Galaxy S6 Guide

How to disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen?

Turn off Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen and Galaxy S6 edge home screen

What is Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen?

Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen is one dedicated page/panel (the leftmost) showing you latest articles in various categories based on your interest and configurations.

In a nutshell, it is a customized full-page widget of the  Flipboard app.

Nobody knows why Samsung still insists on adding Flipboard Briefing in Galaxy S6  home screen.  If it was just a normal re-sizable widget, I believe more people would have used it frequently.

Flipboard Briefing was not welcomed in Galaxy Note 4 and many owners are asking how to remove it on Galaxy Note 4.  The older version of Flipboard Briefing is called My Magazine in Galaxy S5, which is equally unpopular.

Flipboard is an excellent magazine app and many Galaxy S6 owners like it. But if you force Galaxy S6 owners to use it as a fixed-page widget, many are not happy with it.

To make the situation worse in Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4,  once Flipboard Briefing (or My Magazine in Galaxy S5) is enabled, you cannot scroll across it when you try to swipe the home screen panels in one direction.  Luckily, in Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy S5, you can disable Flipboard Briefing (or My Magazine), and cycle through all home screen panels in both directions.

Samsung Galaxy S6 edge has the identical Flipboard Briefing  on the home screen, so this guide also applies to disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 edge.

Good news and bad news on Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen?

The good news on Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen is that you can disable it.

The bad news is that you still cannot cycle through the first panel or last panel of the Galaxy S6 home screen, even after you disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen.

This is the limitation (improvement??joking??) of  the new and improved TouchWiz in Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge.

How to disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen?

You can easily disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen by following these steps.

Step 1:  enter editing mode of Galaxy S6 home screen

Tap and hold any empty area in the home screen to enter editing mode for Galaxy S6 home screen.

You can also use pinching gesture on home screen to enter editing mode.

Step 2: Swipe to the leftmost panel

As mentioned, Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen lies in the leftmost (first) panel.

So, you can navigate to the Flipboard Briefing panel on Galaxy S6 home screen by one of the two methods:

Step 3: Deselect the tick box for Flipboard Briefing.

Now, you can tap the tick box to deselect Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen as shown below.

disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen

Can I completely remove Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen?

Unfortunately, there is no way to completely remove Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen from your Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge, because it is part of the TouchWiz.

After disabling Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen, it should not affect Galaxy S6 any more, except occupying some storage.

Can you disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen? Can you disable Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 edge home screen?

If you have any questions or encounter any problems on how to disable  Flipboard Briefing on Galaxy S6 home screen and on Galaxy S6 edge home screen, please leave a comment in the comment box below.

We will try to help you.

For other features of Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 online manual page.

For detailed guides on how to use Samsung Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 how-to guides page.



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Comments

  1. Thanks, worked fine. Cycling is not working – as you mentioned – but this is not so important.

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  2. Goddammit I really wish I could still cycle through my home pages like I did on my note 3 I even like the flipboard but you’re right if you force people will start to hate.

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    • Here is the trick:

      You can add new pages and move these around (left or right)
      You can promote any page to “hone” by tappinf the home symvol on top
      Ad such you can easily have pages left and right from your homepage
      The (disabled) Flip- page will remain the most left but that is no longer annoying!

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  4. If you want to cycle through hompeages and do all the things u want to ur home screen just go to play store and download NOVA launcher. touch wiz is annoying. i can scroll to the left now and have more homepages and space its much better. i also can add icons to my dock.

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  6. THANK YOU amazingly clear and easy (I wish they would just let us pick and choose instead of forcing assumptions 🙂

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  8. The way to get rid of it completely is to download Nova launcher, which is superior to touch wiz anyway. Using that launcher the whole flipboard thing isn’t an issue at all.

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  9. Thanks for the help. I USED to like Flipboard, and installed it by CHOICE on my S3. Having had it shoved down my throat by some backroom deal between the marketing people at Flipboard and Samsung, I now HATE it and will never use it again. Going to install Nova Launcher and find another news app.

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  11. Used these tips here to remove the Flipboard page from my new Galaxy A5 as well, having switched from my trusted S3. I was really baffled by this new stupid feature, so thanks for this and to the tip on Nova, feels almost like my old S3 now!

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  15. Thank you for the information on how to get rid of Flipboard. It was incredibly annoying! I might as well have had a strobe light go off in my face. It’s gone now. Woohoo!

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  16. Well, if your new samsung is rooted, you can really remove this *Briefing* from your phone, and I managed to do it with my new samsung galaxy Tab S2 (Which also used to have this application)

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  17. I just got the new S7 (Edge) Unfortunately it’s the same as the S6. Looks like I will be trying Nova Launcher.

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  19. Thank you for this how to block notifications information. I did stop the notifications on my s6 as you suggested. However, when I pressed the Disable part, the message “disabling built-in apps may cause errors in other apps,” so I left it alone.

    Is there reason to keep apps running, such as S Finder, Weather Daemon, and Nearby Services?
    Again, thank you!

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  20. I touched the start reading by mistake thinking it would offer a No don’t se option and now I CANNOT stop this ridiculous forced magazine on my S6!!! I hate it!
    How can you stop it??!!

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  21. Great article! I actually like the flipboard app most I’d the time so don’t want to get rid of it entirely, but I’ll make a note of steps in case I change my mind. Any idea how to stop the left screen Samsung s6 version from automatically updating every time you open it? It would be so much easier to be able to first read stories you missed then update it manually afterwards.

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  22. I did all the 3 steps. Briefing is “gone”.
    Then the next morning, I got a message from Briefing on the screen! Trashed this, and few hours later, another message!! The main screen was disabled, but not the activity of the program.

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  23. I figured out how to turn off Briefings, and it is turned off. However, I still get stupid pop up things at the top of my home page from Briefings. It is beyond annoying. I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to make those pop-ups stop.

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  24. It’s good to be able to disable this annoying widget, but I’ve lost track of the number of times it’seems turned itself back on in my bag/pocket. So damn annoying.

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  25. Samsung S6 I moved the weather widget on the home screen to the Briefing screen. How do I get it back to the home screen

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  27. I did follow the suggested steps i n order to deselect the tick box for Flipboard Briefing.
    but then I saw In my android there is not such a tick box to deselect.
    Only , on top of the briefing [screen[ it says briefing and to the right a switch “off-on”

    And it is in “off” postion and I still get the intruding unwanted unsolicited briefings

    How can I deselct and get rid of them? Please help!!!

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  29. Help, I have a Galaxy S5 not a S6. I never had this flipboard app and I have not updated my phone recently but last night it appeared on my home screen and it does not offer the deselect option when in editing like an S6. Please help me get rid of it I can’t stand it. It has also made it so I can’t flip through my preferred page continuously anymore. I have to go back and forth instead.

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