How to put Google Discover on an iPhone

What is Google Discover?

This functionality of Google offers you information about your preferences without you asking for it. When you open the Google app you will see a list of relevant news about your topics of interest, be it your favorite football team, your favorite style of music or the news that may interest you the most.

You can find Discover in two ways. The first is on an iPhone or iPad, opening the Google app. The second is by opening the browser and accessing google.es. Once you are here, you will have to access your Google account and you will be able to configure the Discover option. The difference between this feed and the search engine is that Discover is designed to be personalized and adapted to what the user is looking for. The content is updated automatically as new information on those topics becomes available. However, in the search engine you have to be the one who looks for specific things of your interest, and the latest news does not always appear, nor is it updated automatically. Discover does not return search results but provides them automatically.

How to customize Discover

Before you can customize Discover, you’ll need to have a Google account and access the browser, either from its own app or from a different browser, but always using Google. To start managing your content in Discover, select one of the following options, depending on the browser you use will be one or the other.

• Chrome: Go to Manage Suggested Articles.
• A Google app or google.com: Follow the steps below to choose what information you want to receive, follow, or stop following.

Step 1: Turn on the Web & App Activity setting

The Web & App Activity setting saves your searches, browsing history, and other types of activity to your Google account.

1. On an iPhone or iPad, open the Google app .
2. In the top right, tap your profile picture or initial search activity .
3. Tap Activity Saved .
4. Turn on the Web & App Activity setting.

Step 2: Choose the news you want to receive

If you’re looking for something you’re interested in, you can follow that topic to get news about it on Discover.

In the Google app

1. On an iPhone or iPad, open the Google app .
2. In the top right, tap your profile picture or initials Settings .
3. Tap Interests Your interests .
4. To follow new topics, go to ‘According to your activity’ and tap Add .
   • To hide a topic in Discover, tap Lock .

in the browser

1. On an iPhone or iPad, open your browser and visit google.com.
2. At the top left, tap Menu Settings .
3. Under “Discover,” tap Manage Interests Your interests .
4. To follow new topics, go to ‘According to your activity’ and tap Add .
   • To hide a topic in Discover, tap Lock .

Step 3: Change how often you see topics in Discover

Note: Only you can see the news you like, but your selections can be shared anonymously with editors.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google app or go to google.com in your browser.
2. At the bottom right of the card you choose, tap Like .

This determines what is displayed in Discover

To determine what to show in Discover, Google uses information from your device and from other Google products.

In addition, Google uses the data stored in your Google account. This data is taken from the settings that you can modify, activate or deactivate. These settings include:

• Activity on the Web and in Applications. Learn how to view and control Activity data on the Web and in Apps.
  • Information about the apps on your devices. Learn how to manage information about apps on your devices.
  • Information about the contacts of your devices. Learn how to manage contact information on your devices.
• Location history. In order for Google to use this information, the Web & App Activity setting must be turned on. Learn how to change the Google app’s location settings.
• Location settings: Some of the information that appears in Discover is chosen based on your home location. Learn how to set your home and work locations. If your home location is not available, Google may estimate your location using other sources, such as your IP address. Understand and manage your location when searching on Google

How to access the news

To access it is very simple and there are several methods. The first is to use the Google application that is installed on your phone, a colored G icon that will take us to the search engine and automatically show us the Discover section with all the content that may be interesting to us or that the search engine believes. . But it is not the only option we have to access.

For example, some devices allow us to swipe right from the home screen or to enter Discover. And other Android phones and tablets show us directly if we open the Google.com website from the browser and here they will show us all the news and developments.

So you can disable Discover

If you don’t want to use Discover anymore or want to disable it, you’ll need to follow two easy steps. Like the previous configuration, you have two options, depending on whether you do it from the Google application or if, on the contrary, you do it from a different browser.

In the Google app

1. On an iPhone or iPad, open the Google app .
2. At the top right, tap your profile picture or initials > Settings > General .
3. Turn Discover off.

in the browser

Please note that this feature may not be available in all languages and countries.

1. On an iPhone, go to google.com.
2. Tap Menu > Settings > Discover > Don’t show on homepage .