How do I hide the new sidebar in the news app iOS 12

I can’t get News on my iPad to display in portrait mode. Any idea how to fix that? A setting maybe? Thanks.

We need a way to hide the sidebar in landscape mode.

It's an irritating change. I'm very annoyed that I have had a choice in the matter removed. And the back gesture is also annoying. I want the previous version!

The SIDEBAR needs an option to HIDE.

Agree, the sidebar is terrible. How this got past the design cops at Apple beggers belief. Quick Apple, put that update out ASAP. I’ll be getting my news elsewhere in the meantime.

Hopefully today's first ios12 update will address this dumb oversight

If this turns out to be a bug, Apple may just not had enough time to correct this.

This update is not a full point release. This is a very small, minor update release.

First of all, no need to YELL. Secondly, I had already submitted feedback to Apple prior to posting here. Thanks for the helpful user to user support.

I agree this is a big pain

Thanks for the link. I submitted feedback that I’ve switched to Google News till they fix this problem.

It is probably NOT a bug.

Works very similarly to the way iOS Mail works.

It is what it is.

Apple— please allow me to hide this sidebar, when holding the iPad horizontally. Just because you can change something does not necessarily mean that it is a good change or should be done.

How do I remove IOS 12 from my iPad Pro? The sidebar on News is ridiculously absurd and can’t be hidden. Boo!

Unfortunately, if you’ve updated your iPad to iOS 12/12.0.1/12.1, now that Apple have stopped signing iOS 11.4.1 you can‘t restore an earlier version of iOS.

Agree totally unusable