Multiple Ways to Stop Google News Notifications on Android Phone

If the frequent Google News feed notification popping up on your Android phone annoying you, there are multiple ways to stop it. While these push notifications let you access your Discover page and other Google app features (formerly called Google feed) quickly from the notification panel, it can be annoying at times.

If some of the Google News notifications are pointless to you, then here is how to stop it popping up on your phone. Every Android phone sold in the market (except in China) is come pre-installed with Google Apps. The app offers several necessary services and features a Discover page (former News feed).

You can access the Discover page by opening the app or with the swipe-right gesture (Google Pixel and Nexus phones). The notification can also be appear if you have installed Google News app. Google let you turn off the news notification appearing on your notification shade and lock screen.

There are multiple ways to do it – from Google app, from notification shade, Google Assistant and from the Google News app (if installed). You can also stop notification from a specific category as well, for example, sports, entertainment, stock, etc. Here’s how to disable Google News notifications on any Android phone running the latest version Google app.

How to Turn off Google App notifications?

First, open the Google app on your phone and click on ‘More’ (three horizontal dots) under the bottom right.

Go to Settings, click Notifications and under ‘Other’ turn off the categories from which you do not wish to get notifications.

That’s it. You will not get push notification from categories you turned off, such as stock, travel, jobs, etc.

How to disable notification from specific category?

Swipe down the notification shade, swipe left the notification halfway, and then click the gear icon.

You will see the category of that notification. Now, go to the Notifications settings in Google app and turn off the notification from that category.

Alternatively, turn off ‘Topics of interest’ from within the notifications shade to disable the alert.

How to Stop Google News app notifications?

If the notifications are coming from the Google News app, then the steps to disable them are different. Here is how it is.

Open the Google News app and click on your profile icon at the top right. Scroll down, click Settings and then select Notifications. Set the intensity to Low if you want to receive fewer notifications.

If you want to disable all notification from the app, turn off the option for ‘Get notifications’.

Hope the above guide will useful to you. Any suggestion about this topic, then please leave it in the comment.

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