HOW TO Generate a YAHOO APP PASSWORD - standard instructions NOT WORKING!!

I have recently encountered this problem when I upgraded my PC.

Generating And Managing App Passwords is well documented online. The problem is that When requested to enter the App name Yahoo responds with “sorry this feature is unavailable” rather than a drop down list of Apps from which to select.

I had thought of forwarding my Yahoo mail to another mail address but forwarding is ghosted and not available.

Yahoo support were equally unhelpful for 10 minutes until I was cut off. I should at this point mention that I do not subscribe to Yahoo Pro.

Today I did upgrade and was able to forward mail and Generate App passwords.

The subscription was active for less than 30 minutes. The Cancellation location is not easy to locate either but Yahoo do provide this in their welcome to Yahoo Pro email.

It seems to be IMPOSSIBLE to generate an APP PASSWORD in order to set up Yahoo Mail in Outlook. I have found all the instructions online but I do NOT find the said options in my Yahoo email account or in My Microsoft account?

I cannot find any clickable command for "generate app password"...i FIND EVERY OTHER OPTION. But Not app password!!

ANy help much appreciated. I seem to have lost my bellsouth email in my outlook!! what a nightmare!

Hi, This just started happening and i couldn't resolve. so i called

Yahoo Help. 800-361-5610.  I had to pay for "tech support" -$12.99 per month, with free mcAfee and some other services. You can cancel anytime. They will remote into your computer and fix the issue...but here is what they did.

Go to yahoo.com;  go to account security, generate passwords.  Delete all the old “outlook desktop” passwords that were previously generated (or whichever app you use other than Outlook Desktop.)

Once deleted, Go to Chrome , the drop will have “clear browsing data”, select that.   Clear - cached images and files; browsing data and and cookies. 

Then Close yahoo/chrome.  Restart computer. Then log back into Chrome, and your yahoo mail. Go back to generate passwords and get a new password.  

Use that same password over and over until it doesn’t work.  If you need a new one, delete the old passwords first before you generate a new one. That worked for me today and now my outlook is up and running and receiving all my yahoo mails again. I hope that helps. Thanks, Lisa

Response from Yahoo.....

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Yahoo Customer Care

I'm sorry to hear that you are unable to generate app passwords. 

We're very sorry app passwords are unavailable for your account. We don't have an exact ETA on when this will return, but we encourage you to check back in the near future. Rest assured, you can still access your mail from the Yahoo Mail app or via a web browser. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. 

Should you need additional assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us.  

Regards,

Ronald
Yahoo Customer Care

....but apparently I'm doing it wrong?? Yeah.....

I wish I had seen this post before.

I had one computer that still was downloading to outlook with an app password generated about 18 months ago. I was trying to setup a new computer and deleted the existing Outlook Desktop app password from Yahoo security.

Now I have lost the download ability to both the old and new computers and all I get is that this feature is not available.

I agree do not follow this advice - if you have an existing app password, keep it there. At least you might have one outlook that still works.

So completely frustrated right now.

I'm somehow glad to see that I'm not the only one having this issue. I tried everything that's mentioned here. Nothing worked. Only thing I managed to do is to link my yahoo account to Outlook on Android. It doesn't sync to my desktop outlook though...

I also have to say that over the last years yahoo turned more and more into a nightmare when it comes to syncing. Probably the best thing to do is to switch to a different provider. At least I'll do that step by step. The fact that other email accounts are way easier to add to Outlook speaks for itself.