The Google Discover page is just a few steps away from the home screen on millions of Android phones, including the Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy. But many users don't necessarily know it exists or how they can get the most out of it.
As the name suggests, the purpose of the page is to help you find the information you are looking for. For example, it could be news, sports scores or weather forecasts, and the page should improve over time to understand what you want.
If you've never properly looked at the Google Discover page or don't feel like you've ever truly understood how it works, read on. This isn't something you'll find built into the iPhone, although you can find a similar page in the Google app for iOS.
Go to Google Discover page
All you need to do to get to the Discover page on your Android phone is swipe from left to right on the home screen. If you have multiple home screens involved, you'll need to keep swiping until you get to the one farthest to the left – then the next swipe should open Google Discover for you.
You may find some slight differences depending on the type of Android phone you have. For example, Google Discover is enabled by default on Galaxy phones, but can be replaced by Samsung's News screen. To get Google Discover back, open Samsung News, then tap the three dots (top right): Select Add a media page to your home screenand you can choose between Google Discover And Samsung News.
At first, if you're just starting to use Google Discover, the news you see may not be of much interest to you. These will be based on a variety of factors and information that Google has access to, including your Chrome browsing history and your past Google searches, so these histories should be at least somewhat related to what you've previously searched online.
You can click on any story to read it in Google Discover's built-in browser: use the down arrow and crosses (top left) to minimize or close the browser as needed and return to Discover. There are also buttons under each story to like the story and share it with others (you can choose a specific contact or app, or get a link to share).
Keep scrolling the Discover page for more and more stories. At the top, you'll find several information widgets that display sports scores, weather forecasts, stock prices, sunrise and sunset times, currently playing media, and other content Google thinks will interest you. At the very top you can click Google to run searches on the Internet or using artificial intelligence.
Setting up your Google Discover page
Now you know where to find the Google Discover page and how to get around it, you can start setting it up. To some extent, this should happen automatically as Google learns more about you through your browsing history (if you have it in Chrome on your desktop or mobile device) and through your Google searches.
If you tap the three dots next to any news story in your Discover feed, you'll find several options you can use to refine the type of news you see: Less such contentor tell Google that you Not interested in the topic. You can also use this pop-up menu to block a specific website in Discover.
On the other hand, you can show approval for a story's choice by clicking the heart icon below it. You also have the opportunity Save history that can be viewed later (click on the three dots to find it). To find your saved stories, click on your Google account image (top right), then Saves and Collections.
You can customize your Discover feed in a few other ways: Tap your Google account picture (top right), then Search personalizationand you can customize the stories you like, the topics you follow (like “soccer” and “tech”), and a list of items you're not interested in – so if you've never been interested in cat content before but now like it, you can edit it here. You can also edit your Google search history.
There's also a way to set your preferred news stories in Google Discover and Google search: You need to run a standard Google search from Discover for a topic in news, then click the icon next to the right of the Top Stories box. From there you can add your preferred sources, so you might want to include Popular ScienceFor example.
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