How to disable Google News

At the suggestion of some friends, you have installed the Google News app on your smartphone, the Google service that aggregates news from the main online newspapers. Recently, however, you have noticed that you use this app less and less and so you have thought about getting rid of it. If this is the case, let me give you a hand to do it without any difficulty.

In the guide you are about to read, in fact, I can show you how to disable Google News in a few simple steps. I already anticipate that you can do it simply by deactivating the notifications coming from the application or by performing its complete uninstallation. In both cases, I can guarantee you that the operations you will be called to perform will be really simple to implement.

So, are you ready to get started? Yup? Great! Make yourself comfortable, take all the time you need to concentrate on reading the next lines and, more importantly, try to implement the instructions I will give you. I am convinced that, if you follow my “tips” carefully and scrupulously, you will have no problems in completing your technological “enterprise” today. Enjoy the reading!

Index

• How to disable Google News on Android
  • Disable notifications
  • Uninstall the app
• How to disable Google News on iOS
  • Disable notifications
  • Uninstall the app

How to disable Google News on Android

As I anticipated at the beginning of the article, if you intend to disable Google News on your Android device, you have two “ways” to go: the first, the less “drastic” one, is to disable notifications from Google News. The second, however, is to completely uninstall the app from the device. In the next paragraphs you will find detailed how to proceed in both cases.

Disable notifications

If you simply want to disable the notifications coming from the Google News app for Android, all you have to do is go to the settings of your device and select the option that allows you to disable the reception of notifications from the latter.

To begin with, start the Settings app by pressing the gear icon located on the Home screen of your smartphone or tablet, or in the drawer (the screen that groups all the installed apps). Then tap on the item Notifications or Audio and notifications, select the item Applications or Apps from the screen that opens, wait for all the apps installed on your device to load, locate the Google News icon and press on it.

On the next screen, locate the Lock item and move the switch lever next to it to ON, so as not to show any notification from Google News. If you want to receive Google News notifications silently, instead, instead of carrying out the operation described above, you have to move the switch lever next to the word Show silently to ON.

Note: Due to the “fragmentation” that characterizes Android (ie the existence of numerous versions of the Google operating system), it may be that some wordings and passages are slightly different on your device.

Uninstall the app

If you want to resort to more “drastic” solutions, you can disable Google News by completely uninstalling its app . Again, to do this, all you have to do is go to the settings of your smartphone or tablet and proceed from there.

To begin with, therefore, start the  Android Settings app by pressing the gear icon located on the Home screen or in the drawer (the screen that groups all the applications installed on the device), select the Applications item from the menu that is opens and, if necessary, presses the All  (or All applications ) tab at the top.

At this point, select the name of the application you want to uninstall, that is Google News, tap the Uninstall button on the Application information screen and confirm the operation by answering  OK to the question Do you want to uninstall this application?

Alternatively, if you have installed and activated an alternative launcher on your terminal (such as the famous  Nova Launcher ), you can be able to uninstall Google News in an even easier way: you simply have to go to the drawer, keep your finger pressed for a few seconds on the icon of Google News, drag its icon onto the dustbin that appears in the upper left corner and confirm the uninstallation by pressing the OK button.

If you need further explanations on how to uninstall apps on Android, do not hesitate to take a look at the guide that I have linked to you, because it will surely be very useful.

How to disable Google News on iOS

If you want to know how to disable Google News on iOS, then on an iPhone or an iPad, know that you have to follow more or less the same instructions I gave you in the chapter of the guide dedicated to Android, or disable notifications from Google News or, if you prefer, uninstall its app from your device: let me explain both procedures in detail.

Disable notifications

To disable Google News notifications on iPhone and iPad, you need to go to the iOS settings and select the options you prefer regarding the latter, so as to completely disable or silence them.

To proceed, therefore, start the iOS Settings app by tapping on the gray icon depicting the gears on the Home screen of the device, then tap on the Notifications item and, in the screen that opens, locate the Google News item and then press it on.

To disable all notifications from the Google News app, move the switch next to Allow notifications (located at the top) to OFF. If, on the other hand, you want to disable only the notification sounds, move the switch next to the word Sounds to OFF.

Uninstall the app

If you want to uninstall the Google News app on iOS, know that you can do it by acting both from the home screen of your device and from the operating system settings. Find everything explained in detail right below.

If you want to act from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad, locate the Google News app icon in the latter and make a long tap on it. After a few seconds, the icons of all the applications installed on the terminal should start to “dance”, indicating that you can remove them or move them around the Home screen.

To delete the Google News app, simply tap on the  (x)  which is located in the upper left corner of its icon and then answer Delete to the question Do you want to remove “Google News”?

To uninstall the Google News app from the iOS settings  (an operation that allows you to choose whether or not to keep the app data), go instead to the iOS Settings and tap on the  General>  iPhone free space / iPad free space items. (depending on the device in use).

Now, wait for the complete list of applications installed on the device to load, locate the Google News icon and tap on it. Then, to uninstall it, select the Uninstall app item on the screen that opened and confirm your intentions by pressing  Uninstall app again. By doing so, you will have uninstalled the app, freeing up space on your device and at the same time keeping the data and documents related to it.

If, on the other hand, you want to permanently delete the Google News app and the data related to it, select the Delete app item and then confirm your choice by tapping on the Delete app item. Easy, right?

If you are interested in having some additional information on how to uninstall apps on iPhone and iPad, take a look at the insights I linked to you: I’m sure these readings will also be useful for you.

 

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