Yahoo Mail dispenses with passwords and gets a redesign

In the near future, we will not be so dependent on our Passwords. O Yahoo Mail he is one of the first to participate in this revolution; the company has completely redesigned its app and announced the function “Account Key” that connects your account with a smartphone to ask for authorization for new logins by push notifications.

A Account Key it is considered more secure than passwords because, once it is enabled, even if someone manages to access the access information, they will still not be able to log in as it depends on authorization via mobile device. O Yahoo also states that the novelty solves other password problems, preventing you from forgetting it, for example.

This is just one of the new features of Yahoo Mail, which has also gained a more powerful search engine, is lighter and is able to manage multiple service accounts at the same time, like Outlook, Hotmail and AOL (for now, Gmail is left out).

All registered accounts will have access to the resources of the Yahoo Mail, such as searching, managing contacts and writing suggestions. This functionality has been rolled out globally to the app for Android e iOS and the web interface is only available in the US.

The developers paid special attention to app look. It is possible to sync with Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook to view the photos of your contacts and those who do not have a profile picture will display one of the images selected from the Flickr.

Also added were “Contact Cards” which displays shared information such as name, company, title, email history, and even recent tweets. In addition search tool now organizes and separates exchanged messages, photos and attachments.

For those who often email themselves as sticky notes e to-do lists, just press and hold on the write a new email button to create a message with your name in the recipient field. On iOS, the feature can be used through 3D Touch.

The new application is elegant and centralizes a lot of needs for those who use email a lot; the only thing missing was the interaction with the main service: Gmail. Yahoo Mail is now available for iOS e Android.