Why does Siri Suggestions suggest contacts in my phone that I have had no contact with whatsoever?

So the rundown is that my Siri suggestions keeps suggesting contacts for me that I do not and have not had contact with for years. My girlfriend saw this and I dont have an explanation because all I can say is that I haven't talked to these people. It's kind of stupid to say, but this is getting in the way of my 9 month relationship with my girlfriend so it's starting to tick me off a little bit. Can anyone tell me why Siri would do this?


One of these contacts was imported from Facebook a long time ago, and I do not even log onto Facebook often anymore. I logged on recently to see if they made contact with me, but they did not. Facebook has been deleted from my phone for months now messenger and all.


So please can someone help me and tell me what's going on? Or is Siri just a jealous girl and is trying to ruin my otherwise happy relationship?

Posted on Jun 8, 2019 9:20 PM

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Jun 8, 2019 9:20 PM in response to read48

  • Apple calls it Siri’s Proactive Intelligence
  • - where Siri tries to predict what you would want to do next, and
  • suggests you even before you make a request. But how does it predict
  • that you should text someone, when you have not spoken to the person for
  • weeks?
  • Siri does have access to your Whatsapp. Does that mean
  • Siri is snooping on all the conversations that you are having with your
  • contacts? While it very well can and might actually be true, the actual
  • reason seems much more simpler than that.
  • Siri has access to
  • your Whatsapp data, which includes your Data and Storage Usage. Siri is
  • very likely using this data to understand your texting pattern.
  • Let’s discuss the person Siri is suggesting you call or text.
  • Did you text each other a lot earlier and have recently stopped
  • talking? Siri very likely selects the contact who you have texted the
  • most and suggests you - even when you have stopped texting each other
  • recently.
  • This means you have to either surpass the total number
  • of whatsapp messages you sent to this person with another person, OR,
  • to confuse the Siri algorithm; just go to your Whatsapp Settings delete
  • the Storage usage information

How does Siri suggest contacts

Why does iPhone suggest who to text?

  • Siri suggests who to text in an attempt to help you tap and start texting conveniently.
  • The
  • main notion of Siri is that it is predicting that this is exactly what
  • you may want to do - based on your history (as per the Apple website).


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