Pressing home button twice used to bring up articles of interest

[PsychDoc]

Now all I get is the Google search bar when I press the home button twice. As far as I know I didn't do or change anything.

Does anyone have any idea why this happened and how to restore the previous action?

 

[B. Diddy]

Do you remember what app would show up when you double-pressed Home? Was it Google Discovery, or Samsung Free, or Flipboard, or something else?

Samsung Free recently changed to Samsung News, so maybe that might be a reason why the functionality changed?

Also, your sig says you're using an S6 -- is that what you're seeing this on, or the S21 ?

 

[PsychDoc]

Yikes, I had no idea my signature still had the S6. Yes, this is for the S21U which is my current phone. I don't know what app brought up the news stories. I assume it was something related to Google. And those articles were tailored to my interests as whenever I saw something I was interested in I'd hit the 'heart' icon and I'd see more articles dealing with that subject in the future.

I'm at a loss to understand why this changed and I'd really like to get it back.

 

[PsychDoc]

Here is an example of what I used to see. I got here by going to my Chrome home page.

 

[B. Diddy]

That looks like the Google Discover interface. Do you get that if you swipe to the screen left of the main homescreen?

 

[mustang7757]

Go to settings>apps>default apps>tap digital assistant>tap. Device assistant app where I circled and choose Google

 

[PsychDoc]

Turns out it was a Nova setting in "gestures and inputs." I had to set to home button action to the Google app.

Thank you guys so much though. You are an amazing resource.

 

[PsychDoc]

Oops, it had to be Google News, not just Google.

 

[mustang7757]

Ahh you were using Nova launcher