Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

Noapple11 wrote:

After reading this thread I noticed that most people dislike this feature.

It's not surprising that most of the people in this (very short) thread would dislike the feature. People are more likely to complain than they are to praise. The fact that there are very few of these threads and they are all very short indicates that you're most likely in a minority. But, you are absolutely entitled not to like the feature.

What doesn't make sense is that people, when it has been explained to them that 1) there is currently no way to turn the feature off and 2)Apple isn't reading here, they keep posting, expecting some apparently magical solution. Currently, you cannot get what you want so, there is no solution to post.

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.

I really hate this feature 🤬🤬🤬.

In iPad with no sim card (iPadOS 13), To turn off the iMessage in settings then contacts in share sheet will be disapear.

but iOS not working. (My phone is iPhoneXS)

Yes good point, we can get rid of the contacts list in the share sheet by switching off iMessage - Apple is giving us a good reason to stop using iMessages, I’m going to do that for now at least, and I may never go back to iMessages if I find that one of the many alternatives is better. Apple, you may have shot yourself in the foot over this issue!

Like everyone else said previously, a horrible feature. I will be reporting this issue to the apple feedback page (http://www.apple.com/feedback/) and so should anyone else who has similar complaints.

Dear apple engineers,

Like everyone else said previously, please make this an option you can toggle off/on. Not something everyone wants.

You are not speaking to Apple, or its engineers here.

Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

The only way I found to get rid of it was to delete EVERY. SINGLE. MESSAGE. I had ever received from anybody.

The weird thing was most of the suggestions were people with whom I rarely have any contact. I regret updating to iOS 13. I cannot downgrade to iOS 12 and so now I am stuck having to delete every message I receive. Really makes one questions Apple’s planning.

It’s appalling they would implement a bizarre and unwelcome feature without a toggle to turn it off.

It also makes inadvertent shares much more likely.

Even if it takes multiple steps to accidentally share, it takes up valuable real-estate on a very limited area for a feature many do not even want and that those who want it, want to have control who is on there.

And even with multiple steps its disconcerting for any user to see your boss's or coworkers contact on there, one fat finger away ... It's just not a friendly feature.

rockstar1000 wrote:

Please, Apple, give us the option to disable this horrendous feature. (More like bug than feature, actually)

Apple is not reading here for suggestions. If you want them to know how you feel, use the feedback link provided above. The more people who comment there, the more likely this is be something that Apple pays attention to.

I have the same problem, the contacts suggestion over whatsapp and telegram appears unwelcome.

i tried to log out the telegram app in my case and the contacts suggestion disappear when “share” button touch

Hi, this issue is indeed very annoying and it is very frustrating that apple still ignores it.

The best thing you can now do is sending a feedback to apple:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I sent my feedback now and you should do the same. Only after apple will get many feedbacks concerning this annoying feature, they may fix it.

15 Minutes Workaround: write some words to that bot and banking messages. Take that bots in your contact book („google verification“, „bank verification“) and you have „actual conversations“. About 10% of these bots accept replies, the other 90% are sent errors. (Pingdom, Tier Scooter, Adobe 2FA are cool with replies)

If you cant find enough bots, just write happy christmas to your whole family and keep your sharing screen clean from business contacts during the holidays 😉