{"id":1772,"date":"2019-10-17T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2023-11-10T23:06:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T17:36:46","slug":"how-hide-google-suggested-articles-iphone-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/how-hide-google-suggested-articles-iphone-android\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide Google Suggested Articles on iPhone and Android?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Google Chrome remains one of my favorite web browsers across different platforms (from macOS to Windows and from Apple iOS to Android). Don&#8217;t get me wrong! when I talk about certain features like <strong>Google Suggested Articles<\/strong> that have often wanted me to look for alternatives. Whenever I open a new tab in Chrome, too many suggested articles. That&#8217;s why it led me to explore a way to hide Google Chrome&#8217;s recommended items on the iPhone and Android. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">If you also like to have a clean tab, jump right in as I show you how you can easily disable article suggestions in Google chrome with ease. If you haven&#8217;t played this <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/play-google-chrome-t-rex-runner-game-in-3d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrome 3D T-Rex runner game<\/a><\/span> that is far better than the 2D T-Rex runner. Know more about it here! Well, moving on to removing Google Suggested Articles from Android as well as iOS devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"hide-google-suggested-articles-on-the-iphone-and-android\"><strong>Hide Google Suggested Articles on the iPhone and Android<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Google Chrome offers a very straightforward way to turn off article recommendations on iOS (and iPad) devices. But surprisingly, the web browser doesn&#8217;t provide a native feature to disable this article suggestion feature on Android devices. There is a simple, quick trick to remove suggested articles. Having tried this method on my Android device, I can vouch for its reliability. That said, let&#8217;s get going!<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"turn-off-google-suggested-articles-on-ios-and-ipados\"><strong>Turn Off Google Suggested Articles on iOS and iPadOS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the <b>Google <\/b><strong>Chrome app<\/strong> on your iPhone or iPad.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2. Now, tap the <strong>three horizontal dots<\/strong> at the bottom right corner of the screen and choose <strong>Settings<\/strong> in the menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1777\" src=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-in-ios.png\" alt=\"Google chrome iOS, google chrome suggested articles\" width=\"272\" height=\"563\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-in-ios.png 272w, https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-in-ios-145x300.png 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1776\" src=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-in-ios-2.png\" alt=\"disable google suggested articles, Google chrome iOS, remove google suggested articles\" width=\"272\" height=\"563\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-in-ios-2.png 272w, https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-in-ios-2-145x300.png 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Next, toggle the <strong>Article Suggestions<\/strong> button. Then, make sure to tap on the <strong>Done<\/strong> button on the top right to finish.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<figure style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-setting.png\" alt=\"iphone google chrome setting, remove google chrome suggested articles\" width=\"520\" height=\"563\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disable Google Suggested Articles on iPhone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also, read details on <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/stop-websites-from-opening-new-tabs\/\">how to stop websites from opening in new tabs<\/a><\/span> in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"disable-chrome-article-suggestions-using-google-chrome-flags-on-android\"><strong>Disable Chrome Article suggestions using Google Chrome-Flags on Android<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Chrome flags are well known to solve quite a few riddles like removing the suggested articles feature.<\/p>\n<p>1. Open the <strong>Google Chrome browser <\/strong>on your Android device and then enter <strong>chrome:\/\/flags<\/strong> into the URL bar and then press Return\/Go.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7309194358629955\" data-ad-slot=\"6159899263\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<figure style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/google-chrome-setting-android.jpg\" alt=\"google chrome setting in android, google chrome suggested articles\" width=\"519\" height=\"559\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hide Google Suggested Articles using &#8220;chrome:\/\/flags&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>2. Now, search for <strong>#enable-NTP-remote-suggestions<\/strong> into the search bar.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<figure style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"google suggested articles\" src=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-flags-in-android.png\" alt=\"chrome flags, hide suggested articles, google suggested articles,\" width=\"257\" height=\"562\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Chrome Flag Option<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>3. Next, tap on the <strong>drop-down menu<\/strong> placed under the <strong>Show Server-Side Suggestions<\/strong> and choose <strong>Disabled<\/strong> to remove suggested articles.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<figure style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-flags2.png\" alt=\"chrome flags, Google Suggested Articles\" width=\"518\" height=\"558\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Chrome Flag &#8211; chrome:\/\/flags\/#enable-ntp-remote-suggestions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>4. Finally, tap on the <strong>Relaunch Now<\/strong> button to apply the changes. Chrome will then restart, and you&#8217;ll see the changes into effect instantly.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chrome-final.png\" alt=\"google flags final step\" width=\"518\" height=\"560\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steps to hide Google suggested articles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"permanently-disable-google-suggested-articles\"><strong>Permanently Disable Google Suggested Articles<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s an easy way to come across how to hide Google Suggested Articles using the aforementioned steps. Just like you, I also wonder why desktop chrome suggests articles and why Google doesn&#8217;t offer a simple way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidingtech.com\/disable-suggested-articles-chrome-ios-android\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disable this feature<\/a> on its Android version. Hopefully, the search giant gets it right before it gets later. That was all about Hiding Unwanted Articles, have you any feedback for us? Drop it in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Chrome remains one of my favorite web browsers across different platforms (from macOS to Windows and from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40,334],"tags":[7,90,767,9,595],"class_list":{"0":"post-1772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-how-to","8":"category-android","9":"category-google","10":"tag-android","11":"tag-apple","12":"tag-google-suggested-articles","13":"tag-ios","14":"tag-turn-off-chrome-suggested-articles","15":"cs-entry","16":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11464,"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/11464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}