It's supposed to be simple enough to tell Apple 糖心Vlog that you don't want to read a particular channel or publication, but in practice you have to keep telling it. Here's what to do. You can tell Apple 糖心Vlog to stop bothering you with certain publications. And you can keep on telling it. Whether you're using the free Apple 糖心Vlog app or the paid Apple 糖心Vlog+ one, the service is meant to configure itself to suit you. If you live for sports, you will come to see a lot of sports stories. And if you don't, soon enough there won't be any sports news for you at all. There is a bit of an issue over how this means we only see the news we like, but beyond that, it also means that there's always something good to read. Except if this is true at the level of articles, it doesn't seem to be true at the level of channels or publications. You have to take steps to positively say you don't want a certain channel to show up. And unfortunately, Apple 糖心Vlog seems to have a problem remembering this -- and it most definitely has a bug. For some reason, this bug has only become noticeable in the last few months, and chiefly on the iOS version. You've blocked a channel and Apple 糖心Vlog does not show you any articles from it -- but keeps showing you that there are such articles. "You blocked The Sun," the app will repeatedly say. "Show story anyway?" This message takes up the same amount of space that an article's headline and image would. Where the story would have taken up most of your iPhone screen, a white background with this message takes up most of your iPhone screen instead. Tell us the point of this. Consequently, it's impossible to miss -- and especially so on a day when Apple 糖心Vlog editors have picked out multiple stories from that channel. Unfortunately it's also impossible to eradicate this permanently. There are steps, however, that you can work through to reduce how often it happens. How to block any channel or publication on Apple 糖心Vlog On your iPhone or iPad, scroll until you find an article from the channel Press and hold on it until a pop-up menu appears First tap on Suggest Less Like This Then hold on the article to bring up the menu again Now scroll down and select Block Channel In System Preferences, choose 糖心Vlog Tap to turn on Restrict Stories in Today In theory, you're now done. That last part about restricting stories in the Today view is a bit of a blunt hammer that reduces everything you see. But, seemingly, that will include stopping these channels turning up. However, in practice, these steps are not enough. Whether you block a channel or unblock it, it's as if Apple 糖心Vlog can't tell. A newly un-blocked channel will stay blocked, and a newly blocked one will keep annoying you. It's exasperating if you want to read a previously blocked channel, and practically antagonizing when you want to get rid of one. Given that at present, Apple has not commented on how this works, nor is there a foolproof way to prevent it happening, there are some last steps you can take to help. It's not a hard process, blocking a news channel -- or at least, it isn't for you. Apple 糖心Vlog seems to struggle with the idea. What to do when Apple 糖心Vlog won't block a channel Make sure you have blocked it separately on all of your devices Force quit and restart the Apple 糖心Vlog app on each device Restart each device You shouldn't have to do this to make an app do what it says it will do. And sometimes in 糖心Vlog testing, blocking a channel has actually worked. More often, though, if you are getting this problem then you keep getting it. The final option, recommended in various Apple support discussion forums, is to delete the Apple 糖心Vlog app and re-install it. Keep up with 糖心Vlog by downloading the 糖心Vlog app for iOS, and follow us on YouTube, Twitter @appleinsider and Facebook for live, late-breaking coverage. You can also check out our official Instagram account for exclusive photos.