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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. Feedback

    Why is the GIVE FEEDBACK nothing more than a new idea. FEEDBACK to me you would want to know what's good and not so good. Fix the wording and quit misleading me and the rest of the users.

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  2. include all text in viewing area

    Email exceeds viewing area so scroll right or left required. Need to update viewing software to include all text in viewing area without scrolling.

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  3. Settings

    Wellll, so far not a fan. Is there a way to change the gray highlight behind each email in the inbox? Didn't see any option in settings. Things like this is the reason I stopped using Gmail after they insisted on their latest changes which imo completely ruined the interface and made it too hard to look at on my PC. Yahoo was the only last and best option. I loved the old interface but for some reason companies feel they have to change, possibly because engineers need to justify their existence or just need something to do, don't know,…

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  4. Improvement suggestions to reduce the terrible update to layout.

    Can you make the headers on Yahoo Mail smaller? The top of the web page takes up half the screen and the area for email is so reduced that it is difficult to read. I may still go back to the old format if that is an option as the update is so bad. The search bar, display option bar and Reply / Forward bar all are so deep that they take up half the laptop screen. I can't find a way to change this in layout.

    Where did the star / unstar option go from the email selection column?…

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Settings not saving

    Settings not saving

    On my Android phone whenever I sign into my Yahoo! Mail account, it shows me the new version of Mail. When I go into settings and change it back to the original Yahoo! Mail, it works. When I sign out and clear the cookies and history, I log in again and it has the new version of Yahoo! Mail again. This is not happening on the desktop version and also it is not happening with another Yahoo! Mail account that I have. Can you please correct the problem? That would really help me out! Thank you so…

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Standard Version of Yahoo Mail, Love it!

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

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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