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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?
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!
Resize Images - Resize an image within the message.
Multi-Tasking Tabs - Like before, open an email in a new tab.
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.
Drag and drop messages to folders - Just click and hold on an email message, then drag and drop that message into a different folder. 
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. SEARCH IN BODY OF EMAIL

    SEARCH IN BODY OF EMAIL... IIRC, the old Yahoo Mail allowed you to search not just for words in the title, but also in the body of the email. The new Yahoo email appears to only allow searching for words in the title of the email.

    Can we go back to the old way?

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  2. (BUG) Sign in Freezes Page When Signing in or Switching Accounts

    There is an ongoing bug with new Yahoo Mail where signing in freezes the page, Freezing the page also happens when switching accounts. This was an issue a few days ago. It got fixed temporarily and now it's back again (March 15, 2025) This happens regardless of browser being used.

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  3. good email company

    What is a good email company that values their customers wishes?

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  4. Search using keywords

    Je suis très mécontent de ne plus pouvoir faire des recherches dans les anciens mails à partir des "mots clés"
    Depuis la modification récente, je ne peux faire ces recherches qu'à partir de l'objet du mail
    C'est insupportable
    Que me proposez-vous ?
    Cordialement
    Yves Desporte
    cydesporte@yahoo.fr

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  5. search doesn't work in spam

    Hello, the Search feature does not work for the Spam folder. even going to the Spam folder and seeing the exact email you want to search for and type in the key word and it says "there is nothing in this folder" This is a major issue as you know the automatic Spam filter is not always accurate and occasionally moves important emails to spam. Someone says they sent the email, you search and Yahoo says it's not there. That is an issue.

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  6. Search by Name

    Please restore Search by Name as an option under More (3 dots) in the inbox. This was convenient to drag and drop multiple messages to another folder; or to read a series of messages from the sender. Removal of that option now requires a Search your Mail, which is imprecise, retrieving many irrelevant messages not from the sender. (Admittedly, a filter exists for search by From, but it’s not obvious)

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  7. search function and trash folder

    the search feature is NOT working, I can't find items in any email box I want. I find results from years ago but nothing current. Why does the trash folder no longer show up in my list of folders?

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  8. Remove suggested results from search

    When searching my inbox, I'm being served 2 emails (which I assume Yahoo is suggesting as my intended search results) above the full list of my queried emails. These 2 emails are displayed as massive thumbnails and fill half of the space within my viewport. It makes searching through the full list of queried emails much more difficult. Please allow for the option to disable this feature.

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  9. Search function is useless

    Whenever I try to search for an email message I know I have, the search bar never finds it. But then when I scroll and scroll and scroll, I finally find it myself. My search used the same subject line, or I would search by the sender, and nothing. Completely useless and frustrating when you need to find something quickly.

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  10. emails dissappearing

    My emails are disappearing after I send them. I've sent two emails today and cannot find them in the sent folder

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  11. search mail

    Aside from hating this new version and wanting yahoo basic back, the search is useless to me without being able to search for a word in the body of the email. When I want to see all the emails in my inbox asking for a "donation" I do not expect search to say there are none when there are hundreds! This sucks!

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  12. Frequent Yahoo Mail Search Errors

    Over the last ~6 months, I am frequently encountering performance errors (e.g., "An error occurred while trying to fetch the items in this list. Retry." for Starred items); inability to load email content on older messages; grinding slow/no results when trying to page back in Inbox or Sent mail folders for messages only a few months old. These issues are becoming so constant that I am using other email accounts for more reliable communication. What's going on with your backend Yahoo?! John

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  13. SEARCH like I could in the older version on Yahoo. The Yahoo I had in February.

    When I search my IN Boc, I get results from emails that already in Folders. I want to be able to search like I could in the February version of Yahoo. I could search by IN BOX or SENT or by FOLDER.

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  14. Mail Advanced Search Does not Search Name Adequately

    Hello,

    Your advanced search form in Mail should search by rendered name in order to help users bulk identify spam.

    I am receiving a lot of spam from addresses encoded like this:
    From: =?UTF-8?B?86CBvU5h86CBvfOggb1086CBvfOggb3zoIG9afOggb1v86CBvfOggb3zoIG986CBvfOggb1u86CBvfOggb3zoIG9YfOggb1sRGVi86CBvfOggb10UvOggb1l86CBvfOggb1s86CBvWnzoIG9ZWbzoIG9LmNv86CBvfOggb1t86CBvfOggb4=?= zxtxlaluqr@gaviner.com

    Many of them will display with the same name in the From, such as "NationalDebtRelief.com". You cannot search for these and mark them all as spam because the "NationalDebtRelief" as a search term gets no results due to the encoding.

    In any case, a From address like this should be a huge red flare for your spam filter. Why do users even have to mark…

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  15. Correct email search

    This issue does not have a listed category. I don't where else to discuss this issue.
    I have just deleted two emails from an individual I view often. I do a search to review one of the emails and all I get is two emails from May and June. Why not the rest of them? I do a visual scan in trash and I locate the desired email. This not the first such incident. What am i doing wrong

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  16. the location of the search box makes it hard to delete or move emails. Why can't the search box be moved?

    The search box is placed right over the icons to delete, move, etc. The only way I can delete old mail is to reduce my screen to 80%. I am a senior citizen and I can hardly read it at 80%. I have been unable to move or change the location of the search box, and it interferes with my ability to delete mail. Since you are changing the policy of how many GBs we can have, why have you made it so hard to delete old mail without having to reduce the script size?

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  17. Improve search and move features

    I feel like the search was downgraded in the new mail. There are less filters in the search bar and it seems to be more difficult to search by a sender than it was previously. Why not put the search option in the menu that appears when you hit control click? I'd rather have that than the "view raw message" option...that seems completely useless to me. Same with moving emails to folders, I feel like that was downgraded too. Maybe the expectation is that AI will sort emails for us, but I already didn't like how I wasn't seeing things…

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  18. sort by subject

    I really miss the ability to sort the e-mails in my box by subject (re: line). I get a lot from the same person, on many different topics. So when I want to clean up what I don't need, sorting by sender doesn't help if I can't sort by the subject line.

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  19. search undependable

    why does the search option disappear after it is used once.
    I truly need this functionality. this problem has me waffling
    about keeping this as a paid service.

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  20. filter search by mail folder

    Advanced searches for messages in New Yahoo Mail no longer have the ability to filter to only the Inbox. Can you bring that back?

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