptime and blocklists
- Founded
- 2011
- Domain first registered
- 1999 (icloud.com)
- Website hosted in
- 🌐 Worldwide network (Akamai International B.V.)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- United States (Apple Inc.)
mx01.mail.icloud.com, mx02.mail.icloud.com - Mail security records
- SPF open · DMARC quarantine · No MTA-STS · No TLS reporting · BIMI logo ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 4 of its mail servers
- Name servers run by
- Apple Inc.
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
- IPv6
- ✓ website
- Website certificate
- Apple Inc. · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 181 ms · HTTPS with HSTS
My automatic checks last ran on 31 October 2026. Server countries come from their IP addresses, and big providers often run servers in many countries. Blocklists are the free lists that answer public look-ups.
iCloud Mail home page
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News
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Price history
3 prices since 1 June 2023
Cheapest plan per month, in pounds. Prices charged in dollars or euros are converted at a rough rate. Every change I find is added here with its date.
- 22 October 2026 £0.99 a month, when I checked
- 1 July 2023 £0.99 (UK price rise, 2023)
- 1 June 2023 £0.79
Sources
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