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How to disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5?

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Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5 is an annoying feature in the home screen. Most owners want to get rid of it. This guide shows you how to disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5 home screen.

Flipboard briefing, a feature in Samsung TouchWiz,  is one dedicated page/panel (the leftmost) showing you latest articles in various categories based on your interest and configurations.

Like in Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy S6, Galaxy Note 5 also includes the annoying flipboard briefing panel in Galaxy Note 5 home screen, although most users don’t like it.

The bad news is that you cannot remove the flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5 totally. But you can disable it easily. This guide shows you how to disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5.

To disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5 home screen, please follow these steps.

Table of Contents hide
1) Step 1: Enter Galaxy Note 5 home screen edit mode
2) Step 2: Switch to the leftmost panel
3) Step 3: Uncheck the option to disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5
4) Step 4: Return to home screen
5) How to enable/turn on flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5?
6) I still cannot cycle through the leftmost panels after turning off flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5, why?
7) Can you turn off/disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5?

Step 1: Enter Galaxy Note 5 home screen edit mode

You can enter Galaxy Note 5 home screen edit mode by one of the following methods:

  1. tap and hold any blank area in Galaxy Note 5 home screen as shown below.
  2. or, pinch your fingers in Galaxy Note 5 home screen.

You can do this in any home screen panels, not necessarily in the home panel.

Please check this page if you want to learn more about about the Galaxy Note 5 touch screen gestures.

disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5: home screen edit mode

 

Step 2: Switch to the leftmost panel

Flipboard briefing is in the leftmost panel of Galaxy Note 5 home screen. So, after entering the edit mode, you need switch to the leftmost panel.

You can switch to the leftmost panel by:

  • swiping from left to right on the home screen until you reach the leftmost panel.
  • or, tap the screen indicators (as shown in this page) for the leftmost panel until you reach the leftmost panel.

Please note, tapping the corresponding screen indicator does NOT switch to the corresponding panel immediately in Galaxy Note 5. It only move one panel after tapping once. This is a bit annoying.

Step 3: Uncheck the option to disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5

Once you are in the leftmost panel, you can see the the preview of flipboard briefing as shown below.

On top of the preview as shown below, you can uncheck it to disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5.

disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5: uncheck flipboard briefing option

Step 4: Return to home screen

Tap back button or home button to return to return to normal home screen mode.

How to enable/turn on flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5?

If you want to use Galaxy Note 5 flipboard briefing, you can turn it on at any time by following the similar steps mentioned above.  You just check the option, instead of unchecking it, to turn on flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5.

I still cannot cycle through the leftmost panels after turning off flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5, why?

Flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5 is not the cause of the problem.

Galaxy Note 5 does not allow you to cycle through the leftmost and rightmost home screen panels regardless of disabling/enabling flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5. This is different from Galaxy Note 4.

This is one of the most annoying new features in the new TocuhWiz.  There are no solutions yet. You have to swipe back once you hit the wall in the leftmost and rightmost panel.

Of course, you may try some third-party launchers which may support cycling through the home screen panels.

Can you turn off/disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5?

If you have any questions or encounter any problems on how to turn off / disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5, please leave a comment in the comment box below.

The community will try to help you.

For other Galaxy Note 5 features and detailed Galaxy Note 5 how-to guides , please check Galaxy Note 5 how-to guides page.

You may also download and read the official Samsung Galaxy Note 5 user manual here.

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  1. Chris Mcrae says

    Still can’t get rid of the brief article that shows on lock screen. Cant stand it. It’s usually either a made up Trump derangement syndrome panic article or squewed leftist FAKE news. Total bull shit. If this is locked into galaxy’s ok system I won’t buy another one.

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  2. Greenbergman says

    So I got part way through this – to the last screen shot above with Briefing in an inset box with the color squares (what are those for?) above and below. But above that is a trashcan, not the box your screen shot shows. I tried pressing that garbage can, but nothing happens. I’d attach a screen shot, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that.

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  3. donald keiber says

    This is incorrect information. Everyone knows how to shut it off because there’s a slide switch that says on and off. The problem is that after you turn it off it keeps turning itself back on again. Maybe two days later, or ten days, or who knows what the schedule but it keeps turning back on. Once I set it to OFF it should stay that way. PERIOD.

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  4. Harley boo says

    Somehow flip board had completely disappeared off my phone. I looked under all my app settings. It was annoying because every time I swiped too far left it would ask my location permission and I always would deny, and would go back to my home page and these two icons from previous apps I had downloaded and then later Uninstalled kept popping up for about a second or two and then disappear. The 2 apps are completely erased in all my settings and Google acct. Now all of a sudden flip board is gone off my phone. What the heck?

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  6. Anonymous says

    Add extra blank pages to the right of flipboard and you can then go back and forth like the note 4….you can even still use the original flipboard because it isnt in the wa anymore

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  7. Gary Granath says

    Note 5 Android Marshmallow briefing page has On/Off slider, not a checkbox. I set it to Off but still get occasional briefings. How do I kill it till it’s dead?

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  8. Rebecca Lowder says

    I placed a widget on the flip board page and now cannot move the widget to another page or create it again. How can I fix that? I can disable flip board but it also makes that page and therefore that widget inaccessible.

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  9. J says

    I have disabled flipboard but I still get daily notifications How do I get rid of the flipboard notifications?

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  12. Paul Watson says

    I have a Galaxy A5 and \i cannot find any instruction to disable Flipboard. When I follow your instruction for Note 5 (the nearest model to mine) I cannot display a check box to disable the app, only the general discard bin icon above it, which is inactivated. Can you help?

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  13. Wendy says

    Thank you sooooooooooo much! You are awesome! My suffering is over! I can breathe again without having to worry about encountering that awful annoying thing ever again! Life is great! Thanks again!

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