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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
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!
Total Number of Emails - See total number and not just unread messages.
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:
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.
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. Inbox spacing

    Basic mail has 3 choices for inbox spacing. Small lets you see many more emails in a browser window. This new mail shows too few, with no option to change (that I can find, anyway).

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  2. Small UI oddities and tweaks

    1. Each popover should have an arrow pointing to the button that opened it. This is particularly helpful for the folder context menus.
    2. The "more on Yahoo" popover could use some icons.
    3. In the light theme, the search placeholder text becomes more contrastive when the search bar is focused. This is kind of backwards. Also ensure the two themes are consistent with each other here.

    The rest of these concern issues with the dark theme specifically:
    4. This might be the most important: The automatic dark theme application to emails needs a lot of work, even just in simple ways. Pure…

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  3. Cluttered screen

    Get rid of the little circles with initials which appear right next to the sender's name. They are of no use--the name is right there! Just clutter on my screen.

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  4. Update Yahoo Mail Settings

    both the mobile & desktop settings are very outdated and should be updated. its like i am going from 2025 right back to 2015 when i go on settings. to start, add icons on the left side of the name, exactly like for example, the settings button with the gear icon next to it. this would be huge for me and make me want to stay on yahoo mail

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  5. Reduce white space / padding

    There is too much space / padding between the UI elements in New Yahoo Mail.

    Even on a full-HD screen there is too little space to view the actual email (without having to open it in seperate view every time).

    You should consider providing a switch between "comfortable" and "compact" theme, to maximize screen realestate.

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  6. Inbox view suggestions

    • Need to be able to turn off the right pane
    • I don't need to see calendar or contacts from my inbox

    • Left pane needs to be collapsable with one click

    • Email messages list, need a compact view where the messages are not spaced out (similar to old yahoo mail view).

    • I typed a whole comprehensive suggestion previously, and then when i clicked on POST IDEA, it gave me a 404 Userview page cannot be found error, even though I was already signed in? This is my last attempt.

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  7. New Yahoo Mail Improvements (Return of abandoned features)

    (1) Bring back the ability to customize email color themes to new Yahoo Mail. (2) Please update the Yahoo Calendar as well to match Mail look. (3) Make visibility of all default folders (i.e. SPAM, Trash) at all times along with the custom folders.

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  8. Visually Challenged Users Need Higher Contrast For Reading (at least I do)

    Please consider making a theme or a setting for the visually impaired. I need a darker, higher contrasting color for me to read easily. I am 76, I am still trying to run my own business. My emails are extemely difficult to read. The light gray letters on the off-white background provides very weak contrast. And the webpages could be better for us visually challenged users.

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  9. dark mode

    Dark mode is in need of some DRASTIC improvement. I've never seen dark mode on a webpage that was so monotone! Seeing the read vs. unread mail is hard to distinguish, the search box is the same color as the overall mail background page, the entirety of the font being just stark white on either deep black or deep grey. I get migraines from bright white webpages so I need to use dark mode, but I hate Yahoo Mail's dark mode with a passion and am thinking of just switching over to a different service!
    Also, the stars on starred…

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  10. Email list view is hard to read in the current version vs classic / basic

    In the classic email version, it was much easier to read / see the list of emails. The current version that I'm now being forced to use is much harder to read. The flat view in Classic was much better than the bold & highlighted features in the current version. Having some functionality to change the list "view" would be great. Thanks

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  11. themes

    pLEASE REMOVE FOREST /TREES SCENE AT TOP OF EMAIL. jUST TAKES UP VIEWING space. Should be an option to remove unwanted/unneeeded scenes

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  12. Dark Mode

    New Dark mode is too hard to tell the unread mail from the read mail. Light mode is good.

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  13. Contact List to full screen & a raw data clipboard

    Software ought to make user tasks more efficient. Attempting to locate contacts, then create a new contact is all but impossible ... there ought to be a means to expand contacts to half or full screen for ease of use ... if you want to do more allow a cut / paste raw data clipboard to drop all that I need to include in the contacts that I can't because the new contact listing process stinks.

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  14. inbox size

    The new interface is deficient in a number of ways. It's poorly designed. The size of the inbox window was made unnecessarily smaller than the available screen space for the purpose of pure esthetic appeal. The color shades for dark mode are ill-chosen making it difficult to view the page in a relaxed manner. Last but not least, the highlighting scheme for read and unread messages is counterintuitive, and opposite of standard convention. All in all, a series of flagrant disregards for the principle of 'form follows function'. The previous version was far better that what your design team came…

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  15. Signature Text Color Changed (on PC using web-based Yahoo Mail in Dark Theme)

    I love the new better Yahoo Email interface including the carried-over availability of the Dark Theme -- EXCEPT for my Signature (the text one can designate to be automatically attached at the end of every email one sends) appears to me (while on my Windows desktop computer and in Dark Theme) to be changed in color, even though on my phone in the app and I think to everybody else the color is intact. In my case, my urbane, quietly sophisticated dark gray color I use for my signature text is changed (again only while on my computer) from dark…

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  16. New Home Page

    I Hate the New desktop...it is both confusing and ANNOYING it plays audio content automatically which is distracting and I can't turn it off. Please stop using it or I will be forced to to close my account.

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  17. Feedback on the new design and some recommendations.

    I’m not a fan of the new design. In my opinion, on PC everything feels overly rounded, a sort of Gmail which makes it look forced rather than professional. The email logo/icons appear pixelated within the circles. Additionally, the font is too thick, with letters that have a very uniform size, which impacts readability. I suggest adding some effects to the top and bottom or sides of the main box to enhance its visual appeal. It would also be great to have more theme options, including colored versions. On the phone, the design is okay, except for the font.

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  18. Light/Dark

    Light/Dark LARGE Toggle Button in top corner of Screen.. It's taking me too long or non-intuitive how to change back to Light from DARK

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  19. 3 Things to Improve (Urgent)

    1. Have the capability to make newsletter, offers optional
    2. Able to make the folders flattened out on the right pannel with email notification numbers
    3. Geo map location and meeting when schedule

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  20. Yes, go back to the old version. If I wanted G-mail or the G-mail look and function, I would leave Yahoo

    Yes, go back to the old version. If I wanted G-mail or the G-mail look and function, I would leave Yahoo

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