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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?
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!
Inbox Categories - Default to "All" category instead of always Priority.
AI Summaries - Ability to disable this under Settings.
Right Hand Column - Ability to minimize: Contacts, Starred, More (Currently Yahoo Mail Plus subscribers)


TIPS:
Drag and drop messages to folders - Just click and hold on an email message, then drag and drop that message into a different folder. 
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. 
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. Empty Inbox of all messages at once

    I want to be able to clear all my email messages at once....there are 6000 old messages in my inbox. UGH

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  2. Put spam and trash folder on main list

    Put the spam and trash folder back on default list of folders in top of list

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  3. Email deleted because of glitch

    This is the 4th time I'm reporting this error. While in my drafts folder editing an email for final draft I've had multiple emails just get deleted. This time I lost two drafts while editing my email text. Today I was editing and while moving to edit some text and using the backspace button I had two emails suddenly delete. I didn't hit the delete button. I also cant find the deleted email in my trash folder. Why doesn't deleted email go to the trash folder no matter how its deleted? While editing I sometimes notice the web browser get…

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  4. Read this

    1) Get rid of this stupid idea box.

    2) Give me back a draft folder that keeps my compositions and allows me to finish them at a later date.

    3) Reread #2 and act on it.

    4) Never, ever make changes without knowing first just how ****** they are.

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  5. select all

    Please bring back the "select all" option for email deletion. I use this email for professional purposes and the amount of targeted emails is overwhelming and it takes far too long to delete them one at a time.

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  6. Inbox Count

    Inbox used to have a number indicating how many unread emails there were. Please bring that back as that was super helpful. Thanks.

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  7. Need to be able to pin additional folder options

    Right now the Spam, Archive, Trash, Settings, etc. features are all hidden in the ellipsis menu when there is a lot of extra space in the left hand navigation pane. These options should be optionally hidden (pin / unpin) vs. having go to the hidden menu all the time (especially for Spam mail). Also we lost "empty all spam messages" feature in the redesign.

    It would also be nice to be able to re-order the navigation pane.

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  8. Make the shortcut to delete the email you're writing UNDOable and harder to trigger

    I REALLY HATE that you have a keyboard shortcut that deletes the email your WRITING with NO chance to undelete it. I clicked the delete/backspace key, and if my comp shift/ctrl sticks at all then it's just gone. Horrible. At least send it to the trash where you can undelete the thing. Not even an 'undo' that I saw. Tried ctrl z. Arg!!

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  9. refresh glitch

    I'm using latest Google Chrome. During checking emails and deleting, Yahoo Mail keeps refreshing and putting me back to the top when I was scrolling down a couple of hundred emails. I have to scroll down to find my spot, but then refreshes again and I can never get lower than a 100 emails or so. Also, while writing from a saved draft, Yahoo Mail refreshes and puts me out or opens a new draft, or scrolls down to the bottom of the message. Then finally, the draft disappeared and is nowhere to be found!!! Please bring the old Yahoo…

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  10. RECOVER MY DRAFTS

    WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL MY DRAFTS POOF GONE AND I DID NOT DELETE THEM HOW DO I GET THEM BACK

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  11. restore deleted draft

    My computer has been acting up the last few days and has been deleting drafts while I am typing them which only frustrating because when a draft email is deleted it is deleted permanently and the yahoo website says it cannot be restored. Can we please change this setting so that a draft email goes into the trash rather than being permanently deleted? Its extremely frustrating to be halfway through a one page email with a lot of detail to then have it be completely deleted.

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  12. Bug in mail filters

    Mail filters are broken since May 28th, 2025. If an incoming email matches two filters, previously the filter that was higher in the filter list was applied. Now it seems some arbitrary rule is used to determine which rule gets applied in such cases. I have a filter on the "From" field and another filter on the "To" field for incoming emails. If an email matches both filters and the "From" field filter is above the "To" field filter, previously the former filter took precedence. However, since May 28th, 2025, the "To" field filter always takes precedence regardless of its…

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  13. search contacts

    I add a new contact. I use the search to find it. it doesn't show up. if I look manually through the contacts, it is there. but it does not show up under search. why??

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  14. backspace deletes emails that are being replied to

    When I try to reply to an email and I hit the back space, at all, it deletes the entire email. I just hit the back space on a very important thread of emails and it permanently deleted the entire string of emails I have been trying to work out a return for an expensive product for. When an email is in my inbox, it will automatically send it to the trash folder and exit the email if I press the back space and it does this without warning. the reply function/forward seems very buggy and there was also an…

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  15. Disappearing emails....

    Darn it!!!!!! Was in the process of writing an important email when a box kept asking, every few seconds, if I wanted to "leave the page" or "stay on the page". In each instance I checked "STAY". After a series of this message, the EMAIL DISAPPEARED INTO OBLIVION. IT IS NOT IN THE DRAFTS, SENT, TRASH FOLDERS!!!!!
    What are you people doing? Is this your way of destroying what was a well-functioning service? Thank you for continuing to "improve" on this mess.

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  16. Scrolling with Up/Down arrows and Page up/down keys

    My Up/Down arrow and Page Up/Down sometime scroll, but not always. What do I have to do to always have those functions operate? It would sure make reading my emails on Yahoo a whole lot easier, instead of frustrating.

    Thank you very much!

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  17. Did not see what I was looking for

    Three things:
    1) skips/jumps and jitters when scrolling - not smooth
    2) sometimes returns to a different set of messages after reading the message, not the one you selected to read
    3) sometimes jumps down two screens of messages when scrolling - very annoying

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  18. edit subject in draft

    When composing an email, if I click in the text field without first typing in the Subject field, I am unable to go back and edit the Subject Field. The only workaround that I've found is to make a change in the To field first, then it lets you edit Subject. This is annoying.

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  19. Ctrl+Shift+V

    In Chrome browser on a Windows laptop, Ctrl+Shift+V usually means "paste as plain text" but when I use that in Yahoo! mail it actually sends the email (prematurely) with no way to call it back. Please make Ctrl+Shift+V paste text instead of sending the email.

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  20. I am having trouble replying to messages. It won't allow me to finish a reply being typed without making multiple erroneous letter entries.

    I am having trouble replying to messages. It won't allow me to finish a reply being typed without making multiple erroneous letter entries. Help!

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