How to stop the Opera Mini News Updates on your lock screen Not to mention, the updates keep your phone on hyper-active mode, meaning they freeze and drain your battery faster. If you have the most recent version of Opera Mini running on your smartphone, then you know how annoying it gets when you want to unlock your phone and be met by multiple news updates on the screen.

While we do appreciate the effort to keep us updated, this feature is cumbersome and the fact you enabled it by default – without our explicit permission – makes it outright annoying. The recent versions of Opera Mini by default show users news updates right on the lock screen. Opera Mini has been a trusted internet partner for years, but lately, Opera Software is getting too ambitious. Were it not for Opera Mini, most users across Africa and emerging markets in Asia will be struggling to consume digital content online.

A message to Opera Software, you have a fine mobile browser with impressive data compression technology.

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