Customise what you find on Google News

Note: This feature is only available if you're signed in to your Google Account.

You can customise Google News to get stories about specific topics, like sports teams, technology or space exploration. The updates from the interests you follow show up in the Following tab’s content feed.

To get more or less of the stories you want:

Follow or unfollow an interest, such as a topic, location or source.
Like or unlike specific stories about a topic or from a source.
Hide stories from a source.

Choose what stories to get

Follow an interest

On your iPhone or iPad, open Google News .
At the top left, tap Search .
Search for a topic, location or source, or tap a listed interest.
Tap Follow .

Tip: To explore new topics, locations and sources, tap Newsstand

Unfollow an interest

If you no longer want to receive updates or news about a topic, location or source:

Open the topic, location or source, and then tap Following .
At the bottom, tap Following Library:
- Topics: Under 'Topics', tap View all and manage More Stop following this topic.
- Sources: Under 'Sources', tap View all and manage More Stop following this source.
- Locations: Under 'Local', tap View all and manage More Stop following this location.

Like or unlike a story

Important: You may not be able to like or unlike a story. For example, you won't be able to like stories labelled Headlines in the 'Briefing' section or any story in the Headlines tab.

Under a story that you like or don't like, tap More .
If you want:
- To get more stories like it: tap More stories like this .
- To get fewer stories like it: tap Fewer stories like this .

Hide stories from a source

Find a story from the source that you no longer want to get updates from.
To no longer get stories from that source, tap More Hide all stories from [source] .

How Google News uses your Web & App Activity

Your Google Account saves your searches and other activity across Google products to My Activity. Google News can personalise your news based on some of those activities. Learn how to view and control activity on your account.