How to No Longer Bcc Yourself for Emails Composed on an iPhone

Written by Jack Lloyd

Last Updated: May 25, 2021 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to prevent the Mail app from including your own email address as an anonymous recipient by default when you send an email. While this feature only applies to iCloud mail, other email services don't automatically bcc you.

Steps

1
Open your iPhone's Settings. Do so by tapping the grey gear icon on one of your Home screens (it may be in a folder named "Utilities").
2
Scroll to the fifth group of options and select Mail.
3
Scroll down to the "Composing" group of options. It's the fifth group on this page.
4
Slide the Always Bcc Myself switch left to the "Off" position. It should turn grey. Now whenever you compose an email within the Mail app, you won't anonymously attach your email address to the outgoing email.
- If this switch is already grey, you aren't bcc-ing yourself when you send an email.

Warnings

This setting only affects the Mail app mail (which comes from your iCloud account). If you want to alter other mail apps' settings, you'll have to do so from within the apps themselves.

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