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

Anonymous
2022-06-26T18:40:47+00:00

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!

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-28T15:45:59+00:00

    Thanks to this and Choices Books, I got there in the end, what worked for me was to logon to my yahoo account settings on Safari on my phone and that allowed me to generate an app password whereas I couldn’t get it to happen on Chrome on my PC at all. Strange. I have now got yahoo set back up on my Outlook.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-28T16:41:17+00:00

    Thanks to this and Choices Books, I got there in the end, what worked for me was to logon to my yahoo account settings on Safari on my phone and that allowed me to generate an app password whereas I couldn’t get it to happen on Chrome on my PC at all. Strange. I have now got yahoo set back up on my Outlook.

    Weirdly enough I did before in my iPhone and it was a no go. Relly frustrating. Nobody seems to know the real solution.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-30T16:57:09+00:00

    I'm not sure there is a real solution, as I believe Yahoo doesn't want to make the email accessible outside of their fee generating ad environment, OR, perhaps outside of a two step verification (although that already happens when you have to generate the new password).

    I've tried 3 different browsers, my Android phone, and trying to get the password from Windows Mail in my Surface RT. No luck.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-11T07:35:22+00:00

    Even i am trying to configure my personal yahoo mail in outlook2010, but facing the same issue.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-11T12:02:16+00:00

    Hi, are you using the “new outlook “view? I had so many problems generating the pass code on the old view, which I really do prefer. But because of the password issue, I had to switch to the new look of Outlook version. And now I no longer have the password issue as often, and when I do get the pop-up to enter my password, I am able to generate it on the Yahoo website. Try that.

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