How does one return to the old Yahoo Mail look? The new one is terrible.

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I feel your pain! Mine just changed today after an unrelated restart. It's terrible. There is no gear icon, no settings menu, no way to change back to old Yahoo mail, no way to personalize it with colors or anything. Just a stripped down, horrid white page. I previously set up Gmail accounts for other purposes, but kept my same old Yahoo mail for certain things. Looks like I'll migrate all of it to Gmail after this fiasco. EDIT: OMG I just found the settings icon. They buried the three dots at the lower left bottom of the page below all of the folders. What a dumb place to put it. But color themes are gone, only light, dark, and auto modes. Answer from goldentalus70 on reddit.com

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February 11, 2025 -

When the new Yahoo Mail look was rolled out I switched it back to the old look as it was more efficient and used my full screen width.

Today when I went into my Yahoo Mail account it was switched to the new look and the option to restore it to the original older look via the upper right hand menu is gone.

Is there any way to return to the old mail look, or is that option gone forever.

The new look is utterly terrible. It uses only about half my screen and compacts everything into a stupid Instagram-type look that makes it look like I'm trying to read off of a phone screen instead of a laptop screen. It is terrible for reading emails, finding old emails, or doing anything productive with it.

How do I restore the old and far better and more usable look and interface?

EDIT:

Here is the fix for now. No idea how much longer this will work.

Lower left of the main email page, look for 3 dots. Go to Settings and switch to Basic Email. Then close that window and go to this link: https://mail.yahoo.com/d/settings/0.

Bookmark that link.

From that link click the link in the upper left "return to email".

Use that bookmarked link to enter Yahoo Mail from now on.

For now that resurrects the old email system, but if you close or refresh the window you need to go back to that link you bookmarked.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed the necessary parts to get back to the original email, even if it is in a kludgy way with an uncertain future.

And make your displeasure known to Yahoo. It may not have any effect, but not doing anything will definitely not have any effect.

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I feel your pain! Mine just changed today after an unrelated restart. It's terrible. There is no gear icon, no settings menu, no way to change back to old Yahoo mail, no way to personalize it with colors or anything. Just a stripped down, horrid white page. I previously set up Gmail accounts for other purposes, but kept my same old Yahoo mail for certain things. Looks like I'll migrate all of it to Gmail after this fiasco. EDIT: OMG I just found the settings icon. They buried the three dots at the lower left bottom of the page below all of the folders. What a dumb place to put it. But color themes are gone, only light, dark, and auto modes.

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Somewhere on the screen it should have a button to return to the old email. I was about to show you how and then I screwed myself and went back to the present version. Oh well.

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