Yahoo email not working in mail app with iOS 11

My yahoo email is not updating the inbox after I upgraded to iOS 11.0.1. The junk (spam) email still works but not the inbox. I have removed it and rebooted several times. The yahoo mail app works fine but I do not want to use it permanently. Any thoughts?

iPhone 7, iOS 11.0.1

Posted on Oct 2, 2017 12:16 PM

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Posted on Nov 11, 2017 7:39 AM

Just been playing around with this some more... I deleted the account (again) but when I re-installed it, instead of choosing the preset "yahoo" setup option l clicked "other", then manually set up the account using the following settings


incoming Server

Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server

  • Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
  • Port - 465
  • SSL - Yes


Now seems to be working and I have successfully sent and received emails

185 replies

Jan 21, 2018 6:58 PM in response to Ljoles

Iphone6 11.2.2 - this was happening even before latest update

Same problem, totally erratic behavior - many different issues, I have 2 Yahoo Accts both different behavior, one acct will be working fine not other, then vice versa. Right now 1 Acct is working fine, other totally stopped, but both work fine in iPad- totally weird behavior:

  1. Mails vanish- somehow I last 6 months emails will vanish on the iphone, somehow they will slowly update back (it has happened many times)
  2. Mails dont update - sometimes over a day
  3. Calendar does not sync

Apple you need to look into this urgently - very critical problem

Jan 22, 2018 9:41 AM in response to Community User

Based on what i see, this cannot be a yahoo issue. Not only my yahoo webmail works fine, it also works fine on my iPad. Also I do not any Pop Account. This is a iPhone issue.

Spoke to Apple Support - only thing they could suggest is setup my phone a New (not restore from backup) and then see what happens. I did not agree to setup a New (of course) but reset my phone from backup. Lets see how many days till the issue recurs (I hope not).


(Something is wrong with this site itself - the editor does not let me select/highlight - using Edge)

Jan 29, 2018 7:08 AM in response to sanjayB86

I recently installed the Outlook mail app and it seems to have a nice, clean interface and is, of course, Exchange friendly as well. In fact, it reminds me a lot of Apple Mail. Perhaps Outlook would be better choice than the Yahoo app. Note, however, that I have not used it extensively since it's my wife that has the Yahoo account. One thing I like about the Yahoo app is that you can "mark as spam" fairly easily with it. My gmail account almost NEVER receives spam, but my wife gets tons of spam in her Yahoo mail.

Feb 14, 2018 9:48 AM in response to luca214

I could finally add back my account after rebooting the phone. So back to square 1 (or 2).

  1. I had issues so first I added 'Security Key' - as suggested by Yahoo Help - did not help.
  2. Next I tried this app specific password - could not implement it. I think if you already have security key setup - it forces you down that path. Also App password and Security Key seem to be similar concepts- so probably one or the other. Did not help
  3. I have another yahoo account - have done nothing with it. It has similar issues as my other account. So trying all these has made no difference.😕


But my issues are sporadic and brief, unlike some are reporting permanent and long. For me these issues happen about once a week (or less) and last for a few hours to a day- then back to normal. I have backup Yahoo mail app.😀

Feb 17, 2018 8:17 AM in response to c0ugar13

I been having same problem with my Yahoo via mail configured on my phone. when I use apple mail on iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2.5(15D60) yahoo email dose not work. It dose not download all my yahoo email. It shows there are mail and it’s downloading but nothing shows in my inbox. This is been going on for fast couple months and last two updates. I took it into apple store and they tell me I need to contact Yahoo.

I told them

It works fine on the computer and even using yahoo mail app. But Apple never think it’s their problem.

Feb 17, 2018 10:54 AM in response to voula_72

Looks like yahoo has turned everything off right now to access their servers unless using their app. I’ve tried setting up imap thru iPhone mail manually, selecting the Yahoo! option, setting it up in iPhone outlook app and all I get is server unavailable or not responding. Very frustrating because I don’t want to use their app with annoying advertisements.

Feb 18, 2018 12:53 PM in response to liv0123

Yahoo's (mail) servers are not "down" -- I've had a steady stream of mail on my phone since deprecating the Apple Mail app and replacing it with Y!'s on Friday. Mail via WWW is similarly non-disrupted. What MIGHT be down (or more likely, disabled) is the apparatus Y! uses to authenticate access to mail via the Apple app. Where are you seeing this notification/information?

Mar 5, 2018 12:23 PM in response to fedinburgh

Yahoo is totally broken on iPhone/Apple. I have tried everything for last 2 months - nothing seems to work consistently - that is the problem. WebMail and apps are not in Sync - delete/read does not sync up. To top it Contacts and Calendar are totally broken.


It does not matter problem is at Apple or Yahoo - they need to work together and sort this out - blaming each other is not helping any of the users.


Yahoo Mail app is also not the solution - to begin with it has bad UI (icons and lack of multi-select), no Calendar and Contacts - what have they been thinking😕.


Lot of us have grew with Yahoo last 20++ years - hard to let it go. But end seems near/inevitable at the current rate😟.

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