How does one disable a live tile?

[Windows Central Question]

how does one disable a live tile?

on a windows 8.1 phone

 

[Guytronic]

Re: how does one disable a live tile?

If the app itself doesn't have options to kill tile updating in it's setting then stop the app in the background settings by disallowing it.
If all else fails reduce the tile to the minimum size on the homescreen.