With Discover, you can get updates for your interests, like your favorite sports team or news site, without searching for them. You can choose the types of updates you want to find in Discover in the Google app or when you’re browsing the web on your phone.
Important: Some of these features might not be available in all languages and countries.
Find Discover
You can find Discover in a few different ways:
- In the Google app
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- On your Android phone or tablet, in your browser on google.com.
- On some devices, swipe right from your device's home screen.
Customize Discover
To manage your content in Discover, select an option below.
If you're using:
- Chrome: Go to manage suggested articles.
- A Google app or google.com: To choose what updates you get, follow, or unfollow, use the Google app or the settings in your browser.
Step 1: Turn on Web & App Activity & personal results
Web & App Activity saves your searches, browsing history, and other activity in your Google Account. Personal results uses your saved activity to give you helpful personalized results, like articles you might be interested in.
Step 2: Choose what updates you get
Stop getting stories from certain topics or sources
Important: This feature may not be available in all languages and countries or regions. To find your saved items, you must be signed in to your Google Account.
Bring back topics or sources you removed
Step 3: Change how often you find topics in Discover
Important: Only you can view the stories you like, but your selections may be shared anonymously with publishers.
How Google decides what to show you in Discover
To know what to show in Discover, Google uses information from your device and from other Google products.
Google also uses data that's stored in your Google Account. This data is based on settings you can change or turn on or off. These settings may include:
- Web & App Activity. Learn how to find and control your Web & App Activity.
- App info from your devices. Learn how to manage app info from your devices.
- Contact info from your devices. Learn how to manage contact info from your devices.
- Personal results. Learn how to turn off personal results.
- Location History (For Google to use this information, you need to have Web & App Activity turned on). Learn how to understand and manage your location when you search on Google.
- Location settings: Some updates in Discover are shown based on your home location. If your home location isn't available, Google will estimate your location based on other sources, like your IP address. Learn how to understand and manage your location when you search on Google.
Turn off personalization in Discover
If you don’t want to get personalized stories, turn off personal results.
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