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updated my iphone & lost my yahoo email account

when i updated my iphone to 6.1, i lost my yahoo email account from my phone. when i in-put my account info and password... says yahoo mail is down. it's up and running when i log onto my computer. is anyone else having this same problem?

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1

Posted on Jan 29, 2013 11:59 AM

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Posted on Jan 29, 2013 12:02 PM

Yahoo email account is a common problem. The issue is on Yahoo and not your iphone.

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Feb 2, 2014 5:21 AM in response to etepay44

May have something to do with "second-sign in verification" in yahoo mail. Go to your yahoo account info section and click on link "Set up your second sign-in verification" where you will see a section that reads:


Certain apps don't work with Yahoo's second sign-in verification.
They include:

Mail apps like iOS Mail, Android Mail, and Outlook

To use these apps, you'll need to generate an app-specific password, and then enter it in the password field of your app.You'll only have to create and enter the password once for each app.

Click on the link to create this one-time password and use it when you create the yahoo account in your iphone settings.

updated my iphone & lost my yahoo email account

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