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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. Current Open Email Indicator Bar

    When i am reading my emails with my inbox or folder on the left and the email on the right of the screen, the only indicator on the left in the list of emails of which one I am currently reading is a small, slim purple bar on the right of the email subject and first line card. This little purple bar gets partially covered by the scroll up and down bar when not hovering over it and is completely covered by it if you start using the scroll bar. My preference would be that you make the purple bar…

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  2. Make all email accounts visable

    Please make all email accounts we use visable, without having to switch back and forth. It's very inconvenient.

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  3. New version is very messay

    why I love my old version cos
    - unread emails have clear subject headers with their categories / folders name behind
    - now it is infront and makes reading mail headers interrupted by folder name first
    - row separator colors are clear and distinctive, making scanning email headers easy
    - fonts are better compressed and clear

    i really prefer the old email

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  4. Please bring back D+0 Shortcut (Move to Inbox)

    Please bring back D+0 Shortcut (Move to Inbox)

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  5. Accessibility is worse

    Reducing the email list field makes this very difficult to see my emails. The huge space on the right for ads is animated and distracting and makes it impossible. Why reduce the usable field of view and clutter the remaining space? This reduces utility and renders yahoo mail inaccessible for those with vision differences. I would like to opt out of the new look because I cannot use as-is.

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  6. one click for read / unread

    make it like it was before: one click to change from read to unread : at least a click on the place where dot appears when you set unread using the long path..

    the same for the star also!

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  7. Overall improvements needed

    Your interface is extremely slow. I'm on a MacBook Air accessing with Safari, and your new email interface is super slow. I don't know what's going on in the background, but it's taking up to a full minute for a message to display. I desperately want to go back to your old interface.

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  8. Move a hidden menu

    Hello - There is a menu item that is quite hidden.
    At the very bottom of the left hand "folder" list is a ...More menu. In there are settings, storage options, feedback, help, etc. If you don't scroll to the very bottom of your folder list, you won't even know it's there.

    Can you take that ...More menu out of the folder list and put it UNDER the folder list, just above the Storage and Mailbox selectors? It is still at the bottom left and out of the way but not hidden in a folder list that, for me at…

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  9. Keep my old folders

    Everything got dumped into inbox from the folders they were archived in.

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  10. Newly launched Yahoo Mail makes it frustratingly difficult to navigate email

    Hi, I opened my email today to find that it's been updated. I'm using it in a web browser. The first thing I noticed is that when slowly scrolling down, the pagination-based loading makes my view of the email list jump down and skip many emails, so I lose my place. I scroll back up to find the emails it skipped past, then it jumps way up again, past the emails I was trying to see. It's very frustrating, because I can't simply scroll down to the emails that I want to see, due to this jumping around. A slightly…

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  11. SLOWWWWWWW

    Why is the new Yahoo so SLOW?!? Switching between emails take 3x longer than classic Yahoo. When I want to move an email to a folder and I start typing it literally take 5+ seconds to find the folder, whereas with Classic Yahoo it found it while I was typing. This is really hard to use. You need to figure out what's making this version so slow and fix it. It's unusable.

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  12. Primary email category

    Primary email category is not available on Yahoo mail web version (Desktop version)

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  13. when clicking the account Icon don't have it disappear

    When looking for my account information, I click on the circle icon, and it goes away. it is currently set to hover, remove the click functionality, as it is frustrating to have it disappear. Everything else is a click.

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  14. Allow for USER DEFINED DEFAULT VIEW based on SORT

    God's sakes, I KNOW this has been requested over and over.

    "The inability to set 'Sort by Sender name' as a permanent default inbox view makes inbox cleanup incredibly frustrating. The page constantly forces a reset back to chronological order while I am trying to delete bulk spam. Please update the UI settings to allow users to permanently lock their preferred layout view" ... he screams again into the void....

    Yes, you have added OTHER TOOLS to help in this but has it occurred to anyone that we may actually NEED to use our actual senses (eyes) before a deletion??

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  15. Let me block spam senders again

    Until recently I was able to block senders from my spam folder. I'd like to have that ability again.

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  16. IDEA BELOW KEEP PURPLE SO I CAN SEE

    I HAD EYE PROBLEMS SURGERY HAD TO SOLDER EYE TO BACK OF HEAD FROM PHIZER SHOT CAN NEVER LOOK AT WHITE SCREEN EVER AGAIN SO PREFER THE PURPLE TO COUNTER BALANCE ALL THE WHITE SCREEN SO NEED TO USE OLDPURPLE VERSION OR PLEASE HAVE THE CONTRAST OR I CAN NEVER USE YAHOO AGAIN SURGEON SAID I WILL GO BLND FOREVER PLEASE CONSIDER CANNOT DO ALL JUST WHITE SCREEN.MY FATHER DIED 1O2 WAS BLIND 15 YRS MACULAR DEGENERATION.

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  17. Drag and Drop Emails Into Folders (The old one did this)

    We can no longer Drag and Drop Emails Into Folders (The old one did this).

    Now, when you click on folders, they show up in a pop-in box that does not allow drag and drop.
    It is very tedious to use the "Move" command and find a folder.

    When I switch back to the "old" format, the folders are in a huge ling list with no way to open/close the subfolders.

    Also, in the new format when typing in a folder name to move email to, the system freezes more times than not.

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  18. Shift focus to the email body by default

    When I access yahoo emails through the browser, and when I move from one email to the next (say when I have deleted an email), the cursor automatically doesn't shift focus to the next email body. It remains somewhere in the browser. I cannot automatically start scrolling the next email. I have to click inside the email body and only then I can scroll up and down. This is very frustrating especially for users who prefer to use the keyboard only. Please automatically shift focus to email body when a new email is opened.

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  19. Option in left toolbar to expand/collapse Folders panel

    In the past week, the left panel listing personal email folders has been replaced with a column of icons (Inbox, Sent, Spam, Drafts, Deleted Items, Folders). The hidden folders makes it very inconvenient
    - Adds more steps to access folder contents
    - Cannot quickly switch between folders. Must open the submenu each time.
    These are common actions that now take twice as long to navigate.

    If the folder panel still exists, I cannot find it. Therefore it would improve the UX for a clear Collapse/Expand button or menu option to return the panel.

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  20. Remember the eMail Sort or save the sort preference if you want older emails first

    why can't the sort preference be saved to older emails first? Why does it default to newer emails first. It seems basic to be able to save or remember the sort preference.

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