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Index › Vendors › iCloud Mail · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

iCloud Mail

1Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

1 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. iCloud Mail was named 1 time in Email security, where Microsoft Defender for Office 365 led with 31%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market62 of 71

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In email security · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named iCloud Mail for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Email security	Security operations	0%	62 of 71	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Office 365 at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for iCloud Mail yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated iCloud Mail across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“iCloud Mail is also mentioned as having known security issues” Llama 4 Maverick · Email security · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as iCloud Mail, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and iCloud Mail was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AOL Mail1 of 10Not in the top three

Gmail1 of 10Not in the top three

Hotmail1 of 10Not in the top three

Microsoft Outlook1 of 10Not in the top three

Yahoo Mail1 of 10Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named iCloud Mail. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 1 answers that named iCloud Mail and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

allaboutcookies.org1

cybersectools.com1

gartner.com1

proprivacy.com1

sublime.security1

Five of the five domain citations in answers naming iCloud Mail came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

allaboutcookies.org/worst-email-providers1

cybersectools.com/resources/shortlists/best-email-security-platforms1

gartner.com/reviews/market/email-security1

proprivacy.com/email/comparison/least-secure-email-providers1

sublime.security/articles/top-email-security-companies1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at icloud.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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