Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

I need it in my business, but thanks for your not helping answer!

Be that as it may.

If you use a consumer level tool for business purposes, adjusting your business model is less effort than expecting the consumer level tool to be changed to fit your business model.

If you were a contractor who needs to carry 20 sheets of drywall at a time, would you go to the manufacturer of the Mini Cooper automobile you own and ask them to alter their car to meet your truck needs?

Message to admin. Stop spamming me with you notifications and unsubscribe me from your thread or I‘ll report you to appropriate regulatory authority. This is your last warning.

And you're telling me this because?

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Apple is not reading here. You can keep submitting feedback if you wish. However, based on what I'm seeing on these forums, the number of people who don't like this feature is comparatively small so, it's unlikely that there will be enough feedback to make Apple change this feature that many find very useful.

It's also notable that this was a feature that was lauded as a favorite by most tech reviewers upon the release of iOS 13; I know it saves me innumerable taps every single day.

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

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.

I nearly just sent the ‘I play Pokemon go everyday’ song to my boss.

Proving that awareness and paying attention are key elements to using this feature successfully on an iOS device.

Thanks for contributing.

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?

I've just run into this 'share sheet' debacle with contact names and images being present in an area of my iPad Pro's interface that has proven to be awkward. I use my iPad often in a work environment, and more often this issue pops up. This is 1. a privacy issue, and 2. an unnecessary space-sucker.

I completely agree with many here that this 'feature' needs to go OR provide a way to turn it off completely in the Settings panel. ASAP. Next update.

Thank you

Sprocket 999 wrote:

I completely agree with many here that this 'feature' needs to go OR provide a way to turn it off completely in the Settings panel. ASAP. Next update.

Did you submit feedback to Apple?

Just adding my voice to the, ‘why can’t we turn this off?’, conversation. In my case it’s FB messenger which dominates that stream. Serously frustrating as I have difficulty with my hands and very concerned I might accidentally share something.

In latest whatsapp version these stupid share sheet contacts are back again. Last time when they tried to bring that to WA, their support answered that this is a feature of phone manufacturer, please contact them. I am not using Telegram, but I understood that at least they have implement on/off switch to overcome this privacy issue? And yes, i have sent several tickets to apple support about this already.

I find this as well pretty concerning. It is too imple to send out confidential information by mistake to people that you have lately communicated with. I agree that this could be a reason to change plattforms.

For now most of my communication is anyway Whatsapp based and I can just delete the discussions in this Apple App, but it is pretty ugly workaround.

Please allow us to disable this in the settings!!!

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!

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Thanks for the insight. I've had all that Siri & Search stuff turned off the first day I picked up my iPad Pro. It still is turned off, yet the junk keeps adding. So your solution hasn't worked for me, I'm afraid. I hope you're right that Apple is, at least, going to provide an option to turn on or off this feature, as I'm sure many like it. I don't, and simply want to turn this off.

I started by shutting off all of the individual apps first, then I threw the 'master switch' and shut the whole thing down (Siri & Search). All options are grey ghosts. But just throwing the master switch will shut everything off. Or it's supposed to. (I remember days in the 90's when a lingering and corrupt preference would cause gremlins.-LOL!)

All the same—didn't work for me, but MAYBE iOS14 will fix it. It's still possible YOU have a linger preference file from your beta try. ;-)

Thanx!