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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. Delete messages from IN Box that have been moved to a folder

    When I move an email to one of my folders, it continues to show in my IN Box, though it shows as read. Can I change that in settings so that when it is moved, it no longer shows in the IN Box?

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  2. Deleting folders automatically when trying to move to a NEW folder?!

    I despise your new email set up from PC. I accidentally deleted very important emails regarding my car purchase trying to select them move to a new folder. i tried renaming the new folder now my emails are not in Trash they are GONE. Very displease with an already obnoxious email set up.

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  3. deleting trash/spam email

    I would rather see the delete all/select all icon when deleting the 100 spam emails than having to hit ctrl a.

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  4. Deleting email from the preview pane

    When deleting an email in the preview pane, I occasionally delete the wrong email if I click on the trash can at the "wrong" time. That "wrong" time is when new email arrives and pushes the list down by however many emails are posted in the preview pane at that time. Thus, if 2 emails arrive just as I click on the trash can, I end up deleting the email that is 2 spots above the one I intended to delete. This is greatly annoying as I receive 300-400 emails a day and now have to go to the Trash…

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  5. Can't DElete

    Why the **** isn't delete working for removing trash and spam? Every new "improvement" does nothing but cause more problems. What happened to being able to bring up a menu of all of the mail options, select trash or spam and click on delete and have it gone This whole thing is an incredible mess. Go back to the old one

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  6. select today for delete all

    Why would you take out the option to have a button to select all in order to delele several emails at once. You use to be able to separate your emails by day and week, then be able to delete them all at once. Now you force us to delete each email one at a time. it is very time consuming. If you did this to force us to pay for your subscription in order to have this feature, then you may have just found a way to lose your members and go to another provider. Or at least just…

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  7. Message Deleted pop up

    Please remove the pop-up "Message Deleted" within emails. It's not helpful when going through email and needing to delete quickly.

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  8. Deleted items but, message highlighting too obtuse

    2 things. I just deleted a bunch of messages, but they don't show in deleted messages. This feels like a bug. Also when going through inbox hitting delete, the currently selected message is not highlighted. You can only tell where you are by the floating controls on the right, but the eye is to the left looking at sender. Highlighting needs to be much clearer for this prices. I'm going back to classic until these issues are fixed

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  9. deleing draft

    I’m writing to express my deep disappointment with a recent experience I had using Yahoo Mail. I was in the middle of an important conversation and attempted to delete a draft. To my shock, this action deleted the entire conversation thread — not just the draft itself.

    This behavior is highly unintuitive and extremely frustrating. When a user chooses to delete a draft, the reasonable expectation is that only the draft message will be removed — not the entire conversation history. Losing an important conversation in this way was not only upsetting but also very disruptive.

    To make matters worse,…

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  10. filters

    How about .... making it so user filters actually work? As far as I can tell, your system offers these, but they do not work at all. For example, I would like to block anything with the letter pattern "offeestor" - it's almost like yahoo sponsors this spam, i.e., Yahoo is incapable of blocking it, and my user filters which should enable automatic deletion of anything having this letter pattern... are also completely nonfunctional. Please don't comment that my filters interfere with your spam protection, i.e., that's nonsense.

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  11. by not sending mail from inbox to draft

    I am surprised how an email from my inbox was transferred into drafts without the original email in the inbox. Now I have deleted the draft and lost a very important email.

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  12. Delete stupid additions

    unsubscribe pop up box and the whole thing just plain irritating. Get rid of the receipts, don't want it to be gin with, don't use it, and it takes up too much room. I don't need a record of my spending in my mail account.

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  13. email

    Everytime I delete an email, the next one also gets deleted!!!!! You really need to fix this!!!!!!!!

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  14. I do not know.

    Ideas are good :)

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  15. how to delete email using arrow keys

    I used to be able to delete email by highlighting one email and then using the arrow keys go down or up and select emails for deletion. It now seems that using the arrow keys selects from either the beginning or the end and starts highlighting versus where i have selected a particular email to start highlighting. What happened

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  16. spam mail delete

    Can you make it so that we can click on the box on front of the Spam mail we want to delete and just have all click delete? It's very time consuming to go through each one, hit the trash can, answer the delete button again for each one. If I sent them to Spam it's because I don't want to see them.

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  17. Filters not working

    I have set up several filters to stop getting my spam folder filled with junk mail. The filters are not working

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  18. Delete Autofill Contacts Permanently

    Please provide users an option to delete all the autofill contacts that Yahoo Mail saves. Many do not want the addresses of every person they ever corresponded with saved to an increasing long list of autofill contacts. You used to provide a way to hide these autofill suggestions (an X next to the name) before the recent Yahoo Mail update. Unfortunately, that method only worked temporarily until you logged out. Log back in, and all autofill contacts you hid were no longer hidden, which just makes for added frustration. Even turning off enhanced contacts has not removed any of these…

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  19. After unknowingly losing focus on the body of the message, I kept typing. This led to deletion of my draft and moving sev

    After unknowingly losing focus on the body of the message, I kept typing. This led to deletion of my draft and moving several messages from my search results into the Trash folder.

    I'm not sure what happened, but I think the following should be implemented to keep my data safe:
    - Don't execute commands with single keystrokes. Use a modifier like ctrl, cmd, option, etc.
    - Send deleted drafts to the Trash or "Deleted Drafts" folder. It's really frustrating to lose the message I spent several minutes typing.

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  20. Custom deleting

    A custom delete checkbox seems like a no-brainer add to have. When clicking upper box, yes there is a delete all. But when you're someone like me that has thousands of emails, but also gets a ton of trash emails to delete, the custom box could say... 'check all, check none, etc. like it has already. But now let's add 'delete today, delete last 2 days, delete to a certain date backwards'. You get the point as in 'Custom'

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