Bosses at Yahoo Mail have responded to offended customers following a mass crash yesterday – and have issued pressing directions to comply with.
DownDetector, which displays outages throughout the globe, noticed a spike in experiences for Yahoo Mail late on yesterday afternoon (February 27). Around 8,000 outages have been reported with extra customers airing their frustrations with each the Android and iOS model of the app.
Speaking on Down Detector’s discussion board pages, one consumer named Kim mentioned: “Been trying for an hour just keeps flipping me out say there is an app bug. Yahoo sort this out please it’s really annoying.”
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Other customers frightened their accounts had been hacked given the frequent crashes, taking to Twitter/X and airing their considerations. One consumer wrote: “What is happening to Yahoo mail app. It keeps crashing. Hope I haven’t been hacked.”
A map exhibiting the hotspots of the UK outage confirmed most experiences have been coming from London, Manchester, Cardiff and Glasgow. Other patches for the app outage have been seen in Birmingham, Nottingham and Belfast.
And now Yahoo has heard the offended cries, and has issued an pressing message with directions.
For these on Android, they recommend:
Long press the app icon.
Click the data icon on the highest proper nook to open the app settings.
Scroll right down to the utilization part and storage row, and open it.
Clear cache and clear information.
Reopen the app and it ought to work as traditional.
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And for iOS customers:
Close any current session of the Yahoo app.
Open the Settings app in your iOS Device.
Search for the Yahoo App, and click on on it.
Scrolling to the underside, it’s best to see a toggle button known as “Reset All Accounts”.
Toggle on the button and relaunch the app. (You could also be requested to login once more)
This seems to work for some folks, though when instructed on Twitter/X that others weren’t having a lot pleasure, Yahoo suggested to “wait 24 hours” and take a look at once more.
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