Does anyone know how I can disable the Apple news app in iOS 9? I see it's an apple app so I can't remove it. I would setle for disabling it so I'm not getting the feeds supplied to my front page with Siri and nearby suggestions. ThankS.
iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 9.0.2
stevostevo wrote:
Yeah the Apple news app is terrible. Regardless of what filters you choose you are fed an endless supply of left wing fake news from WaPo and NYT. Terrible.
Submit your feedback to Apple here:
Note that no one takes people seriously when they start applying silly terms like "fake news" to the country's paper of record.
Bobby Collins wrote:
Not in to thinking for yourself?
I'm probably more able to think for myself than most people. That's why I don't get sucked into the "fake news" hysteria. I don't need pundits of any stripe, or worse yet, politicians, to tell me what to think. I can (and do) read Fox News or the New York Times and gain valuable information from both. One of the greatest things about a good education is that it teaches you to critically evaluate source material.
I also know how to be civil. It allows me to have discussions with people who hold opinions radically different than mine without resorting to ad hominem attacks or puerile insults.
Once someone labels an entire group as evil, whether it's news outlets with which they disagree or people who belong to a different political party, they're demonstrating not that they can think for themselves but that they've lost perspective and are becoming part of a mob.
Since this thread was first started, Apple has made it possible to remove the News app from your phone:
However, if you want to be a well educated citizen, you'll keep reading news of all kinds.
Kilgore-Trout wrote:
Perhaps we have a market for an app that just confirms one's bias and filters out anything that might challenge the reader ... oh, wait ... Faux News and (not-so-bright) Breitbart already have apps.
This whole "fake news" thing frustrates me no end. The idea that newspapers have ever been objective or apolitical is nonsense only someone with a poor grounding in history could believe.
I make a special point of reading from sources that have a perspective I know I disagree with. Staying within one's own echo chamber is not the way to be a responsible citizen in a democracy. Mind you, I try to stick to sources that express their perspective respectfully, clearly and with a lack of ad hominem insulting. I expect that from all my news sources, of course.
Bobby Collins wrote:
That is the whole problem. The app does not allow you to select outside their clique.
My news feed has a range of sources from Breitbart to Mother Jones. I'd say that's reasonably wide ranging. Have you taken the time to adjust the app for your preferred echo chamber?
I would like to disable the News feed and am still unable to. I'm running 10.3.3 on a new iphone. I really just don't want to see any news article when I swipe left, but neither of these suggestions is accomplishing that:
Settings > General > Spotlight Search > Turn off "News"
per Zandy_Jay
Settings>Spotlight Search turn off Spotlight Suggestions.
per elquetzal
Furthermore, under Settings>News, I have every box unchecked. Please advise.
Settings > General > Spotlight Search > Turn off "News"
I tried that the other day and it's still showing up. I thought that would have turned it off too. It didn't work on either my iPhone or iPad. There must be a way to remove it or turn it off.
Settings>Spotlight Search turn off Spotlight Suggestions.
That worked. Its a couple more steps though. Its a combination of yours and Zandy_Jay's link above.
Settings > General > Spotlight Search > Turn of Spotlight suggestions instead of Turn off news.
Thank you both very much. It would be a good app accept I checked off conservative feeds. All it was sending me was liberal links.
Thank you both very much.
While it (and frankly no source) is going to divide everything into "Liberal" and "Conservative" you can control the source of articles that it pulls in: http://help.apple.com/iphone/9/#/iph0a16d1e29
I ran into the same problem. Thank you for asking this question. No matter what news or media sources I chose within the app the only articles I received were liberal garbage. It made the spotlight feature practically useless, and in total was not a good experience.
This is false. Even if you only select only apolitical tech and science sources the only thing that consistently displays are articles from msnbc, and other similar rags that all have a severe liberal bias.
MSNBC and other liberal news is still polluting my spotlight screen even after shutting the news down.
Maybe you should read a few, you might learn something. đ
When you get an article in the feed from a source that you do not wish have, open the article, tap the Share icon (upper right, box with an arrow), then select Mute Channel.
But if the only thing you are looking for is Fox News and Breitbart, you might want to stick to their apps.
It doesn't work. I select science and tech within the app, which is the "news" I would hope to see and get nothing but MSNBC, Huffington Post, etc... I find if I mute one source, several others pop up to replace it. I am not interested in politics.
Disable Apple News App?
