Lagging and slowing down of the Samsung devices as flipboard briefing was one up that could not get enough of background processing as it skimmed through articles to bring henceforth if it had previously failed to bring a couple forward when you needed them.

others claimed that it had even accidentally opened on third party launchers.

Battery drainage claims which had a couple of rounds on Reddit as one user who shared a screenshot remarked “ I’ve noticed that briefing has been showing up in the battery stats and taking on a considerable amount of power, second to only screen,screenshots” which had 10 upvotes and a couple of rounds on the platform.

Users had complaints(alarming) of accidental touches because it was just on the left side and you would accidentally summon it even with the slightest unintended touch.

The flipboard came with devices like the S6, s6 edge,S7, S7 edge,S8,S8 plus and the mid ranges of the time with the unpopular touchwiz and Samsung experience user interface, both predecessors of the One UI Home. Unlike the google feeds, flipboard had more articles for you that required no algorithm but were available through the app as long as they matched the interests you selected and had been published would be availed for your reading and required no simultaneous refreshing to present themselves. It would give you quite the span of topics ranging from politics,science, food,technology, fashion you name it and was accessible through the side drawer of your phone( where the Google feeds currently resides on One UI phones) with a swipe to the right of your phone screen. Flipboard was a dedicated news briefing side panel app which brought you “updates” of whats hot around the world depending on your preferences as you would select out what you would love to get in your news feed.

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