How to Turn Off Background Images in Brave Browser

Brave Browser is one of the best privacy oriented browsers currently available. The Chromium-based web browser is available on multiple platforms. And it has a bunch of useful features that you won't find on other browsers. The browser displays background images on the new tab page. These images are submitted by members of the Brave community. And the images are selected by the browser design team. At the moment, there are 16 background images and the developers have introduced a new sponsored image feature.

Although the update of the sponsored images has not yet arrived on Android. However, if you are not a big fan of the background images, you can turn them off. This shows that the team behind the browser really cares about the preferences of the user.

Disabling the background image option does not interfere with any other functionality. Therefore, you will be able to use the browser as usual. Additionally, disabling the background image option in Brave Browser will also disable sponsored images when it arrives on Android. You can also find out why you should upgrade to Brave Browser on Android. However, follow the steps below to turn off background images in Brave Browser on Android.

Steps to turn off background images in Brave Browser

It should be noted that once the update of the sponsored images arrives for Brave Browser on Android, you can also deactivate it separately. However, here's how to completely disable background images in Brave Browser.

1. launching Brave Navigator on your Android phone.
2. Press the 3 points icon located in the lower bar.
3. Now press settings and scroll down to Pin up Category.
4. Under Pin up Press on New Tab Page.
5. You should be able to see an option called Show background images.
6. Disable this option by pressing the label or the toggle switch.

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You will need to relaunch Brave Browser for the change to take effect. Just press Now restart to reopen the browser app. You can also press Later to continue your browsing session and restart the app later. After disabling background images in Brave Browser, you will no longer see images on the new tab page. Instead of images, you will only see a dark or light background depending on the theme of the browser.

If you want to activate the background images in the future, you can do so by following the same steps above. Although, rather than disabling the feature, you just need to activate it and restart the app. Background images in Brave Browser rotate automatically. Thus, you cannot define a single image to use in the background of the new tab page. Nevertheless, what do you think of the Brave Browser background images? Let us know in the comments below.

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