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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?
Reply/Forward Icons - You can see the arrow icons when you've replied or forwarded to a message.
Up/Down Arrow, Scrolls Now - In full message view, not preview pane.
Sender's Email Address - You don't have to open the email to see the sender's email address. Just hover over the sender's name from your Inbox. 
Search Results Will Show Folder - Now when you do a search, where the emails are located will show up.


COMING SOON!
Inbox Categories - Default to "All" category instead of always Priority.
AI Summaries - Ability to disable this under Settings.
Right Hand Column - Ability to minimize: Contacts, Starred, More (Currently Yahoo Mail Plus subscribers)


TIPS:
Drag and drop messages to folders - Just click and hold on an email message, then drag and drop that message into a different folder. 
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. 
Dark Mode - Go to Settings > Appearance.
Inbox Categories - You can go back to having just ONE Inbox. Go to Settings > Personalize Inbox.



**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. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Marking a Spam email as Not Spam

    I'm unable to mark an email in the Spam folder as "Not Spam". The button doesn't work.

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  8. old idea

    What happened to "restore to inbox"? Please put that back!

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  9. Return to top of inbox

    Two suggestions to improve the user experience in Yahoo Mail

    1) After moving an email into a folder, the screen always reverts to the top of the inbox . . . which can be inconvenient if you are working your way through your inbox to file away emails (i.e. every time you move an email to a folder, you then have to scroll back down through your inbox to find where you left off). It would be helpful if the inbox could stay in the same spot as opposed to reverting to the top.

    2) When dragging a selected email…

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  10. sorted by sender

    When I have the "All" category sorted by sender for easy email management, it unsorts after I move a group of emails to a folder. Please make it so I return to the "all" category, sorted by sender as I had it.

    Also, when you select email to move to a certain folder, can it default to having the cursor in the search field to find the folder quicker? It takes too many "clicks" to move emails to folders.

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  11. backspace key shouldn't be a delete entire email key

    Please remove the backspace key from the delete shortcut.

    Multiple times when writing emails, I have made a typo, pressed the backspace key, and deleted an entire email, and it doesn't go to trash or archive, it is completely lost.

    This forces a rewrite and has consumed hours and created an enraged emotional response.

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  12. sort by subject

    Add back subject as a sorting category for emails in a folder. I save tasks with new subject line starting with due date, and need to quickly see what's due a particular day. Without this, I'm reduced to roaming up and down a folder trying to see what's due today, or yesterday!

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  13. Include a logout link which is visible at all times

    On my PC, the logout link is only visible for a short time after I refresh the page. So a simple attempt to logout becomes a bizarre game of skill in which I need to click the logout link before it disappears. This is extremely annoying and pointless -- unless your goal is to make logging out difficult so you can better track users' browsing activities.

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  14. keyboard commands stop working

    Website stops responding to up/down pgup/pgdn commands after you click a message. Those buttons become unresponsive and will not start working unless you use left/right to jump to another message and return.

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  15. Opening email on other than the 1st page

    Using the latest old version of Yahoo mail, it would be nicer if when opening email on other than the 1st page did not auto reset back again to 1st page...just started doing that on both my Edge and G.Chrome browsers.

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  16. Give me unread/spam folders on top please

    Just have the folders handy, not to have to dig at the bottom for unread/spam/trash
    thanks.... In that, the old Yahoo was way better

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  17. Filter management

    It's really irritating to have the Filter limit go back to (apparently) 500 after about 10 years at (apparently) 1000. Now I can't edit any of my existing filters because I'm over the limit. It's too bad Yahoo stopped believing in Folders and hasn't enhanced them at all in forever. No search in Filters. No regular expressions. Just sad.

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  18. fix folder views and selecting multiple messages at once to move to a folder

    I like old yahoo mail better after giving new yahoo mail a solid try for a few months; I still have the same issues I never got over not having in new yahoo mail. Maybe these issues are not important to other people, but they are to me, which is why I returned to old yahoo mail.

    Old yahoo mail is more convenient in 3 ways because I:

    A. can see all folders at once, or hide them if you want (new yahoo mail you need to click on Folders tab for folders to show)
    B. can see spam and…

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  19. Subscriptions

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

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