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How to turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 home screen?

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1) The Flipboard briefing on the Galaxy Note 4 home screen can be disturbing
2) You can easily turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 home screen
3) Step-by Step guide on how to turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 home screen
3.1) Step 1: enter Galaxy Note 4 home screen editing mode
3.2) Step 2: uncheck Flipboard briefing in the Home screen settings
3.3) Step 3: Return to home screen.
3.4) Can you turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 home screen now?

how_to_turn_off_Flipboard_briefing_on_Galaxy_Note_4The Flipboard briefing on the Galaxy Note 4 home screen can be disturbing

In Galaxy Note 3, you get the annoying My Magazine on the home screen when you swipe up from the home button.  In Galaxy S5, this My Magazine was moved to a dedicated page on the home screen.

In the Galaxy Note 4, Samsung gave up the My Magazine because the reception was probably not as good as expected.

Now, a Flipboard briefing page has been added to the Galaxy Note 4 home screen. Flipboard is a nice app for reading and news aggregating on Android and iOS. You can put a widget on your home screen if you want.

The problem is that if you don’t turn off the Flipboard briefing on the Galaxy Note 4 home screen, you cannot “rotate” the home screens: once you flick to the Flipboard briefing page, it will not go to the next home screen, and you have to flick back.

So, the implementation is really a failure, although the idea is good.

This is very disturbing if you get used to scrolling the home pages without flicking back.

You can easily turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 home screen

Luckily, Samsung knows a lot of Galaxy Note 4 owners may hate this feature, so Samsung made it easy to remove the Flipboard briefing on the Galaxy Note 4 home screen.

In the Home screen editing mode, under home screen settings, you can turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 Home screen.

Step-by Step guide on how  to turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 home screen

Step 1: enter Galaxy Note 4 home screen editing mode

In any of the home screen pages, tap and hold any empty area to enter home screen editing mode in your Galaxy Note 4, as shown below.

In Home screen editing mode, you can customize the home screen, add apps and widgets to the home screen, and manage apps and widgets on the home screen. We will have other tutorials to cover these.

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 Step 2: uncheck Flipboard briefing in the Home screen settings

In Galaxy Note 4 home screen editing mode, tap Home screen settings.

In the new window, un-check Flipboard Briefing.

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Step 3: Return to home screen.

Tap the back button twice to return to the home screen.

Now you have turned off the Flipboard briefing on the Galaxy Note 4 home screen.  If you really need it, you can turn it on by following the similar steps.

Can you turn off Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 4 home screen now?

If you have any problems turning off or turning on Flipboard briefing on the Galaxy Note 4 home screen, please let us know in the comment box below. We will try to help you find a solution.

More how-to guides, tips, and tricks for using the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 are available on the Galaxy Note 4 how-to guides page.

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  1. Olelo Mai says

    THANK YOU!!!!!!! That damn thing was SO frustrating! I can’t stand apps that are forced on us when we have to BUY the phone! I can understand it if we rent the phone. But we BUY this phone! It’s ours! We should be able to load or delete anything we want off this thing!

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  5. matthew says

    You are my savior! I hated that thing more than I think I have ever hated anything a company has put on my phone.

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  6. Susanne says

    I can’t scroll through continuously, either. It stops on page one and won’t let me scroll left, and if I start at the home screen and scroll to the right it stops at page 3. In settings mode, I can see home screen page 4 but I can’t use it and it won’t let me scroll through continuously. Ugh…annoying.

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  9. les says

    Useful tip but not the ideal solution i hope samsung is listening to these commments I DON’T LIKE ANY APP THAT I CAN’T REMOVE EASILY AND COMPLETLY I AM SICK AND TIRED OF APPS THAT ARE FORCED UPON ME IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF MALWARE . So my question is how do you remove this piece of shit completly it is my phone i brought it so why should i have to put up with crap I don’t want. Perhaps a class action against these sort of apps should be started like when Microsoft was forced to remove explorer from the operating system.

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  10. jimch says

    It’s better if this can be replaceable (or turnoff as above) with other apps, for example Play Newstand, or any of my favorites.

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  11. Daniell Copeland says

    I can’t get my screens to rotate around either. I have my home screen and 4 other pages. It stops me when I get to both ends. I tried adding a Padgett like you suggested but it didn’t do anything.

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  24. Toney says

    I disabled Flipboard but my Note 4 still does not rotate all the way thru… Is there something else I need to do?

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  25. JT says

    What I’d like to know is how to get it where I can scroll through the home screens around and around like I used to on my Note 2?? This anoys me!

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