How to disable flipboard briefing on Galaxy Note 5?

View Comments

• 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.

  • You can enter the Brief app and turn off the notifications. Voila!

  • Google flipboard and it says specifically they are EXTREMELY LIBTARD.....Remove at once. Should be illegal to apply an APP without explicit consent

  • Are you sure it's from Flipboard Briefing?

• 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.

  • You can share the screenshot in our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/GalaxyNoteOwners

• 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.

  • You can disable the Briefing app in application manager. You can find the app by switching to show system apps.

    • Apparently you didn't understand what I wrote. I never said I don't know how to turn it off. I already turned it off on the homescreen. I already disabled it in application settings. I know how to turn it off. The problem is that IT KEEPS TURNING BACK ON. And from what I have read I am not the only one having the problem.

      • I am also having the problem. I turn it off and every time I return to my phone outs back on again!

        • Did you disable it in application manager?

      • If you disable it, it may only be enabled after a major update. Please note, you should disable it, not just force stop.

• 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?

  • What do you want to achieve? It's a bit confusing. What are the other two apps you referring to?

• Thank you

  • I removed the extra sheet to the left but I still get the annoying notifications. How do yiu turn those off? Ive look in settings notifications abd it does not show there. This it gonna force me to ditch samsung....

    • You can disable the app named Briefing in settings - applications - application manager. Tap the menu key (3 vertical dots in top right), tap show system apps, you can then find the app in the list. Disable it( you cannot uninstall it because it's pre-installed as a system app.

• 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

• 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?

  • You can disable the Briefing app in settings - applications - application manager. If you cannot find the app, tap the menu key (3 vertical dots) and enable show system apps.

    • This works. Thank you.

      But I will never buy Samsung again!

    • Awesome, that worked for me !

• 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.

  • You can add many instances (copies) of any apps and widgets. It should not be affected by the Flipboard briefing. What do you get when you try to add the widget?

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

  • You can disable the app in settings - applications - application manager. You need tap the menu icon(3 vertical dots), enable showing system apps. Then you can find the Briefing app and disable it.

    You can also disable notifications for individual apps including Briefing. Please read this guide http://gadgetguideonline.com/android/android-marshmallow-guide/how-to-manage-app-notifications-in-android-marshmallow/

• Thank you! So simple but so annoying when you don't know how to do it.

  • Enjoy the phone. Flipboard briefing should be offered as a normal app as many owners don't use it.

• Thank you!

• 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?

  • On the Samsung Galaxy A5, execute step 1 from instructions above and then:
    2) At the bottom of the screen, tap on Home screen settings,
    3) Uncheck Fliboard Briefing.

    • This is the only way that works on my phone.

      Using Application Manager to Disable or Force Stop has absolutely no effect - setting will be ignored.

    • Thank you for sharing the tips on how to disable Flipboard briefing in Galaxy A5.

  • Tap and hold any empty area on the home screen, do you have the settings icon?

• 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!

• Thank you so much!!

• thanks alot for help!