Get rid of "What's New"
Please Sony give us a way to opt out of "What's New" . When I slide my finger up from home to launch Google Now I have to be careful not to open "What's New". We have Google Play Store, we know what apps we want, we don't need this! Don't force it on us!
PS: I know that you can get rid of that by rooting but that means (at this moment) unlocking the bootloader, which means losing the warranty. I'm not prepared to do that on a 600-650 euros device. Not to mention a lot of people who can't unlock the bootloader even if they want to.
As I understand, it's not possible to disable or remove "What's new" for the moment. And unfortunately, I have no information when or if this will be possible in the upcoming future.
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