Shape-shifting App
Not just navigation but folders, settings, navigation, other.
I have three phones.
They are identical Samsung S22 Ultras.
I have the Play Store version of the Yahoo mail app on each of these phones.
On two of them, the settings stay the way I put them.
On one of them... this one... the settings keep reverting or progressing and the app seems to spontaneously morph into a version I do not want.
If I look in settings, and find the app version number, it will be the same, and will not have changed.
That version is: 7.67.1.1842620
It is the same version number as on my other two phones.
After the app interface and settings menu morphs into the unwanted version, there is no way for me to change it back, unless I uninstall the app, reinstall it, and reassign all my settings.
Alternatively, I can achieve the same results by going to the app settings in my phone, and clearing the data.
Clearing only the cache has no effect, and clearing the data also clears the cache.
Whether I've done it by clearing the data, or by uninstalling and reinstalling the app, I am then able to go into the now refreshed app, and proceed by re-setting up everything as I like it.
First I have to select the color I want.
Then I must proceed through the suggested options screens such as for adding accounts or accepting notifications, etc.
After that, I'm allowed to see the interface screen, and I see that the app is now the version that it's supposed to be, except for all the settings being not exactly the way I want them.
I go to the settings, and I proceed through the settings until I've got everything back exactly the way I want it.
It's perfect.
I'm happy.
But only temporarily.
But for now, the controls are where I want them...for instance, the folders are accessed through an icon in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
That particular thing is the most important one to me.
Now that everything is where it's supposed to be, I can proceed to get things done.
And when I've done all that I can, I close the app.
Later, when it's time for me to check the mail again, I'll open the app again, and it will no longer be as I left it.
Folders access would no longer be in the lower left hand corner of the screen, but rather will be accessible only through my profile icon via a drop-down menu from the upper left hand corner of the screen.
Now, a billboard at the top of my mail list is suggesting for me to select which inbox categories I want.
And I don't want any of them.
I tell it so.
Then, I go to the settings and see if there's anything I can do to make this a more habitable place now that everything is where I don't want it to be.
And I see that the settings menu is significantly different now.
I've been through this at least a hundred times.
I think it's been many more.
My phone number is --xxxx
My name is Ted.
I didn't realize that this would be public...so I've blocked out my phone number, and I suggest that you contact me through my email.
If I had the ability to give you screenshots of everything, this might still take hours.
As it is, it's been suggested to me that I make all the images I think I need to, and then post them somewhere online, and furnish you with links to them.
It seems like a massive ordeal, honestly.
I think once you see this, you should contact me.
We can make arrangements for you to directly access my device while I run through all of the unfortunately futile things that I have to run through in order to restore the functionality I need to the app.
You can then witness the inevitable reversion.
During that process, you can take all the screenshots that you want or think you'll need.
The case number for this is 26469869
This doesn't happen to my other two phones, Each of which shares the identical software updates for the operating system.
At some point in in the past, I believe I was enrolled in the beta program.
I don't recall that that was restricted to one particular device.
Perhaps it was.
Perhaps it was this one.
But I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app dozens and dozens of times...and dozens and dozens and dozens of times.
I will grant you access to anything you want to look at in this phone.
And to anything you want to look at in my other two phones.
I just want this to be over.
