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Android: Enable or Disable Google Feed

October 8, 2017 by Mitch Bartlett 48 Comments

The Google Feed (formerly known as Google Now) feature on the Android devices is considered great by some users, and annoying by others. Some people live by their Google Feed cards, while others find them annoying and intrusive. Here’s how to turn the feature on or off.

  1. From the Home screen, tap “Apps“.
  2. Choose “Google“.
  3. Tap the “Menu” button in the upper-left corner.
  4. Select “Settings“.
  5. Choose “Your feed“.
  6. Set the settings on the screen as deisred:
    • The “Notifications” setting controls whether or not updates display in the notification area. Set it to “On” or “Off” as desired. You can also set a Ringtone or Vibrate option on urgent updates.
    • The “Feed” setting turns the entire Google Now feature on and off. When selected, you can also choose to delete your Google Feed preferences and disable Google Feed on all the devices tied to your account.

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  1. BC says

    April 17, 2023 at 1:51 pm

    I can’t find any part of any of the instructions. I’d like to remove this stupid nonsense for good.

  2. pbasch says

    December 18, 2022 at 12:35 pm

    Thanks for the tip. Google app>profile picture>Settings>General>Discover, and turn off Discover. So glad to get rid of that. What passes for “news”, my god. It’s all celebrities and/or bad behavior. SO don’t need that.

  3. Mayank Parashar says

    November 18, 2022 at 12:48 am

    Hey guys so to remove the news feed or add the news feed. Go to Google then click on your profile photo on the top right. Then click Settings -> General. In this Discover is the news feed. You can toggle it on or off according to your desire. Hope it helps.

  4. Crowharp says

    October 27, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    When was this article even written?
    I’m on Android 12, Pixel 6Pro, and there *is* no menu button in the upper left corner…or anywhere else, for that matter.
    I want this distracting doom feed off my phone.

  5. Keith says

    October 5, 2022 at 6:56 am

    You lost me at ” From the Home Screen, tap Apps”.

  6. vasos says

    August 21, 2022 at 3:56 am

    I don;t know if this is what you are talking about: :
    • Google app
    • Settings
    • General
    • Discover -off

  7. Josh Finkler says

    May 27, 2022 at 5:11 pm

    Ezra nailed it, worked on my Android 10 phone just right!

    —–

    June 6, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Long press on the background, of the home screen as to change the wallpapers, select Home Settings, select Swipe Access [for left swipe screen], select Nothing to deselect Google feed,
    That’s it for Android 10 users!

  8. Fred Kirchner says

    February 5, 2022 at 9:31 am

    i TI just now stumbled on the solution. I got the newest version of Google (Android 10) I think. Find “Home Settings”.. Then click on “Swipe Access”.. Then pick choice “Nothing”. RESULT: Nothing is displayed tothe left of the home screen. Meaning that the annoying “Feed” has vanished.

  9. Fred Kirchner says

    February 5, 2022 at 9:16 am

    The trouble with GOOGLE SEARCH, they never provide a date for every webpage they show you. So this particular page by Mitch Bartlett could be 5 years old and completely obsolete. Google probably has eliminated “Google Feed” years ago from their app. That is why in 2021 nobody can find it.
    PROBABLY 90% OF WHAT YOU GET ON GOOGLE SEARCH IS OUTDATED OR OBSOLETE.

  10. Hal Stanley Staples says

    December 14, 2021 at 2:31 pm

    Why the runn around getting googlenews back on !!!

  11. Raghunathan P says

    October 30, 2021 at 10:18 am

    Where is my News Feed? Your suggestion to look for Apps on home screen is meaningless, as there is no Apps to click. I tried Google collection>Google>settings but couldn’t locate news feed to switch on or off.

  12. john smith says

    October 16, 2021 at 10:24 am

    nope, you have no clue what you’re talking about. I don’t have “your feed” in my settings when I open chrome on my phone.

  13. John Bovenzi says

    July 28, 2021 at 2:36 pm

    Ezra got it right… Thank you!!

  14. Rob says

    July 12, 2021 at 5:24 am

    On respond your need to activate smart assistant! Dove me nuts…

  15. M.L.K says

    April 5, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    On mobile device open Chrome

    Menu > Settings > Downloads > Slide-to-off Download article for you on Wi-Fi

    This should works!

  16. Kapil says

    February 15, 2021 at 11:02 am

    Can’t find apps option

  17. Patrice Washington says

    November 17, 2020 at 11:29 am

    Why has daily Google newsreel been replaced by useless words or phrases.

  18. Eugene Moore says

    October 22, 2020 at 8:23 am

    Some news is ok but don’t clutter peoples device’s up with it that’s the reason I am thinking about getting rid of my internet service people don’t need these things anyway

  19. Hercules says

    July 31, 2020 at 3:19 am

    I can’t find my feed option. Help please

  20. Dillon Locke says

    July 28, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    Can’t find “your feed” on LG Stylo 5

  21. Andrew says

    July 1, 2020 at 4:45 am

    I have done all that and still blank

  22. Ezra says

    June 6, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Long press on the background, of the home screen as to change the wallpapers, select Home Settings, select Swipe Access [for left swipe screen], select Nothing to deselect Google feed,
    That’s it for Android 10 users!

  23. Deb says

    November 6, 2019 at 8:21 am

    Unable to find the “your feed” option.

  24. Lakesider says

    November 2, 2019 at 10:29 am

    Thank you David W April 4, 2018 at 1:06 pm
    This actually worked!

    Google is the biggest, most malevolent Trojan horse in history!!

  25. Kiarie Ngigi says

    June 7, 2019 at 12:04 pm

    Samsung??

  26. NM Buday says

    April 11, 2019 at 4:04 am

    Don’t know what happened to the news feed on my homepage just disappeared how do I get it back I miss it it’s part of my morning reading..,?

  27. Mc says

    March 26, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    How to set up Google news feed on the left side of the phone?

  28. jack brown says

    March 22, 2019 at 4:21 pm

    Just got a new phone. It’s got news , more news and nothing but the news. I can’t make a phone call, get to the home screen, or settings

  29. Narrative13 says

    February 20, 2019 at 6:23 pm

    Go Settings then to Display then to Home Screen. Then scroll down to “left home screen” and disable AppFlash. That will remove far left screen that news feed. Cheers

  30. HH says

    January 10, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    pixel:

    1. swipe left and click hamburger
    2. click settings
    3. discover
    4. turn off discover and turn on data saver for discover

    try to refresh discover by swiping left and then swiping up (refreshing).

  31. Ali raza says

    January 9, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    Won’t work on my phone. I tap Google settings . My feed and the Google app stops . No option to do anything please help me I want to enable it…

  32. Fabian Brewster says

    October 11, 2018 at 5:54 am

    I’m using this google news feed on my android phone successfully. I now wish to install this on my Windows 10 laptop using the same news feeds previously selected. Please advise how?

  33. Moe says

    May 10, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    Easy to remove it, go to google app on the app store or use this link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox click uninstall, this will uninstall the latest update and revert to stock app. While on the app page click on the three dots on top right to disable auto update for this app. Now feed will be gone or just go to settings and disable feed.

  34. John says

    April 7, 2018 at 1:44 am

    Won’t work on my phone. I tap Google settings . My feed and the Google app stops . No option to do anything

  35. David W says

    April 4, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    r below is right! It’s very easy to turn off. Like he said, long press on a home screen to pull up the launcher to change your wallpaper and add widgets. On the bottom right is a button for “Home Settings”. There you can turn off “Display Google App”.

    BAM! Your fully customized annoying feed of clickbait is gone!!

  36. David says

    April 3, 2018 at 10:23 am

    ‘Signing out’ from the Google app turns off the feed page. You just have to find out where… It’s not obvious.

    Settings > Accounts and privacy
    Touch ‘Google account’

    This launches the sign-out pop-up

    Select ‘Sign out’

  37. r says

    February 8, 2018 at 3:21 pm

    press over the wallpaper
    then it appears wallpaper, widgets, transitions and settings
    click on settings
    disable google feed

    good luck!

  38. masteratt says

    February 7, 2018 at 11:08 am

    Google please, this Feed screen on the far left that doesn’t want to seem to go away (even when I toggle off “Your Feed”) is just an unbelivable daft “feature”.
    No good has come to any company by forcing things down customer’s throats. Maybe in short term, but I am now considering alternate launchers or a different phone for my next upgrade.

    Give us a simple option to get rid of that forced far left Feed screen.

  39. mischa says

    December 17, 2017 at 9:30 am

    I went to (phone) settings, then applications, then application manager, then google icon, then unclicked box next to “notifications” (as well as clered cache and cleared storage under ‘manage storage’) on a samsung android. This is an annoying unwanted feature they automatically added without knowledge.

  40. Mike says

    December 12, 2017 at 8:20 am

    I posted below regarding deleting updates for the Google App to bring back the switch to disable the feed. Alas, about 24 hours after allowing the Google App to update, it seems to have re-enabled itself.

  41. Mike says

    December 11, 2017 at 11:19 am

    I had this issue on my Nexus 5X. I didn’t have the option to disable the Feed even though I had seen the switch previously. I think a more recent Google App update disabled the switch. I was able to get rid of the feed by: removing all app updates for the Google App (this set me back to v6.something). Now I can see the switch and disable the feed. I hesitated with updating the Google App for two months, but finally allowed it to update. Luckily, the feed is still disabled for me, so this may work for others.

    Also, is this just a “feature” of the Google Now Launcher? If so, perhaps just switching to an alternate launcher could work for some people.

  42. Bob says

    December 5, 2017 at 7:14 am

    The option to disable google now cards feed has been removed (!) so what worked was signing out of the Google app. Here’s how:

    Open Google app
    Tap sandwich bar then Settings
    Tap Accounts and Privacy
    At the top, tap your Google account which is probably listed and then sign out

  43. RA says

    December 1, 2017 at 1:24 am

    Mine will no longer allow mebto simply turn off my feed. I got rid of it my going to settings, apps, google, clear search data. It is gone now!

  44. Katrina says

    October 22, 2017 at 7:57 am

    On my android, next to the disable feed option, there is an actual note that says you can’t disable the feed on newer versions of the google search app. I just got rid of the app as best I could (disable). The feed is really annoying.

  45. Filippo says

    October 18, 2017 at 8:48 am

    me too I still have Feed page on screen left. And I don’t want it!

  46. Christine says

    October 15, 2017 at 5:58 pm

    This will stop it:
    Tap on google bar
    Press the Google icon until three lines show up
    Tap the three lines
    Tap settings
    Tap autocomplete
    Turn off
    Feed disappears

  47. Mitch Bartlett says

    October 13, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    Is it a widget? Can you tap and hold it to move it to trash?

  48. Riemer says

    October 13, 2017 at 6:41 pm

    I still got a Feed page on the left of my home screen. How do I disable this completely? Buying an iPhone?

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