Samsung Galaxy S5 How to deactivate CB messages?

If you receive CB messages on your Samsung Galaxy S5, which you want to turn off we would like to show you in our guide how to proceed. At first: CB stands for Cell broadcast and it is a chance of your provider to send messages to a group of smartphones, which are logged in a specific cell tower. The most messages you will receive via Cell Broadcast are marketing messages of your mobile operator.

To disable CB messages on the Samsung Galaxy S5 please complete the following steps:

Open Menu -> Settings -> Section "Applications" -> Cell Broadcast

In this submenu you will find a button in the top right. Turn it from "On" to "Off". You have now deactivated Cell Broadcast Messages on your Samsung galaxy S5 and will not receive CB Messages in future.

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