Manage contact auto suggestions in Yahoo Mail

Auto suggest saves you time and hassle by filling in email addresses for you. Enter part of someone's name or email in the address fields and get a list of relevant contacts and suggestions to include, based on how often you interact. Hide contact suggestions as needed.

Order of auto suggestions

The contact auto suggestions that you receive are based on your interactions with those contacts and sorted in the following order.

  • At the top - Contacts that you've interacted with the most will be displayed first, followed by contacts with fewer interactions (sent emails). This is not in alphabetical order.
  • In Between - Contacts with no interactions will be displayed in alphabetical order.
  • At the bottom - Contact lists will be displayed in alphabetical order.

Hide or restore contact auto suggestions

Hide unwanted suggestions in order to improve the accuracy of your suggestions. Hiding a contact suggestion will not remove the contact from your address book.

  1. Click Compose.
  2. Begin entering an email address or contact in the To field.
  3. When the unwanted contact appears, mouse over it and click X.

Restore hidden contacts back to auto suggestions

  1. Click Compose.
  2. Manually type the email address you want to restore into the address field. (Don’t select it from the address book or contact list).
  3. Complete your email with a subject and message.
  4. Click Send.

  The restored contact - will appear in future auto suggestions once the steps above are completed.