I use email for everything and have lots of folders. But it’s was to figure out how to create a subfolder in Yahoo mail. I know, I know the first thing is to stop using Yahoo, but I’ve been using it since ’98 and my attempts to change have been painful…
Create A Subfolder in Yahoo Mail
I have tons of folder and at one point used Apple’s Mail client and organized my folders with subfolders. I went back to Yahoo’s web client but you can’t create subfolders that way.
Create a new Subfolder via the iOS Mail App…
In the iOS Mail app you can tap the Edit button and a button will appear at the bottom right for ‘New Mailbox’.
Tap ‘New Mailbox‘, enter a name and tap on the entry for ‘MAILBOX LOCATION‘ to specify the parent folder!
If you already have a folder or create one via Yahoo…
You can create a new folder in Yahoo, but you can’t make it a subfolder. So if you first create the subfolder in the Yahoo client…
Here’s how to move it to be a subfolder via the iOS Mail app…
- Go into your folder list in the Mail app
- Tap Edit (top right)
- Scroll down to your folders (if you’re at the top)
- Tap on the folder you want to move
- Tap on the entry under “MAILBOX LOCATION” and select the new parent folder.
- Then tap Save and Done.
