Feeds are website updates that you can subscribe to in order to receive frequently updated content. The Feed Reader app on your phone, as well as the Loop, aggregates and displays this content in individual stories.
What types of feeds can I view on my phone?
Feeds can give you updates on news websites, blogs, the weather, your friends’ status on social networks, and more. You can subscribe to and view any kind of feed on your phone. Typically, feeds are grouped into:
• News (RSS/Atom) feeds
• Social network feeds (including your friends’ status messages and photo stories)
The All Feeds screen displays the feeds that you’ve subscribed to. On the screen to the right, Favorites, you can view stories from the feeds you’ve marked as favorites.
From the All Feeds screen, tap a feed to open the individual feed, then tap a story to open the individual story. The individual story screens differ depending on whether you’re viewing a social, photo, or news story.
Read more in “How do I subscribe to a feed?” on page 62 and “All Feeds screen” on page 64.
INDIVIDUAL FEED SCREEN
Social network feed INDIVIDUAL FEED SCREENNews (RSS) feed
Tap a social story to open it in the
story screen.
INDIVIDUAL STORY SCREEN
Tap a news story to open it in the story
story screen.
INDIVIDUAL STORY SCREEN
Tap a photo story to open it in the full-
screen photo viewer.FULL-SCREEN
How do I subscribe to a feed?
There’s more than one way to subscribe to a feed. One method subscribes a single feed and the other subscribes a group of feeds. Regardless of how you do it, newly-subscribed feeds are automatically favorited and so updated stories from these stories will appear in the Loop.
When you’re signed in to a social network, the social feeds from your friends (including fan pages) will automatically appear in the All Feeds and Favorites screens of your Feed Reader, as well as in the Loop.
Subscribe to an individual feed
1 From the Feed Reader, tap Add to go to the Browser, or go to the Browser directly from the Apps screen.
2 If you know the exact address to the feed, you can type that in the address bar and go to the feed directly. Otherwise, find a webpage with at least one feed.
3 On the webpage, look for the web feed icon , and tap the icon or the link to subscribe. If you have trouble selecting the icon, zoom in. Once you’ve gone to the feed (you’ll see the feed source code), you’ll be asked to confirm.
4 Tap ok to subscribe. Once subscribed, you’ll be taken to the Feed screen, where the feed stories are listed. The feed is automatically tagged as a favorite, so updated stories will appear in the Loop.
Subscribe to all feeds on a webpage
1 From the Feed Reader, tap Add to go to the Browser, or go to the Browser directly from the Apps screen.
2 Find a webpage with at least one feed.
4 Tap the star to show the Favorites menu.
5 Tap one of the following:
• Add to favorites - Adds the page to your favorite webpages, but doesn’t subscribe you to any feeds on the page.
• Pin to apps - Adds a link to the page to your Apps screen. In addition, this option subscribes you to all the feeds on the page, favorites them, so you’ll see updated stories from these feeds on the Loop.
• Add to loop - Subscribes you to all the feeds on the webpage, favorites them, so you’ll see updated stories from these feeds on the Loop.
If there are more than five feeds on the page you’ll be asked to confirm before you’re subscribed. If you do add all feeds on a page, you can always unsubscribe from any you don’t want by going to the Feed Reader. Read “How can I remove a feed from my phone?” below.
You can also subscribe to feeds from the Studio. Read more in “About the KIN Studio” on page 39.
How can I remove a feed from my phone?
You can unsubscribe from a feed while viewing it by tapping More > Unsubscribe. You can also unsubscribe from one or more feeds from the All Feeds screen by two-finger tapping to enter edit mode. Read more in “Unsubscribe from news feeds” on page 65.
Note: You can’t unsubscribe from social network feeds, but you can unfavorite them. Read more in “Favorites screen” on page 65.
How do I make feed stories appear on my center Home screen?
Feed stories that appear on the center Home screen, the Loop, are all from feeds you’ve chosen to be favorites. When you add (subscribe) to a feed, it’s favorited automatically, so updated stories from this feed will appear on the Loop. Social network feeds are favorited automatically as well.
You can always unfavorite a feed to remove it from the Loop, in which case it will still appear in the Feed Reader on the All Feeds screen. Read more in See “Favorite/unfavorite feeds” on page 66.
Tap the favorites star Favorites menu
Address bar
Note: When you unfavorite a feed, those feed stories already in the Loop will remain until they’re replaced with new favorite feed stories.
How can I tell if I have unread feeds?
On the All Feeds screen there will be a number indicator next to the feed source if you have any unread feed stories. On the Feed screen, unread stories are indicated with a colored bar along the left.
How often are the feeds refreshed?
In general, every time you go to the Feed Reader, all your feeds are refreshed, but not more than every five minutes. If you want to force a refresh, tap Refresh.
Individual feeds are refreshed when you tap a feed. Stories from your favorite feeds are refreshed when you go to the Favorites screen. This means you may need to wait a short while for your favorite feed stories to appear.