How to Pin Microsoft News Topics on Start as Live Tiles in Windows 10


The Microsoft News app is a preinstalled UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app in Windows 10 that delivers breaking news and trusted, in-depth reporting from the world's best journalists.

  • Microsoft's editors curate the most trusted, important, interesting and trending news
  • You choose which topics matter most to you.
  • Microsoft News updates you with notifications of breaking news, quickly and accurately, 24/7
  • Sync your preferences across the app and the Web.

Microsoft News works in partnership with hundreds of publishers in dozens of countries globally. Select from editions in more 20 countries, carrying content from 3,000 top brands.

Microsoft News makes it easy to for you to keep informed, to intuitively move from story to story, and from section to section. The clean design lets you read articles without clutter, with useful features like a dark mode for nighttime reading. The app is free to download and use with no limits on how many articles or videos you can view.

The Microsoft News app on Windows 10 now supports secondary Live Tiles. You can now pin any topic of interest from the Microsoft News app to your Start menu as a Live Tile.

Live Tiles are a handy feature to track breaking news throughout the day letting you follow specific topics, so that you can keep abreast of developing reports in your industry and track your favorite interests — right from your Start menu.

This tutorial will show you how to pin and unpin topics from the Microsoft News app on the Start menu as a Live Tile for your account in Windows 10.


Contents

  • Option One: Pin Microsoft News Topic to Start menu as Live Tile
  • Option Two: Unpin Microsoft News Topic Live Tile from Start menu



EXAMPLE: Microsoft News topic (ex: "Sports") pinned to Start menu as Live Tile
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OPTION ONE

Pin Microsoft News Topic to Start menu as Live Tile


1 Open the Microsoft News app.

2 While on the Today page, click/tap on topic (ex: "Sports") you want to pin to Start as a Live Tile to open and select the topic. (see screenshots below)

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3 Click/tap on the Pin button on the toolbar, and click/tap on Pin "<topic>" to Start menu. (see screenshot below)

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4 Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (see screenshot below)

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OPTION TWO

Unpin Microsoft News Topic Live Tile from Start menu


1 Open the Start menu .

2 Right click or press and hold on the Live Tile for the Microsoft News topic (ex: "Sports") you want to unpin, and click/tap on Unpin from Start. (see screenshot below)

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That's it,
Shawn


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