Get rid of "My Magazine"?

[bill hansen]

Is there a way to get rid of the annoying "My Magazine" crapware which occasionally occupies the entirety of one of the Home pages of the S5?

 

[jumblebean]

Bill, you can long tap on any homescreen, goto homescreen settings and uncheck my mag. If you are in US there is no way to delete or permanently disable it in the Applications. It will just keep coming back, just like those pesky STDs.

Is there a way to get rid of the annoying "My Magazine" crapware which occasionally occupies the entirety of one of the Home pages of the S5?

 

[bill hansen]

Yes, "My Magazine" page can be temporarily closed by bringing up the internet history and pressing the "X" on the MM page there. But I was hoping that long-pressing on the "My Magazine" home page , or some other maneuver, would close it semi-permanently.

The dumbest thing of all is that MM asks you to accept its "privacy policy" (no privacy) and its "terms and conditions". The "terms and conditions" note that the marketer of "My Magazine" can communicate back and forth with social media sites and the internet - so if you accept those conditions, you've turned your phone into the equivalent of a robo-call machine for mass marketers, and you've given up any tiny amount of privacy which social media sites permit. I wonder if anyone (except Samsung) thinks those are good ideas.

Anyway - I guess we're all stuck with it then.

Bill

 

[Fox Mulder]

You always have the option of rooting the phone which then makes it possible to disable apps like this. Understood though if this isn't for you.
Interestingly I don't have this app disabled, but it never pops up so I must have killed enough other things that it can't run.

 

[jumblebean]

Yes, "My Magazine" page can be temporarily closed by bringing up the internet history and pressing the "X" on the MM page there. But I was hoping that long-pressing on the "My Magazine" home page , or some other maneuver, would close it semi-permanently.

The dumbest thing of all is that MM asks you to accept its "privacy policy" (no privacy) and its "terms and conditions". The "terms and conditions" note that the marketer of "My Magazine" can communicate back and forth with social media sites and the internet - so if you accept those conditions, you've turned your phone into the equivalent of a robo-call machine for mass marketers, and you've given up any tiny amount of privacy which social media sites permit. I wonder if anyone (except Samsung) thinks those are good ideas.

Anyway - I guess we're all stuck with it then.

Bill

 

[jumblebean]

NO do not think we are on the same page yet. Long tap on phone homescreen....same place as widgets and wallpapers are found. Not in the app starting from home button.

 

[jlzibell]

Go to Settings, Home Screen. Then uncheck My Magazine.