Go to the Yahoo account recovery page and follow the on-screen instructions. In the Email address or phone number field, type your Yahoo mail address, then choose Continue. Select a verification technique Enter the verification code that you received by text or email.

If you don’t make a strategy for your Yahoo account and no one hacks into it, it will be deleted after one year of inactivity. If you don’t want anyone to have access to your email account and you believe no one will try to access it, this “do nothing” approach might work.

Visit the Login page for Yahoo and type in your email address. Then click on Next” while it requests your password, and select the Forgot My Password” option. It will attempt to match the missing digits of your phone number, so choose the “No, I don’t know the Digits option.

Select “Restore Opt-Out Information” from the drop-down menu. If you didn’t do anything else, go ahead and click on the “Unsubscribe” button. Then go to your spam folder and delete any emails with subject lines that include keywords related to your choice of language. After that?

After a six-month period has elapsed since the last time the account owner logged in, a Yahoo account is labeled inactive and deactivated. Every year that an account has been active, two more months are added to this duration.