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How to customize your feed on Google News, Apple News
News fatigue is a real issue right now. As a nation, we’re dealing with some heavy subject matter from COVID-19 to the 2020 election and the gloom and doom headlines reflect it.
Just think about all the negative headlines that are popping up on your news feeds. Whether it’s warnings delivering more stats on the pandemic or stories about dire political infighting, all of that can take a toll on your mental health. Overwhelmed by bad news? Here are some tips to cope with endless headlines.
Negative headlines don’t have to take a toll on you, though. You can give yourself a break by tailoring your news feed to your interests instead. Whether you’re making a short-term change or a permanent overhaul, here’s how you can customize your news feed on Apple News and Google News.
Customizing Google News
Many of us use Google News to keep up with headlines, but not everyone realizes its feed can be completely tailored to your interests. You can actually customize Google News to get more of the stories you want, whether that’s scores from last night’s game or stories on space exploration or medical breakthroughs.
You can also customize your feed to help cut down on seeing stories that don’t interest you. If you’re tired of seeing the never-ending slew of political stories, you can make changes that will remove those, too.
The settings on your Google News can be adjusted to:
- Follow or unfollow an interest like a topic, place, or publication
- Like or unlike specific stories about a topic or from a source
- Hide stories from a source
These types of adjustments can be done on mobile or on desktop.
To customize your Google News feed with your interests (on mobile or desktop):
Start by typing news.google.com into the search bar or open the Google News app.
