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Welcome to the new Yahoo Mail Desktop experience! This is a place for you to help shape the redesign. We review the most popular, feasible ideas from this forum to make positive changes to your Yahoo Mail.


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*Those asking about going back to the old version. Unfortunately, if you do not see the "Go Back" button you cannot go back. We really hope you'll try the new experience! Thanks!


WHAT'S NEW?
Search by Sender - Just hover over the sender's profile image and a spyglass icon will appear where you can search all emails by that sender.
Multi-Tasking Tabs - Like before, open an email in a new tab.
AI Summaries - Ability to disable. Go to Settings > AI Features > Toggle Off
Number of Total Messages - Hover over the Inbox Icon and you will see both total number of messages and unread.
Sender's Email Address - You don't have to open the message to see the sender's email address. Just hover over the sender's name from your Inbox.



COMING SOON!
Differentiate Unread v. Read - Better ways to see the difference.
Resize Images - Resize an image within the message.
Inbox Categories - Default to "All" category instead of always Priority.
Right Hand Column - Ability to minimize: Contacts, Starred, More (Currently for Yahoo Mail Plus subscribers)


TIPS:
Inbox Categories - You can go back to having just ONE Inbox. Go to Settings > Personalize Inbox.
Keep Folders Expanded - First expand left hand column by hovering on Inbox edge until you see Double Arrows. Then a drop down will show up next to Folders.
Bulk Delete - Click on a checkbox from your Inbox and a new checkbox will appear at the top. From there you can Select All and Delete All.
Sender's Email Address - You don't have to open the message to see the sender's email address. Just hover over the sender's name from your Inbox.
Dark Mode - Go to Settings > Appearance.




**Please do NOT post about Account, Password, Login issues here. It will be deleted. Please go to help.yahoo.com.




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  1. Make "Unread" a visible menu option, more accessible

    Make "Unread" a visible menu option, without having to click into a submenu. Ideally, allow customization of the default menu options that are visible.

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  2. The "Drafts" icon no longer shows the number of active drafts

    In the old version I was able to see how many drafts were currently in the Drafts folder.

    This is no longer possible for some reason

    Please fix.

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  3. Scrolling through mail is jumpy as it skips emails

    Scrolling through email is impossible. I use the scroll wheel on my mouse to look through email as I use a pc. I can start at the top and after one or two short scrolls down it jumps down so I miss several hours of emails For example, my newest email came at 6:12pm today..After I get down to 4:20pm it jumps to mail received at 1pm without my even scrolling and when I go back up I see I missed 32 emails received. No matter how many times I go back to the top and try again it always…

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  4. When I read or delete an email please return me where I left off in my inbox of emails

    When I read or delete an email from my Inbox please return me to where I left off . Your making me remember the time or subject of the emails so I can return to where I left off. Not good time management. Making me work harder not smarter .. Thank you... .

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  5. Account switcher broken

    The new account switcher (in the upper right) is seriously broken - it only shows 3 accounts after I click on "Add or switch accounts", when I have 4 active accounts. Worse, it doesn't show the most recently used account. For example, I recently switched from account A to account B. Now, when I select "Add or switch accounts", it shows me accounts B, C, and D. There's no way for me to get back to account A!!! Seriously broken. Also, why the extra click on "Add or switch accounts"? - This is an extra, unnecessary step. I switch accounts…

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  6. Scrolling down to next email message

    I cannot find a way to turn off the "feature" which scrolls to the next message in the inbox if you reach the bottom of a chain of messages. I personally find this feature to be annoying and unintuitive because it's not common across other email platforms (or if it is, they must not automatically opt users into it). Additionally, it's very sensitive, rather than requiring a more intentional scroll to move on to view the next message. The dumb thing with this feature is it only works in one direction: down. Once I've accidentally navigated to the next chain…

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  7. Move Spam and Trash above Folders. Now, Spam and Trash are virtually inaccessible if you keep your Folders expanded

    I saw you currently have a hint about keeping all folders expanded and this is really important. However, this is unusable right now. When Folders are expanded, it becomes a nightmare to access the Spam folder and since your filters do not work (no matter what tricks you try to make them work), easily checking the Spam folder is a must. If you expand Folders though, access to the Spam folder (and Trash as well) becomes quite hard, especially when you have a lot of folders like me. Please, move Spam (and Trash) above Folders (ideally in the section with…

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  8. can't see all features

    I am on a laptop, and there are many times the bar that contains delete and spam goes under the search bar....and becomes unoperable. I recommend testing the app on many devices so you can see how bad it is.

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  9. Stop the advance to the next email

    This just started, but I noticed when I'm reading a long email and I'm scrolling through it, it advances to the next email, and I'm not done reading the one I was on. So frustrating! I tried to find a way to stop or disable that feature, but there's not an option. So I have to go back several times and open up the email I was reading to finish it before it advances to the next email. I hope my description makes sense?

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  10. Keep on current email, without jumping around; then have to scroll up or down to find where you were at!!!!

    Please make it so one does not have to jump around after viewing an email, to have to navigate to go where you first were. I was able to change the option of deleting an email(it comes back to where you were first viewing), BUT if you just view an email and exit out--you are not where the original email was. Please STOP the 'jumping around movement' of where we are currently viewing. It definitely makes for a longer period of viewing email than I want to spend.

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  11. Tabs are hard to close now.

    The new "tabs" are ****. You have to hover in just the right spot to get the X to close it, and then it sometimes disappears before you can click it and you have to try the hover move again.

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  12. UNREAD items category

    While not always accurate, I preferred the "unread" mailbox as my first mailbox in the old system.

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  13. Go Back Button

    Their isi no go back button. I'm 84 years old and I can't find my incoming mail. I do not want to be all tied up with this new system. Let your computer people use it.

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  14. Update

    I absolute hate the update to the Yahoo app on my android. I can't find out how to access my other email accounts which is hindering my ability to do my job! I have considered moving solely to Google and this is pushing my decision. I have never seen a user unfriendly update.

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  15. An off switch in mail settings that stops scrolling into the next email

    I want an OFF switch for this new process that scrolls me to the next email if I scroll down too far or fast. Some of the newsletters I read have content I want to see near the bottom of the mail received, and I seem to be getting tossed to the next message before I can scroll down that far. Please make it stop or give me a control in mail settings that I can disable this unwanted and unnecessary feature.

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  16. turn off automatic continue to next message when scroll to bottom of current message

    There seems to be a new feature that automatically loads the next message when I scroll to the bottom of the current message. This is a very annoying feature, I can't actually get to the bottom of a long email to read it, it keeps jumping forward. How do I turn it off?
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  17. cursor keys

    Something I hate about the new email inbox is that it does not allow you to use the cursor keys to scroll through you emails. The only way to scroll is to use the wheel on the mouse which can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome because unfortunately I get a lot of emails. I have heard from users of other mail systems like Gmail blocking more spam messages, but that's another story. I would like for Yahoo to bring back the ability to scroll through your emails with the cursor keys.

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  18. Email list automatically scrolls back to most recent. Boooo....

    Email list automatically scrolls back to most recent. Boooo....

    When I'm going through my Inbox and do something with an email, whether it's filing it or deleting, the Inbox list automatically scrolls back to the top of the list to the most recent email. This is super frustrating when you're trying to to clean out your Inbox and have to scroll down back to where you were, which sometimes is impossible to know or remember as you're moving things around! Please fix that! We thank you.

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  19. automatically refresh and sends me back to the beginning.

    when scrolling through messages the yahoo mail page suddenly seems to automatically refresh and sends me back to the beginning. This happens every 10 to 30 seconds making it difficult to go through the emails

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  20. Subscriptions

    Bring back the subscriptions tab to enable unsubscribing from unwanted emails.

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