How to disable Flipboard Briefing on the Samsung Galaxy S6 / edge

Samsung has had a My Magazine feature on its smartphones ever since the Galaxy S5. It's a panel, which is filled with news from various sources, personalized to the phone owner's taste. My Magazine was later renamed to Flipboard Briefing and permanently resides in the leftmost homescreen.

If you like to get your news delivered to you this way – it's a great tool, for sure. However, users that don't read Flipboard will soon find the panel to be a bit of a nuisance. It's very easy for one to swipe to it by mistake, which usually creates a second of delay while the phone loads the headlines up. There is also a general belief that the Briefing panel may cause the phone to lag from time to time, due to it taking up resources to download news. We'd rather not back that statement as of yet, as we find the Galaxy S6 to run pretty well, even with Flipboard on. However, we can definitely see why users who don't read it would rather have the Briefing off.

Hiding the panel on the Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge was not hard, though the option was slightly hidden. In the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge's slimmed down interface, the option to turn off Flipboard Briefing is even easier to access and switching the feature on and off takes mere seconds. Check out the slideshow below for full instructions.