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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. can't see folders

    Can't see the created folders at all. This is a truly substandard version of email.

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  2. STOP HIDING THE FOLDERS AND # OF UNREAD IN FOLDERS

    I have set up a gazillion filters and folders across 4 different yahoo emails that I use for business, personal and girl scout purposes and use these religiously every day. Your new update has hidden them off to the side and made it so hard to see how many new email are in each folder. Hate!!! Hate!!! HATE IT!!!! Give me the easy use of folders back or I'm switching off of Yahoo Mail which I've used for at least 30 years.

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  3. Manage account button getting in the way

    Hi, on the Yahoo (Singapore) homepage, when I move my mouse to access the mail button at the top right hand corner, my cursor sometimes moves over the 'manage account' button (the one on the right of the mail button), which triggers a pop up. This pop up only disappears when I move my cursor to the very left of the mail button where the icon of the envelope is. It would help navigation smoothness if the 'trigger area' of the mail button encompasses the whole button (icon and text) and the manage account pop up disappears as soon as…

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  4. Remove contacts tab, or at least give ability to toggle this

    Please add a button so I can toggle the starred/contacts tab. It is way too big, and really not very useful. Waste of space, since the rest of the parts cannot be moved to be smaller, and emails are still too cropped.

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  6. Compact Email List

    Looking forward for an option to make the emails list more compact. Currently, the email list items occupy too much height. Making the list more compact helps quick visual scanning of emails subjects/titles.

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  7. NOT ABLE TO SEE FILTER option in new theme on top menu like earlier

    ADD FILTER option on top menu at visible place

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  8. Hidden email & ugly icon

    When I turned on the computer, several messages stating "It's your turn" on BGA popped up in the right hand corner of my screen. When I went to my inbox, I saw no emails from BGA. When I searched for "Board game arena," I saw four recent emails from them. That screen indicated that those messages were in my inbox. Why can't I see them and what other emails might be hidden from view? Also, your icon one the tab is so pale that I have trouble finding it. Plus, you might want to ask us what we think of…

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  9. no select all box

    regarding the new mail foermat......

    There is no easily identifiable select all box. We receive 100 spams for every valid email. I use select all and then uncheck the few valid emails that I need to read. It is a HUGE task to ask us to select every mail individually to delete from the innbox. PLEASE put that function back! .

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  10. where are my folders

    where are my folders???

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  11. "..."

    Place the "..." menu above the "Folders". I have an extensive "Folder" list that I like to keep open; and when it is open, the "..." gets pushed below my screen. My main need for the "..." is for "Unread" items.

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  12. Show all my folders in left column, as before (I would happily search for my idea if you had somewhere to search)

    In the old mail I could see all my folders at once in the left column, and see my inbox contents. Now if I open the folder section, they cover the message list. I can only see one folder at a time. How can I use your "improvement" (see below) much less use my folders as I have them arranged?
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    Drag and drop messages to folders - Just click and hold on an email message, then drag and drop that message into a different folder."

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  13. how to block spam emails on a desktop iMac computer for an older person

    I am very hurt by your company and not being able to get help. I am 83 years old and do not know a lot about computers but I am getting a real lot of spam emails. I have a desktop iMac and want to block the spam emails.
    I have AT&T and you are the emails. Why can't I get help. I want to block the bad emails. Why can't I tale to a real person to get help. YOU do not act like you care at all. I am totally alone and thought you were a good company…

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  14. email navigation

    The Yahoo email interface has become significantly more complex on the desktop version. I feel quite lost due to the recent design changes. We need to simplify the viewing, reading, and replying process while also grouping emails in a more user-friendly manner. If there are any tutorials available for new users, please share them so that I can better understand how to use the email more effectively.

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    Manoj

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  15. Make all the email folders visible again

    Instead of hiding the additional folders under a "Folders" menu item make them visible so that emails can be dragged and dropped to folders again. You could make the list of folders collapsible so the user can choose to see or not see them all at once.

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  16. can't scroll through folders anymore when dragging message to folder

    It used to be that, when dragging a message to a folder, if there were more folders than could be viewed, you could just drag the message "beyond the bottom" and the folders would scroll up... This no longer works (on new or old yahoomail). instead, I just get a red circle with a slash.

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  17. Please bring back the separation between day, weeks & months in the emails. It's a blur without the separation

    Please bring back the separation between day, weeks & months in the emails. It's difficult to find emails without the separation

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  18. Sort by SUBJECT

    Please reinstate sorting by SUBJECT. I can see that instead of taking this seriously, admin keeps lying to us by saying all we need to do is disable conversations. Even though I have already done this, there is still no option to sort by SUBJECT.

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  19. Changing the priority to having a button on top that is show all or priority

    I have an idea... change back to the old way. Now, normally I am all about change, but wow... this did not help anyone in a hurry to get things done with 8 million things on their list. For example, why would you think the system would know what I would find important and not? Let's say that is a good plan... but then at the top... above the messages... you should have a button that says "show all" and then if you have selected "show all" it could revert to this priorty thing .... AND just saying... it was…

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  20. Navigation pane

    I use Folders most to navigate to my emails, not Starred (I never star emails), Sent (can be found from Folders), Drafts (Can be found from folders, and I do not leave unfinished drafts). I miss seeing all the Folders at once. The real-estate on the Navigation pane is taken up by useless stuff. Others may use it differently, therefore a choice of what to display on the navigation pane on the left would be great.

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