When you open a new Chrome tab on your phone, in addition to recent bookmarks, you're offered up a list of suggested articles. If you prefer a distraction free new Chrome tab, you can enable a collapsible feature to hide those suggestions, or you can remove them altogether.
How to Enable Collapsible Suggestions in Chrome
When you open a new Chrome tab on your Android phone, you'll see a list of ten suggested articles. If you don't want these suggestions front and center, but still want to be able look at them every now and then, you can enable a collapsible feature.
- Open Chrome on your phone and copy this URL: chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-article-suggestions-expandable-header
- Paste into the Chrome address bar and hit Enter. (Alternatively, you can can go to chrome://flags and type ntp-article-suggestions in the search bar.)
- Under Show article suggestions expander header on New Tab page make sure that the feature is Enabled.
- Tap Relaunch Now to restart Chrome so the feature can take effect.
How to Remove "Articles for You" in Chrome
If you prefer, you can use a different setting to completely remove the Articles for You suggestions.
- Open Chrome on your phone and copy this URL: chrome://flags/#enable-ntp-remote-suggestions
- Paste into Chrome's address bar and hit Enter. (Alternatively you can go to chrome://flags and type ntp-remote-suggestions in the search bar.)
- Under Show server-side suggestions on the New Tab page select Disabled.
- Tap Relaunch Now to restart Chrome so the feature can take effect.
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