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

Hey ezpar44

I know I'm late to this thread but I was having the same issue you were and may have found the workaround. Yahoo must have changed something on their end and it ended up breaking how my bellsouth email plays with my mail app so I've been digging for this password generator and like you it doesn't appear on the yahoo site like it says it's supposed to. As a side note for those who don't know, Bellsouth was an old telecom company that ended up being bought out by AT&T in the early '00s. Their email addresses were taken over fully by AT&T and supposedly then by Yahoo, hence trying to find this password generator through yahoo.

Even though bellsouth emails should be yahoo now, I actually found this password generator deep in the account settings on the att.com site. Below is how I get to them:

1. Go to att.com
2. Sign in using bellsouth account (or other if your bellsouth account is linked to another name?)
3. Under the "My AT&T" dropdown in the top-right, select "Go to my account"
4. Under the "Welcome Back", select "See Profile"
5. Scroll down to "My Linked Accounts" and under the bellsouth email account select "Manage Secure Mail Key"
6. From there, click "Add a secure mail key", give it a nickname, and use it to login with your email software of choice.

I would recommend looking up yahoo's imap instructions and setting up your mail app manually since if an auto setup gets something wrong I think you have to delete the key and make another one. I put a picture below of where this setting is and it's url but if the steps above are confusing I can make a more detailed step-by-step with pictures of how I get there.

Hope this helps

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

Thank you much for the pointing me in the right direction.

I was struggling for that last couple of days with the inability to generate app passwords at yahoo.com. I was using Edge. When I finally went to Chrome all worked as expected.

Thanks to Choices Books and Gifts and Harborview Marina. After seeing their messages, I was able to resolve this issue as described below.

In setting up my new laptop, I have struggled with this exact issue for a whole day in vain. When every attempt failed, I even set up forwarding of all my email from yahoo accounts to gmail accounts, etc. After reading CB and HM's messages, as I had been using Chrome the whole time dealing with this issue, I tried switching to Edge, which was pretty much a vrigin at that time. Then Yahoo did generate a new app password for Outlook that worked.

Lessons learned (from hind sight):

a. Don't bother to delete the old app password for Outlook and create a new one. There is a way for you to find the one that has been working for Outlook. Just copy and continue to use it.

b. If you already deleted the app password that has been working for Outlook, the app password will not work anymore. If you find that Yahoo can not generate a new one for you, you may try using a different browser or clean up your browser's cookies/histories in order for Yahoo to regenerate a new one for you.

Hope this helps.