How to Forward Emails in iCloud Mail (and Automatically)

iCloud Mail can forward one email at a time, or forward everything that arrives to another address. Automatic forwarding is set up on iCloud.com.

Forward one email

1. Go to icloud.com/mail and select the email.
2. On a phone or tablet, tap the More button first.
3. Choose Forward, add recipients in the To field, and select Send.

On a computer you can also hover over an email in the list, click the Quick Action Menu button and choose Forward.

Attachments: to include the original attachments when you reply or forward, go to Settings › Composing and select Include original attachments in reply.

Reply or Reply All instead?

• Reply answers only the sender.
• Reply All answers the sender and everyone the email was sent to.
• Forward sends the email to new people you add.

Replying to a very long conversation — 100 emails — starts a new thread with the same subject.

Forward all new email automatically

1. On icloud.com/mail, click the Settings button at the top of the Mailboxes list, then choose Settings.
2. Select Mail Forwarding in the sidebar.
3. Tick Forward my email to and enter the address.
4. Optional: tick Delete messages after forwarding if you don’t want iCloud to keep a copy.

Two things to know:

• Copies use iCloud storage. Keeping a copy of every forwarded email counts against your storage — and when iCloud storage is full, you stop receiving email. See iCloud storage full.
• Custom domains are included. If you use your own domain with iCloud Mail, email to those addresses is forwarded too.

Keep a copy or not? Keep copies if you might switch back to iCloud Mail or want a backup. Choose Delete messages after forwarding if you’ve moved to another inbox for good and want to save iCloud storage.

Forward only some emails

Create a rule instead. Each rule can forward to one address, so use one rule per destination.

Turn automatic forwarding off

Go to Settings › Mail Forwarding on iCloud.com and untick Forward my email to.

Away for a while?

An automatic reply still works when your iCloud Mail is forwarded. Check forwarding now and then: a forwarding address you don’t recognise could mean someone else has access — see iCloud Mail security.

Elsewhere: Gmail forwarding · Outlook forwarding.