Change Yahoo Mail password (Yahoo Mail Beta 2010/2011)
When you try the new Yahoo Mail Beta 2010 / 2011, you will see plenty of innovation and changes to the old, familiar Yahoo Mail experience when checking your emails. Fortunately, Yahoo! has gone out of its way to at the same time bring new features to the service, but also keep it easy enough for existing users to transition to (in most cases, the beta email programs will see all or most of their new features make it to the final version of the new product). As you'll see, it is quite easy and similar to both the All-New Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail Classic to change your password in Yahoo Mail Beta 2010 / 2011.
Tip: if you forgot how to login, see how you can reset your Yahoo password!
How do I change my Yahoo Mail Beta password?
This is how you will go about changing your password in Yahoo Mail Beta:
- Once you are logged in to your email account, and looking at your inbox or another email folder, look in the top left corner of the screen for the Yahoo Mail greeting that includes your name, and displays a down arrow next to it, and click on it as shown below:
- Choose "Account" from that dropdown menu. This will open a new window (make sure that your popup blocker allows that window to open), and ask to enter your current password: this is to protect your account from unauthorized changes. Type your current Yahoo Mail password inside the text field and then click on "Sign in".
- As soon as you do, you will see your Yahoo Account Info screen load: unlike most other features in the Yahoo Mail Beta 2010 / 2011, this screen is actually exactly the same that allows you to change your password for Yahoo Mail Classic or the current version of Yahoo Mail. Locate the section labeled "Sign-In and Security", and click on "Change your password".
- As a side note, changing your Yahoo Mail Beta password will make the change apply to any version of the webmail service - in other words, even if you switch back to the current version of Yahoo Mail, or even Yahoo Mail Classic, your new password will still be valid (and also affect any other online service that uses your Yahoo Mail email address / password as credentials).
- You will now see the "Change your Yahoo! password" screen (pictured below).
- Again for the security of your account, you will need to enter your current Yahoo Mail password inside the first field, and then type twice the new password you want to use. (The reason for having to enter twice the password to which you want to change your account is simply to avoid mistakenly mistyping the new password.)
- Once you have confirmed your current password and entered twice the new one, click on the "Save" button: this will apply the new setting right away. As soon as you receive the "Password successfully changed" confirmation screen, you know that you are ready to go.
Tip: now that you have successfully changed your Yahoo Mail password, remember that you will need to start using it immediately for all services that use your Yahoo credentials (email address and password) to login. To discover all the features this webmail service has to offer, visit our Yahoo Mail Tutorial.
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