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'What is Flipboard Briefing?': How to use or disable the social news app's personal magazine feature on Android

Written by Steven John
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Samsung phone users can view Flipboard Briefing from their home screens. Flipboard
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Flipboard Briefing is a one-stop app for all the latest news, event info, shopping and restaurant options, weather forecasts, stock prices, and more. With a polished, magazine-style layout, you can flip through the day's biggest news after a quick swipe to the right or left on your home screen. Briefing offers users a personalized summary of the latest national and local headlines that matter most to you — not some algorithm. 

Thanks to the more than 30,000 topics on the app, the more you read Briefing, the more customized it becomes, delivering you the day's "Top Stories" and more tied to your interests and location. The latest version even lets you search and follow topics, comment, share, or mute specific sources you don't want to see or read. 

Unlike the regular Flipboard app, Briefing is only available to Samsung phone and tablet users. If you have a newer phone, then Flipboard Briefing probably came pre-installed, but it also might be rolled in with Bixby, your phone's AI, personal assistant. Because of this, it will automatically update every time your phone performs an update. Unfortunately, you can't uninstall it, but the "system app" can be disabled if you're not feeling it.

If your Briefing app isn't appearing on your phone or you want to disable it, here's how to do it. 

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How to disable Flipboard Briefing on your Android device

1. Pinch your home screen to zoom out. 

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This will bring up all your home screens in a slider-like format.  Steven John/Business Insider

2. Swipe right. 

3. Uncheck the Flipboard Briefing box at the top. If the Briefing panel fades, it has been disabled.

How to view the Flipboard Briefing app on your Android device without Bixby

1. Pinch your home screen to zoom out. 

2. Locate the Briefing app.

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Samsung users will have a screen devoted to the latest headlines courtesy of Flipboard Briefing.  Flipboard

3. Activate the home screen shortcut.

How to view the Flipboard Briefing app on your Android device through Bixby

1. Open Bixby.  

2. Tap the Bixby menu icon. You can find these three vertical lines in the upper right. 

3. Select "Settings" from the dropdown.

4. Choose "Cards." 

5. Activate "Briefing."

 

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Steven John has been a freelance writer for more than a dozen years and has been a regular contributor to Business Insider since 2017. His work includes a focus on the tech world, covering companies including Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others. He also reviews restaurants, shares how-to cooking articles, and writes general interest pieces.Steven also writes for publications including Architectural Digest, The Daily Beast, Forbes, and more. In the past, he also wrote for New York Magazine, Mashed, U.S. News & World Report and other outlets. He runs his own outdoor lifestyle site, Dad Gear Review, and co-hosts the Fact Trekkers podcast with his son. He has had two novels published, Three A.M. and Outrider. He graduated from Emerson College with a degree in communications focused on filmmaking.He is an avid outdoorsman and can be frequently found in a kayak or on a mountain trail, often with his family along for the adventure.Expertise:Tech industryTech hardwareOutdoorsCookingRestaurantsDIYPopular articles:Microsoft: A history of the software giant co-founded by Bill Gates, its products and services, jobs, layoffs, and moreYouTube is a major entertainment force. Here's the platform's history, plus how to create a channel and upload videos.Inside the life and career of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, billionaire, and philanthropistTim Cook net worth: How the Apple leader earns and spends his moneyBecoming an Amazon seller is a simple process. Here's what's involved, plus how you make money and get paid.

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