Yahoo Mail iOS app gets customizable swipes & other enhancements in latest update

With over 100 million installs, at least one or two people are using the Android app. Those folks are gaining a few new ways to manage their inbox in the latest update. On iOS, you can now see all your recently received attachments when you’re composing a new email, alongside a search box to help you find items by keyword or person.

“We’ve made it easier to discover and create conversations with a community around engaging content and follow the latest developing stories in a almost infinite news stream”, said Simon Khalaf, Senior Vice President, Yahoo in a blog post on Thursday, detailing the changes to the Yahoo app and home page. More interestingly, the app was updated to work with multiple mailboxes that not only support those on Yahoo Mail itself but also those on Outlook.com, Hotmail, and AOL. But now users will be able to set it to star, archive or sort messages into folders as well.

Today’s update will no doubt be welcomed by fans of the Mail app, but will do little salvage Yahoo’s ailing fortunes.

The iOS users will get the same update sans the option to perform swipe actions directly from notification.

The custom swipe actions allow a user to decide what will happen when they swipe a particular message left or right. Yahoo’s current options allow users to swipe right to mark an email as read or unread, while swiping left deletes the email. The other new feature, being notification actions, is tied into the custom swipe actions.

Other new features include the addition of “Star” and “Mark as spam” to the multi-select toolbar. Users can access the folder management option from the left sidebar, which brings up the folder list. “The actions available in your notifications are the same ones you’ve selected for swipe actions”.