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 couple different ways:
- On your iPhone or iPad in the Google app
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- On your iPhone in your browser on google.com.
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.
If you're new to iPhone, you can learn how to personalize your content in Discover.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.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google app
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- At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial
Search history
- On the "Web & App Activity" card, tap Turn on.
- If you find “Turn off," you already have your Web & App Activity and Search history turned on.
- Review what happens when you turn on Web & App Activity, then tap Turn on.
Step 2: Choose what updates you get
Unfollow topicIn the Google app
- On your iPhone, open your Google app
- At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial
- Tap Following.
- To unfollow a topic, on the Interest page, tap Following.
- To turn off notification, tap
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- To turn off notification, tap
Unblock topic
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google app
- At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial
Settings
- Tap Not Interested.
- To unblock a topic, tap Remove
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- On your iPhone or iPad, open your Google app
- At the bottom right of the card, tap More
In the Google app
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google app .
- At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial
- Tap Not interested.
- Uncheck any topics you want to bring back.
In your browser
- On your iPhone or iPad, in your browser, go to google.com.
- At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial
- Under "Discover," tap Manage interests
- Uncheck any topics you want to bring back.
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.
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google app
- At the bottom right of the card you like, tap Like
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- To find the content that you liked, go to Discover Likes.
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 & 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 change your Google app location settings.
- Location settings: Some updates in Discover are shown based on your home location. Learn how to set your home and work locations. If your home location isn't available, Google will estimate your location based on other sources, like your IP address. Understand and manage your location when you search on Google.