The road since the closure of Google News in 2014 has been long and tedious, but 8 years later we can officially confirm that the news app is back. With the change in the Intellectual Property legislation, the Mountain View company has the green light to return to operating in the territory without the need to pay a specific amount of money.
Throughout this publication we will teach you how to download and customize Google News on your device, since, at the moment, you cannot access it on a regular basis. That is why it is convenient to explain the procedure for those who are not fully placed in the situation.
Check news on your mobile
It was after the approval of the Canon AEDE of the Intellectual Property Law when Google made the decision to close the news service. Since then, it has been impossible to download the app legally through the company’s virtual store and even obtaining it through other means, it did not offer the possibility of changing to the Spanish edition.
After a long period of doubts and rumours, at the end of last year 2021, the Internet giant made its intention to offer Google News again in Spanish territory official. Now, curiously, Google News has returned to coincide with its 20th anniversary . So now you can take a look at the news from your favorite media thanks to this application in a simple way.
At the moment the app is not available to all users , since there are those who cannot access it from the Play Store, although more and more people enjoy it. Otherwise, you will be interested to know that you can get it as an APK for Android from websites like Uptodown.
If by any chance it appears as not available for your country in the Google store, all you have to do is go to the Uptodown link and select “Download latest version” . You may need to enable downloads from external sources like Google Chrome. Your smartphone will notify you of this with a pop-up window that will redirect you to the location within the settings, so don’t be nervous.
Use Google News like the first time
It is possible that after so much time you feel a little disoriented when opening Google News again. Precisely for this reason it is convenient to explain in detail what the first steps are when starting the app so that the contact is not so aggressive.
Of course, before getting into the matter, it is necessary to point out that, if you had a previous version of the application, you must change the region to adjust the program to your preferences and needs. To do this, you just have to follow these steps:
- Open Google News on your phone.
- Select your profile icon and then click on “News Settings”.
- Tap on “Languages and regions that interest you”.
That said, it’s time to find out how Google News works and in this sense it should be noted that you have a lower bar made up of these options: For you, Headlines, Following and Press.
The first shows related news based on your tastes and other content that interests you according to history. On the other hand, the Headlines section provides news on different topics structured solely by the title of the publication, so you only have to click on one of them to access the entire article.
Thirdly, as is obvious, the Following section hides those platforms that you have decided to follow to see their content more easily . Finally, we have Press, where you can find all kinds of magazines, publications or other elements of a large number of media, which you can sometimes access for free.
How to follow a medium and make related news appear
To go directly to those publications that are of interest to us, we can choose to follow the medium in question in Google News. This way your news will appear in the Following tab to consult it in an instant.
In addition, if we click on the three vertical points that appear next to each publication, we will obtain access to more options , such as saving it to read it later, sharing it, going to the web page, hiding the publications of the medium in question or marking the news so that the system shows more or less similar to them.
It is advisable to take full advantage of all these features to get the most out of Google News. We can only encourage you to follow us in the application using the search engine in the upper left area and mark the star at the top of the screen. Thanks to this tool you can not only keep up to date with our site’s news, but also search for publications by theme or other aspects.
To quickly go to the information of your favorite medium, you can click on the three points next to the star and select the option “Add to home screen” to have it just one touch away. Also, in the Following section you will find a “+” symbol at the bottom with which you can add topics, sources or news related to a specific location.
