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Samsung: Enable or Disable Samsung Free on the Home Screen

If the Samsung Free page with news and instant games keeps popping up when you swipe left on your home screen, you probably want to switch it off. Some users lose this page after a system update and want it back instead. The toggle for this panel sits away from the usual display settings, which is why it is easy to miss.

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Step 1 of 3: Tap and hold an empty **area** on the home screen

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Samsung Free, previously known as Samsung Daily and built on Bixby Home, sits on its own panel to the left of your main home screen. It shows a news feed and a row of instant games that run without installation, using extra system resources in the background.

Because this panel is a separate screen rather than a widget, there is no icon for it in the app drawer. The toggle lives in the home screen edit menu instead.

To reach it, Tap and hold an empty area on the home screenSwipe left to first pageEnable or disable Samsung Free. This switch works the same way in both directions: turning it off removes the whole panel from your swipe gesture, turning it on brings back the news and games page.

Switching Samsung Free off can help with battery life, since the feed stops refreshing content in the background. It also removes one more panel from your swipe navigation, which some people find distracting.

If you only want to stop seeing suggested articles without losing the panel completely, check the content settings inside Samsung Free itself before disabling it here. That keeps the shortcut available while trimming what shows up on it.

Frequently asked questions

Some updates reset the home screen layout and turn the panel off by default. Repeat Tap and hold an empty area on the home screenSwipe left to first pageEnable or disable Samsung Free to bring it back.

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Android 11 · One UI 3

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