How do you delete group text suggestions on iOS 13?

It’s ridiculous. I now have hundreds and hundreds of group text message suggestions. It’s not helpful at all because you have to actually create a message to see who is in it. It NEEDS to go back to how it was before. The group should disappear once that group message is deleted. Apple! Please fix this!

This is a VERY annoying feature. Every time I type in the name for a single contact I get dozens of group suggestions from all the group texts that person has been in. It’s a useless and annoying feature that makes it hard to text. Is there any way apple can fix this???

I can see no benefit as to why Apple changed the ability to easily delete the group text suggestions. It has been almost 2 months since the original posting. Why has Apple not reverted this option back to the original method? In the meanwhile, we must muddle our way through the list and hope we do not inadvertently send a text to a group that we do not wish to have receive it.

can you pls help all of us and allow removal of the group contact suggestions. several of us have tried the suggestions provided and they are not working. your attention and help to this matter is appreciated!

Hello BigDadEWarbucks,

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities. It's understandable to want to be able to delete those suggestions.

As it turns out, you can only turn off suggestions completely in Settings > Contacts > Siri & Search. Turn off 'Show Siri Suggestions for Contacts' and 'Show in Search.'

You can also leave feedback about this feature here: Product Feedback - Apple

Best regards.

I have posted this question. I have reported it over and over. They truly don’t care. Everyone at my job has Android phones. I’m the only one that can’t text a group because of the hundreds of contacts. I have to text the manager to get her to respond to the group so I can talk. Another update today. And still no fix. I guess they’ll see when everyone leaves Apple.

Hi mate I have spent time on phone with apple but best reply i can get is we will look into it and a suggestion to leave feed back at apple.com/feedback.

Its ******* me off that the decision making is made by apple as to what we want not letting us choose how we send our texts.

Doesn’t look like Apple is interested in fixing as the issue has been ongoing. Android / Samsung the only current fix. Not even the obligatory Apple response of “we’ll look into it” anymore. So much for customer service.

I also think this is ridiculous! I called the Apple store near me to ask about this and they had no answer. This problem is just annoying enough to me that i will most likely go Android for my next phone upgrade. yeah...If there is no update fix for this problem, I’ll be switching.

I’m with you. I’ve been bringing this to them. They don’t care. The best answer I got... tell your job to use an app for texting so you can all get on the same page. Wtf! I can’t do group messaging because there’s so many old ones I can’t tell what group is what. It’s affecting my job terribly. If they don’t fix it soon I have no choice but to go android. It’s costing me my job.

Does Apple read these discussions and see that this is a major issue that lots of people care about having fixed? We aren’t asking for a new feature, we are asking for it to be returned to the way it was in iOS 12.

This is the worse "improvement" that they have done thus far and I started with them with a iPhone 4 and now have the X, Usually when they goof they have been timely in fixing such issues but on this one from the waiting and digging to find others who are not happy with it, it seems they don't intend to fix it. To me this is huge news of a huge error in judgement. We need to keep these post from getting too old that comments are not allowed but you can start a new post.

I'm on board with everyone. I hate that I can't delete these suggestions like in the past. I type the letter "M" and tons of numbers/suggestions come up for ppl I don't even know that I suppose a contact included on some previous group text.

You are correct about a contact you have sent a group to you and is now yours. That person might have deleted their group on an android phone. And now you are stuck with it until Apple fixes in a long over due update.