New Yahoo Mail App Dispenses With Passwords
- 9 years ago
"We're basically going to kill passwords," Yahoo's Fernando Delgado said during a recent press briefing about the new Yahoo mail apps.
But a novel way to bypass passwords is just one of the features found on Yahoo's new iOS and Android apps, which arrive on the still widely used Yahoo Mail's 18th birthday.
The apps, as well as the Yahoo Mail Web interface, can now handle multiple email accounts.
Yahoo Account Key uses push notifications to verify you rather than making you type in a password.
As Delgado put it, the current username and password standard has become too complex and doesn't actually protect the user.
Like a lot of recent mobile mail clients, the Yahoo Mail app now lets you swipe right and left to delete or mark an email as read.
In addition to Yahoo mail accounts, the new app supports Outlook.com, Hotmail, and AOL Mail accounts.
But a novel way to bypass passwords is just one of the features found on Yahoo's new iOS and Android apps, which arrive on the still widely used Yahoo Mail's 18th birthday.
The apps, as well as the Yahoo Mail Web interface, can now handle multiple email accounts.
Yahoo Account Key uses push notifications to verify you rather than making you type in a password.
As Delgado put it, the current username and password standard has become too complex and doesn't actually protect the user.
Like a lot of recent mobile mail clients, the Yahoo Mail app now lets you swipe right and left to delete or mark an email as read.
In addition to Yahoo mail accounts, the new app supports Outlook.com, Hotmail, and AOL Mail accounts.