How to Hide Snapchat Discover section and Live events - Snapchat Updates

This post is specially created on How to Hide Snapchat Discover section to help our readers with the new updates. Snapchat one of the hottest social networking app on the planet at the moment is making users freaking out over a new updates. Snapchat is taking some drastic steps to make sure you know about Discover,  the special section where chosen media partners (and Snapchat itself) post content for the app's millions of users. Snapchat on July 13,2015 updated its app with a redesigned Discover and Live Stories screen that sandwiches a very prominent shortcut to Discover partners right on top of the stories page.

Snapchat is trying hard to justify the $19 billion value being slapped on the company by private investors. In order to promote the Discover section, and get more hits for its media partners, Snapchat has made this drastic change and moved Discover to the top of the Stories section. Previously, Snapchatters would have had to click on a separate page in order to access the Discover content.

Depending on how you feel about Discover, the change could be somewhat annoying. The old Discover section is still around, so it's now in two places — with no way for users to toggle off the new (smarter) placement. It very much feels like Snapchat is trying to force this on users.

Snapchat Updates Receives Negative Feedback

Since its update, the app has received nearly 67,000 one-star reviews in Apple's App Store, criticizing the decision to place Discover and live events above other people's individual snap stories. The feedback is so negative that Snapchat's average review rating in the App Store has dropped from two-in-a-half to one-in-a-half stars.  And the last couple of updates don't seem to be making things better for the Snapchat team.

Snapchat Updates has causes problems on the phone

According to reviews and complaints on the app's page and various forums the latest Snapchat update delivers more than just a new look, the app drains the battery life for many iPhone and Android phone users. There are also complaints about about data usage and and memory consumption. 

How to Hide Snapchat Discover section and Live events

One of the common questions is how to hide the Snapchat Discover section.  The latest doesn't include an option to hide the Discover section and the Live events Section, the only option available for hiding Discover and Live events section is to Uninstall the Snapchat Update.  This downgrade to the older will give you better battery life, lower CPU usage and the old layout which you love using, but this might takes a little time. Please follow the step by step guide on how to uninstall the updates and use the older version.

For Android:

To uninstall updates and restore Snapchat app to the version that came  installed on your Android phone or tablet, follow the steps below:

Open Settings on your phone or tablet.

Select Applications.

Select Manage Applications.

Scroll through the list of applications and choose Snapchat.

Select Uninstall updates.

For iPhone:

1. Delete the app from your iPhone.

2. Connect your iPhone to the computer and open iTunes.

3. Do not update your apps in iTunes. Back up and sync your iPhone using iTunes.

4. When the sync is complete, click your iPhone in the left iTunes menu under DEVICES. Click the Apps tab at the top of the iTunes window. Find the app you wish to downgrade under Sync Apps.

5. Make sure the box is checked next to the app you wish to downgrade. Click the Apply button.

6.The old version of the application will be copied from your computer to the iPhone.

If you have already updated the application on your computer, or synced your iPhone before deleting the new version of the app you must follow this step first. Open the trash can or recycling bin and look for the older app version (this file will end with the suffix .ipa).

Drag the old app file into the iTunes window. iTunes will ask if you want to replace the app with an older version. Confirm and begin from step one above. If the old version is not in your trash can you cannot access the older version of the app.

This post was created on July 2015 and was last updated on June 7, 2018.

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Snapchat Discover Explained - How to Use Snapchat Discover

Snapchat the popular messaging app once popularly known for sexting has in its latest updates introduced Discover- a new feature that highlights stories and videos provided both by media publishers and by Snapchat's in-house team of journalists and videographers. The new service is ad-supported, with Snapchat selling ads against media provided by networks such as ESPN, Vice, and CNN, as well as its own content.




Here is what Snapchat Team has say about this Discover on their blog.
Snapchat Discover is a new way to explore Stories from different editorial teams. It’s the result of collaboration with world-class leaders in media to build a storytelling format that puts the narrative first. This is not social media.

Social media companies tell us what to read based on what’s most recent or most popular. We see it differently. We count on editors and artists, not clicks and shares, to determine what’s important.

Discover is different because it has been built for creatives. All too often, artists are forced to accommodate new technologies in order to distribute their work. This time we built the technology to serve the art: each edition includes full screen photos and videos, awesome long form layouts, and gorgeous advertising.

Discover is new, but familiar. That’s because Stories are at the core - there’s a beginning, middle, and end so that editors can put everything in order. Every edition is refreshed after 24 hours - because what’s news today is history tomorrow.

Discover is fun and easy to use. Tap to open an edition, swipe left to browse Snaps, or swipe up on a Snap for more. Each channel brings you something unique – a wonderful daily surprise!

How to Access Snapchat Discover?

To access this new feature, swipe to the left from the main screen where you'd normally go to view Stories posted by your friends. In the top-right corner is a new, circular button that launches the Discovery screen. Tap to open a channel, swipe left to skim through Snaps, and swipe up on a Snap to learn more. There are awesome videos and articles waiting underneath each top Snap!

Using Discover- How to Use Snapchat Discover?

Discover is a fun new way to explore Stories from different editorial perspectives. It is composed of up to 11 unique channels, one for each publisher, plus a Snapchat channel. These daily editions include 5-10 hand-curated stories that refresh every 24 hours.


To use Discover, tap the icon in the upper-right hand corner on the Stories screen, or just swipe left on the Stories screen:

Tap on a channel to see its daily edition. Each daily edition will have ~5-10 stories hand curated by that channel. Each channel's edition will refresh daily.

A top Snap within an edition is the building block of a story.You can swipe up on a top Snap to see videos, pictures, and more.

Swipe to advance to the next story, or pull down to close the channel's edition.

How to Subscribe to a Snapchat Publisher Stories

Subscribing to a Stories is quite simple, if you want to follow or subscribe to a particular Stories and see it on your Stories page every day, below is the step by step by guide;
 1. Open your Snapchat and open the Stories screen by tapping on the three rings icon which is at the bottom right corner of the screen or just swipe right and it will take you to the Discover screen.
2. Look for stories that interests you, once you found Press and hold on a Publisher Story.
3. Tap on the ‘Subscribe’ button and you’ll see  a ✔️ when you’re subscribed to that story.

How to unsubscribe Snapchat Story:

1. Open the Stories screen like the above mentioned steps, and swipe down to the Publisher Story you wish to unsubscribe from the Stories.
2. Press and hold on that Story.
3. From the pop up, Tap on ‘Subscribed’ and see that the ✔️ will change to a little bookmark symbol which indicates that you are no longer subscribed to that Story.

The best thing about Discovery is that if you're concerned about the content that currently appears in a specific Discover Edition,you can always let them know. Make sure to specify the name of the Discover channel and describe the issue in detail, so that they will able to address issue.

This post originally published on 11th March, 2015 and updated on July 16, 2017.

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How to subscribe Snapchat Discover Channels

Snapchat latest updates June 7,2016 has added a new feature - the ability to subscribe to publisher's channel on Discover section. This is an attempt to attempt to boost the company’s primary revenue stream and also an aim to increase views of publishers’ content on it’s Discover section.

The update makes the app look a little more magazine-like and changes in the icons now clearly indicating that the left most view is for chatting, and the right side view is for Stories.


This update mean that Snapchat will now allows publishers to include an image and a headline to promote story. Live Stories, which are often more popular than publishers’ stories, will now live alongside on both the Stories and Discover page.To subscribe to Snapchat Discover Channels follow the instructions below;

Here’s how to use Snapchat Discover

1. Swipe left on the Stories screen to open Discover.
2. Tap a channel that sparks your interest!
3. Tap the screen, or swipe left to skip to the next Snap.
4. Many Snaps include an article or video below them! Swipe up on a Snap you’re interested in to see more.
5. Pull down to exit a channel.

How to subscribe Snapchat Discover Channels

There’s a channel for almost everything on Snapchat, whether you’re looking for relationship advice 💏, headline news 📰, amazing photos 📷, or something else!



1. Open the Stories screen, or swipe over to Discover
2. Press and hold on a channel you’re interested in
3. Tap ‘Subscribe’
4. We’ll confirm with a ✔ that you’ve subscribed!

Pro Tip: Still trying to decide if a channel is worthy of a subscription? At the end of every edition, you’ll have the option to swipe up to ‘Subscribe’ to that channel.

How to unsubscribe Snapchat Discover Channels

1. Open the Stories screen
2. Swipe down to find the channel you want to unsubscribe from
3. Once identified, Press and hold on the channel
4. Tap ‘Subscribed.’ The icon will change to a bookmark if you’ve successfully unsubscribed.



Happy Snapping!