How to Disable the "While you were away" Feature on Twitter on iPhone or iPad

This wikiHow teaches you how to permanently remove the "While you were away" section from your Twitter feed, using an iPhone or iPad.

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Disabling While You Were Away

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    Open Twitter on your iPhone or iPad. The Twitter icon looks like a white bird in a blue square.
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    Tap your profile picture. Your picture is located in the upper-left corner of your screen. It will open your navigation panel on the left-hand side.
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    Tap Settings and privacy on the navigation panel. This will open your settings menu on a new page.
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    Tap Content preferences. This menu controls the content displayed on your feed.
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    Slide the Show the best Tweets first switch to
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    .     When this option is turned off, you won't see the "While you were away" section on your feed anymore.
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Disabling In Case You Missed It

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    Open Twitter on your iPhone or iPad. The Twitter icon looks like a white bird in a blue square.
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    Tap the Home icon. This button looks like a tiny house icon in the lower-left corner of your screen. It will open your Home feed.
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    Scroll down and find the "In case you missed it" section. This feature works like While You Were Away, but uses a different algorithm to select Tweets to show.
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    Tap the
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    button next to "In case you missed it."     Your options will pop out from the bottom of your screen.
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    Tap See less often on the pop-up menu. From now on, you won't see this section on your feed as much.
    • It's not possible to completely disable and remove the "In case you missed it" section, but when you see it on your feed, you can make it come up less often.
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Community Q&A

  • Question
    How do I do this on PC? There is no preference section on PC.
    Community Answer
    Community Answer
    You do not need to do this on your PC as most PC's do not have this.
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