The Yahoo team has finally released a version of their popular IM client for iPhone users, using this new application you can chat with your friends through a iPhone or iPod touch ^[1] device.

This version of Yahoo Messenger ^[2] includes several features including;

• Ability to send instant messages, including emoticons and web links.
• Photo sharing to share photos from your iPhone.
• Stealth mode: Ability to sign in as invisible or change your status to invisible.
• Ability to set custom status messages.
• Ability to view recent chat conversation history.
• A special Idle state will keep you signed in to yahoo, if you make use of another application or attend to a phone call, however your status will be displayed as idle.
• Ability to customize settings to sort contact list or to show or hide offline contacts.

Yahoo Messenger for iPhone is a free application, you can download it from iTunes App Store, however you can also download the application directly by clicking on this link ^[3].

If you use Yahoo Messenger on the desktop don’t forget to check out some handy tips and tricks for Yahoo Messenger ^[4], we also have a list of shortcut keys for Yahoo Messenger ^[5].

Yahoo Messenger for iPhone is here ^[6] [Official Yahoo Messenger Blog]