yahoo mail problems

flutered

i have yahoo mail on my laptop and an old fone, the old fone has beed dumped, when i try to get the yahoo app on my new fone it tells me i have it in my old fone, how do i get around this, thanks in advance

smuggler.ie

Is this authentication (aka MFA, 2FA) you talking about?

Ten Pin

Within the yahoo web mail (via browser) interface there should be an option to revoke access to the old phone, although it may not be necessary to do this unless it's a strict yahoo limitation or just to prevent someone else accessing your emails on the old phone.

To get access on the new phone you could try a client such as Gmail which can access any IMAP enabled email server, in this case yahoo mail.

You'll need to generate an App Password from within Yahoo's webmail interface to allow this to work, the normal password won't work for 3rd party apps such as Gmail.