How to Personalize Google News

This wikiHow teaches you how to customize a Google News app or page. Because Google News relies on browsing history, you must manually remove or request specific topics/sources if you want to filter the news that appears in the news feed.

Table of Contents

On the computer

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Open the Google News page. Go to https://news.google.com/ using a web browser on your computer.

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Sign in with your Google account. If you’re not signed in to your Google account, click Sign in in the upper-right corner of the page, then enter your email address, click NEXT , enter your password, and then click NEXT again.

Skip this step if the account profile picture is displayed in the upper right corner of the page.

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Open the menu if necessary. By default, the sidebar with the list of options is on the left side of the page; If you don’t see it, you need to click the ☰ icon in the upper left corner of the page for the sidebar to appear.

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Change language and country settings. Place your mouse pointer on the left side of the page and scroll down to the “Language & region” section, then:

Click Language & region .
Check the box next to language and country (in the format “Language | Country”).
Click Update in the lower right corner.

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Scroll up and click For you . This tab is near the top of the menu on the left. A list of news items relevant to you will appear.

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Review the news that Google selects for you. Scroll down on the list of articles to see all the news that Google thinks is relevant to you.

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Specify that you want to see more news about the specific topic. If you see a topic you’d like to see more often in your Google News feed, do:

Hover your mouse pointer over the thread’s link.
Click the ⋮ icon that appears below the link.
Click More stories like this in the drop-down menu.

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Restrict future topics to specific topics. Similar to when you request more similar articles on a certain topic, you can also restrict certain topics in the future by:

Hover your mouse pointer over the thread’s link.
Click the ⋮ icon that appears below the link.
Click Fewer stories like this in the drop-down menu that appears.

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Hide all news from the source. If there’s a source you don’t want to read, you can hide it from future news lists by:

Place the mouse pointer over the link from that source.
Click the ⋮ icon that appears below the link.
Click Hide stories from [source name] in the drop-down menu that appears.

On mobile phone

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Open Google News. Tap the Google News app with the red, yellow, blue, and green tabs on a white background.

If Google News isn’t automatically signed in when you open the app, enter your email address and password when prompted.

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Click the For You tab in the lower left corner of the screen.

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Review the news that Google selects for you. Scroll down on the list of articles to see all the news that Google thinks is relevant to you.

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Specify that you want to see more news about the specific topic. To approve and request more stories from a certain topic in the news list later, please:

Tap the ⋯ (iPhone) or ⋮ (Android) icon to the right of the theme.
Click More stories like this from the drop-down menu that appears.

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Restrict future topics to specific topics. If you want to restrict certain topics in the future, do:

Tap the ⋯ (iPhone) or ⋮ (Android) icon to the right of the theme.
Click Fewer stories like this from the drop-down menu that appears.

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Hide all stories from a certain source from news. You can ignore all stories from the source you want to restrict from your feed by hiding the source as follows:

Tap the ⋯ (iPhone) or ⋮ (Android) icon to the right of the theme.
Tap Hide all stories from [source name] .

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Tap the profile icon located in the upper right corner of the screen. A menu will pop up at the bottom of the screen.

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Tap Settings in the middle of the pop-up menu. The account settings page will open.

Advice

You may need to remove news about unwanted topics from Google News several times before it actually stops appearing.
When using the Google News mobile app, you can change specific settings such as temperature units (for example, Fahrenheit) or Google settings (for example, the Google app that Google News can access) on Settings page.

Warning

While you can filter news results by specific categories, you won’t be able to adjust what topics appear on Google News unless you manually delete a topic or source. ^{[1] X Research Source}

Steps

On the computer

On mobile phone

Advice

Warning

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