Yahoo Mail now supports linking with other email accounts, including Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and AOL, enabling users to manage all their emails from a single interface
Yahoo Mail is launching a series of updates on its desktop platform, with new AI capabilities targeted at improving email and task management.
Among these enhancements is a feature that generates brief AI summaries of emails, highlighting key tasks and actions with bulleted lists.
This function is part of a new Priority inbox tab, which uses AI to identify and prioritize the most important messages. Gmail has introduced a similar summaries feature for its mobile app, but access to it is restricted to Workspace and Google One AI Premium subscribers.
In addition to AI-generated summaries, Yahoo Mail is simplifying email interactions with quick action buttons directly in the inbox. These buttons enable users to perform tasks such as adding calendar events, checking in for flights, and tracking packages with ease.
A new persistent “starred view” panel also allows users to quickly access their most important tasks and revisit significant emails.
Again, Yahoo Mail now supports linking with other email accounts, including Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and AOL, enabling users to manage all their emails from a single interface. This integration simplifies the process of handling multiple email accounts simultaneously.
Kyle Miller, Yahoo Mail’s VP of product, highlighted the convenience of the new features: “People are craving better ways to streamline the daily activities that often bog us down, like managing multiple email accounts, sorting out schedules, reading through long messages, and tracking orders. The new features we’re launching are aimed at making life that much easier for anyone that relies on email.”
These updates are being made available to new users in the US immediately and will roll out to existing US users on an opt-in basis starting today. Yahoo plans to introduce these features to its mobile app in the future.
Yahoo Mail’s move into AI is not new. Last summer, it incorporated several AI-driven features, such as an enhanced search function, the Shopping Save feature to locate forgotten gift cards and discount codes, and a writing assistant to help users compose emails with the right tone.
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