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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. 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. Selected email...

    Selected email should all be highlighted purple instead of the little purple line on the right side of the tab

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  4. personnaliser

    Bonjour
    Apporter du changement c'est bien, mais c'est mieux lorsque nous sommes mis au courant...merci
    Et pourquoi il n'y a plus de couleurs dans la présentation

    bonne journée

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  5. envelope icon for read messages

    Hello,

    I wanted to share a suggestion to help improve clarity in your email interface. Currently, when an email is marked as read, the envelope icon remains closed, which is confusing, traditionally, a closed envelope indicates an unread message. It would be more intuitive if the envelope appeared open once the message has been read.

    Right now, the only indication that a message has been read is the greyed-out text, but the closed envelope icon suggests otherwise. Updating the icon to an open envelope for read messages would make the status much clearer at a glance.

    Thank you for considering…

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  6. Display

    Dans la section paramètre, vous devriez remettre les options suivantes :
    1. Possibilité de configurer le nombre de mail à afficher dans la liste de mails
    2. Possibilité de modifier les thèmes distinguant les messages lus et non lus.

    Merci par avance

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  7. Nothing new or improved about it

    I really wish the new look wouldn't have been forced on me. It is much worse, too visually busy and interrupts my workflow. It is a serious and disappointing downgrade.

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  8. 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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  9. Standard Version of Yahoo Mail, Love it!

    how do I keep the Standard Version of Yahoo Mail, love it!

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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