Posted on 07/15/2016 1:27:44 PM PDT by VinceASA
I've been frustrated by biased news feeds that show up unsolicited on my iPhone when I access my search bar or sometimes when I wake the device up.
I just looked and saw this:
Does anyone know how to shut this off? What really ticks me off is that Apple is pushing this stuff out.
I am also want to stop it.
trade in all your iphones/droids for a windows phone.
i have an iphone given to me from work, i ignore it, so it does not bother me as much.
Siri replied, "That's an interesting question."
Settings/Notifications/News > off
I lied... you are on the search screen. I’ll figure it out. I want it off too.
When I slide for the search bar there is nothing beneath the most clicked apps. No list of news. Try to delete the generic news app, maybe that would help. I don’t remember what I ever did but I see nothing where you see the news stories for WaPo and NYT.
Okay I have it:
Settings/General/Spotlight Search/News -> off
Again I lied... it turned off the news momentarily, then it came back! Aaargh.
I got a new Android last week (my 5yr old android finally died) and it took over an hour getting rid of all those news feeds and apps - disabled a bunch of apps I couldn’t delete.
Why can’t people uninstall the NFL app???
Smart phones are like pay cable tv; lots of crap you don’t want loaded on these things.
The good part is you get to pay for it.
If you turn off Spotlight Search, you get the blank search screen.
apple (or rather their slave laborers in communist china) make a nice little phone
but politically apple management seems very much communistic themselves
surprisingly
anyway, try going to settings and turning news feeds off there, best....
Alright this works:
Settings/General/Spotlight Search/News -> off
Settings/General/Spotlight Search/Spotlight Suggestions -> off
Fer shur.
I strongly suspect that it's not Apple, but some (default?) app that is pushing this news.
But, since I dumped all cellphones when I retired, (hence, have no iPhone) -- I can't take it farther than that...
You can disable the preinstalled apps you don’t want. The NFL app was the first one I disabled when I got my new phone.
For the News App to even display these headline selections in your notifications, you had to have selected the Washington Post and New York Times feeds at some point in the News App. It was not Apple who made these choices for you. Other, perhaps better choices, could have been Fox News, BBC News, Buzz Feed, Donald Trump, TechCrunch, The Verge, The New York Post, Reuters, CNBC, National Review Online, or many others.
I chose not to get any. I prefer to get my news from FreeRepublic when I browse at my convenience, not when it comes in willy-nilly. Since I did not select any, my Notification area for News is blank.
Thanks. I never selected any particular news at all. That’s what really ticks me off. Somebody at Apple just decided to push out these particular new sources to me without me even selecting anything - even the option of turning news on itself.
I have just made a reply, TXnMA, and you are right. It is not Apple at all. Apple has provided an app called simply News. A user is required to subscribe to the content when first running it from a host of providers or they will not get any such feeds, among them the New York Times and The Washington Post which are responsible for these objectionable propaganda headlines masquerading as News Headlines.
I am certain that if one runs the News App again, one may unsubscribe from the objectionable Liberal feeds and subscribe to the more palatable feeds. There are a few more acceptable feeds but no true conservative feeds, but what mainstream media truly is?
It hasn't happened to me or anyone I know who has iPhones under my control. Perhaps someone used your iPhone and started the News App and just tapped on the News Feeds to see what would happen? It is a proactive process to subscribe to the news feeds from the providers although they are free.
There ARE other apps that also provide news feeds from the same sources and also some that are stand-alone for each of them. Some are adjuncts of Apps that do other things and provide the news feeds as a service in addition to their primary purpose. Check to see if you have any of those. They may have opened up this service unknown to you.
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