Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

You can toggle this on or off.....

go into settings

Siri & Search

Under Siri suggestions deselect the option “suggestions when sharing”

hope that helps

Hello All,

I have a solution to this issue, and it is real - but first I am going to put on my flame proof hat, because I only found my way here because I was looking for a way to turn this feature back ON ha ha!

Basically after an update my share suggestions stopped displaying iMessage and their suggested contacts. I could only see suggested contacts from Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger etc and wanted to re-enable iMessage.

To cut a long story short you need to go to Settings --> Siri & Search, scroll down and you will see a list of all apps on your phone. If you choose Messages (for example) you will see some options with switches. If you switch off the first two options (Show Siri Suggestions in App & Learn from this App) you will no longer get iMessage suggestions when sharing. Do the same for all other apps (or at least those you don't want to see) and voila! The answer to this problem is presented.

Alternatively you could just turn off the Siri suggestions all together.

Anyway I hope that helps!

[Edited by Moderator]

For now the only workaround to turning off the contacts from appearing in the iOS 13 share sheet is to individually delete their Message threads from the Messages app.

It seems to work, look 👇

To remove the AirDrop contacts, you will need to go into your Control Center > AirDrop and change from Contacts Only or Everyone to Recieving Off.

Source: https://www.saintlad.com/remove-contacts-in-ios-13-share-sheet/

FJR030 wrote:

Please give the user the ability to control what apps/FB show in the share screen. I’m looking for the same answer. Did anyone find out anything?

You cannot do that at this time. You can let Apple know you'd like to see them make such a change here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Westcarver wrote:

I have a Iphone 8 plus with version 13.4.1 ..I too when i pull up the share have a line of VK personal contacts that I have sent things to accidently and also I don't want people seeing this ..most are contacts i never use.. How do I get rid of it?please

You can’t turn it off.

Don’t confirm that a wrong contact is who you want to send something to.

All Apple apps require a second step to “accidentally” share something.

if you use a third party app that does not, contact them.

Force touch the contact you want to no longer appear in sharing, select “suggest less”

i didn't call you names, i merely questioned your sanity and your motivations ...

where are the mods to just lock this thread and stop wasting everyone's time ?

you can't turn off suggested message contacts in the share menu ... that's it .... but the thread goes on like rasputin because you guys just don't give up

it's both funny and profoundly weird at the same time

Not going to read through all the replies the fix for me was removing text messages from the favorites tab.

safari web page - share button- more-edit-under favorites- swipe left- remove messages

turned off phone. When share tab is available on safari, contacts will still be there but when you tap on them nothing happens. Nothing is sent/accidentally sent. Worked for me!!!

KrazyCat wrote:

or just a freaking switch to turn it on or off

Submit your feedback to Apple. No one here can give you what you want.

sergi288 wrote:

June 2020 and this feature is still on. And it's terribly annoying not being able to remove it. At least having an option of enable or disable it.

Have you submitted feedback to Apple?

Hi,

Delete the contact then add him again, after that the contract will not appear in the share sheet.

It worked with my Iphone 11 Pro on IOS 13.3.

You can make this go away by turning off contact syncing in all your accounts - iCloud, Google, etc. Of course, now you can’t tell who your contacts are, but it works as a temporary fix at least.

You may have turned the top level option off, but have you drilled into the individual apps and checked settings?

What can I say, if I turn off Messages and Whatsapp then they no longer appear.

This feature is dangerous, unhelpful, and lacks privacy control. I also often share my screen (either on a large audience display or sometimes just on my device while sitting with a smaller group of people). It is not right that my suggested contacts are immediately visible to all. Furthermore it creates a big risk of sending the wrong picture to the wrong person. This is actually enough to force me off the apple ecosystem. Very sloppy and poorly designed feature.

Noapple11 wrote:

Do you want people to believe that Apple doesn't know about this? 😁😅😂

The more people who explicitly request that Apple bring the feature back, the more likely it is to happen. Apple tracks suggestions made to them through the provided channels. They don't track complaints here.

Of course, if you just want to spend your time complaining here, where it doesn't actually do any good, where Apple doesn't read, that's up to you.