Yahoo new email app lets you skip passwords and heralds a new era for the forgotten yodel company.
On the 15th of October 2015, the company has unveiled a rebranded email app. Along with it, Yahoo introduces the Account Key feature. This lets their users log into the email app without entering passwords.
The new update brings with it support for more breeds of email accounts – this includes Hotmail and Outlook.
If you enable the Account Key feature, not only will you able to log into email accounts by circumventing the input-password process, but it will also send a push notification for users to accept. This replaces the use of a password. The motive behind this somewhat crazy new idea is that users will immediately be able to refuse access to unwarranted attempts.
Yahoo claims that this is more secure than the conventional password because once activated, as in the Account Key feature, even if a crooked hacker gets hold of your credentials, he still can’t sign in because you don’t allow him to.
Dylan Casey, the company’s Vice President of product management says in a statement that this will indeed prove to be the ultimate security feature.
While this isn’t the first time that the Yodel introduces something to decrease the dependency of passwords, it clearly is the first time it offers such a, one might say, controversial feature. The new Account Key will also succeed the on-demand email password item that was announced at the dawn of 2015 – we know realise that it was an entry level Account Key that was aimed to test the waters.
Yahoo has stated that their new feature will be available for the company’s entirety of apps in the near future – earlier for some.
The Yahoo new email app looks the part – with a more fresh and simple approach to design. It’s cleaner and easier to use than its previous older brothers and sisters. The search-engine-extinct has even simplified it by adding gestures so the user can swipe to mark a message as read, delete it and even select multiple emails at once if you press long enough on a message.
The app’s in-house search function seems to have been vastly improved and users can filter search results by attachments and pictures.
One of the most sought-after features that Yahoo Mail users were hoping to get has finally arrived. The Yahoo new email app now supports non-Yahoo mail accounts. This includes Outlook, AOL and Hotmail – it will works while using the app and also on Yahoo’s website itself.
It’s currently available only for US-based users, but the company notes that it will begin to roll out to more countries pretty soon.
You can download the yahoo new email app for iOS and Android.
