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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.




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  1. needs some work

    new email is confusing. When drafting, the send button is all the way at the bottom (along with attachment button), when composing, cannot tell where i'm writing if I scroll down to read previous information - lots of scrolling up and down. when reading message - you can see the vertical green bar, but even this is not easy to find if you scroll through the inbox bar. overall, it needs a lot more work as this is a lot more confusing to find where you are, where the information is, and where the sent button is.

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  2. Arrange buttons similarly from page to page for muscle memory organizing

    Buttons are in different places when viewing Inbox and selected, then in another when an email is displayed. It makes for confusing and delayed account organization that the trash and especially read button & move buttons are reversed.

    Via Inbox when clicked, the buttons are as follows: Archive, Move, Trash, Read/Unread, Spam, Menu
    When inside email: Reply, Forward, Read/Unread, Star, Move, Trash Spam, Menu

    It would be helpful if they were aligned the same in both places. Thank-you

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  3. Mailboxes at top of left side as before

    Having the ability to select between mailboxes at the top is much more convenient as an end user than having to go to the bottom to select. Design from the end user's point of view. Most softwares do NOT think of things from this ipoint of view.

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  4. subtly highlight currently selected email

    right now when viewing the content of an email, if I see all the emails, I have no clue of which is the email I am viewing at, they are all in the same style.
    I suggest to subtly change the tone of the background of the currently selected email, the one is being viewed.

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  5. When you hover over the list of mails with your cursor it would be nice to have a pop up like effect

    In the simple way i think is something like a pop up hover effect like the tailwind code "hover:scale-105"

    I think it's gonna be a small but huge improvement of the ui/ux

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  6. Hovering mouse over folder name in message list shows full folder name

    When you search for all messages from a specific sender, there is a column that indicates the folder in which the message is found. If that folder name is too long it is truncated with an ellipsis. If I hove my mouse over the folder name, a tooltip should appears to show me the full folder name.

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  7. Some important functions disappear at certain levels of screen zoom

    Because of my eyesight, I often increase the zoom on my screen. In this new design, certain essential buttons disappear "below the fold" and require either a scroll or even resizing the zoom level so it appears. This includes the list of MAILBOXES at bottom left and also the SEND button when composing a message.

    These crucial functions should either be moved up to the upper part of the display or remain durable at the bottom of the screen regardless of the level of zoom. Or at least allow the left panel and the overall page to be scrollable so…

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  8. Upper part Search area space

    The upper part Search area space and the menu bar space take up too thick area, almost one fourth of the page, if preview is open, the space for the mail is limited. It is barely workable with a desktop, for small notebooks, the screen size can hardly accommodate the mail area when upper and lower parts largely occupy the page

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  9. Provide a way to indicate that a mail item should be under a different tab

    I see Social mail items when viewing the Primary tab. I only want to see them under the All or Social tab, not under Primary. Please provide a way to indicate that any mail items from the sender's address be moved to a specified tab.

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  10. Restore folder list, restore "Archive/Done" button, restore previous "new" Yahoo Mail

    Three issues that still exist with the new Yahoo Mail interface on a laptop:
    (1) Folders still are not listed. I spend more time reading and searching email than writing email. I used to be able to see if I had new email in a folder. Having the folders another click (and scroll) away makes it significantly less pleasant to use Yahoo Mail. There are no "double arrows" for folders in the new interface as documented by Yahoo. Please list the folders again, or at least make a setting so that users can choose to have them listed.
    (2) When…

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  11. Email Accounts Should Be At Top of Sidebar

    The user's account is currently located at the bottom of email navigation bar. It should be at the top to make it easier to switch between email accounts.

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  12. Side Bar Width Can't Be Changed

    The email side bar can be minimized or restored BUT in the Restore mode folder names get truncated as one cannot make the width of the side bar wider. Allow making the side bar wider so entire folder's name is visible.

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  13. Bring back showing each email account

    Bring back the sidebar showing each email account on Yahoo. With the new version, one has to click on My Account and then select each email account to view. Before, each email account was shown on the sidebar and would show how many unread emails in each account.

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  14. For mail filters, reinstate Inbox as a folder for destination

    For mail filters, reinstate Inbox as a folder for destination. This lets me be certain that some emails do not go to the Junk or Spam folder. I know you say that all I have to do is mark the email as not spam, but that doesn't work all the time. I've missed very important emails because several came through, but the most important one wound up in Junk. Please help me prevent this, just like I used to be able to do.

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  16. Highlight selected email

    It would be helpful to differentiate the email I'm currently on much like it's easy to differentiate between Read and Unread emails. The new version puts a small sliver of my theme color next to the email I have open but it's too easy to miss it in the list of emails as you scroll through them.

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  17. All previous folders are missing in web view

    Folders are missing, I have a lot of them. Not sure why they're not visible on web, but are visible on phone app.

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  18. Your folder system is the worst!

    Tru=ying to save an e-mail from teh inbox to a folder is a nightmare. I just lost an e-mail because it went somewhere. Can't drop and drag and when I try to get to the subfolder it won't let me. Just junk. Used to be easy.

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  19. problem with accessing emails on the phone

    For some reason I'm unable to access my email for the last week on my phone through my Yahoo account

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  20. 1) Show the latest emails on top when it is part of previous email string or response. 2) The attchements get disappeared during when I send

    I am your paid customer and have been using Yahoo Mail since 1993, but your service need attention which is not User friendly now.
    1) How do you see the latest email on TOP, so your customers don't have to spend time scrolling down? This should be logical, but your email keeps the OLD on top which is annoying.
    2) My attachment disappears after I respond to the original email. This is also annoying and waste my time.
    Previous version of your Yahoo Mail did not have these problems.

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