- To sign out of yahoo mail in a web browser, just click your profile picture.
- if you’re using the yahoo mail app on your smartphone or tablet, you can sign out using the “manage accounts” link in your account settings.
- If you are the only person with access to your computer or mobile device, you usually never need to sign out of your yahoo mail account.
As a general rule, you don’t need to log out of online services like yahoo mail if you’re using it on your personal computer.
but if you need to access yahoo on a public computer or someone else’s computer, you’ll want to sign out when you’re done to make sure no one else can access your personal information.
here’s how to do it in a web browser on your mac or pc, and the mobile app on your iphone or android.
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how to sign out of yahoo mail on a computer
1. on the yahoo mail web page in any browser, click your account profile picture at the top right of the page. you should see a dropdown menu appear.
2. click “log out”.
3. on the account management page, click “sign out” for each account you want to sign out of (if you have more than one account). You can also log out of all your accounts at once by selecting that option.
how to sign out of yahoo mail using the mobile app
1. In the yahoo mail app for ios or android, tap your account’s profile picture at the top left of the screen.
2. in the menu that opens, tap “manage accounts”.
3. “Deactivate” the account you wish to log out of by sliding the button to the left. when you return to the app, you will find that you have been logged out.
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