Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

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.

since i don’t have a lot of contacts on my phone, i stopped syncing my contacts and remove them from my phone.

now, my contacts don’t appear on the share sheet. I just need to remember my contacts phone numbers like in the old days before cellphones hehe!

So, stop defending for it because we are not asking it to be completely removed but we all should have equally rights to choose which we want. Aren’t we?

Although some may "defend" the feature, as is their right... most are simply informing that this is not the most effective place for feedback to Apple.

So, we here complaining about it based on own experience

Not the purpose of this technical support community. Apple provides this as a place to ask and have answered, technical support questions. At present this feature is what it is and we have no answer.

Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/ is their preferred process.

fair enough, all we are asking for is the choice, the option ...

Fair enough.

As has been pointed out often... nobody here can make that happen. We are not Apple and Apple asks that Feedback be sent to the location below.

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

The mandate and purpose of this community to to ask and have answered, technical support questions.

Debating Apple's policies and decisions is not permitted.

lcascio wrote:

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lcascio wrote:

Change our behaviors because of Apple's choices in "features" that we don't want?

That's the way Apple does things and always has. Don't you remember when Mr. Jobs said that if people didn't hold the phone wrong, they wouldn't have a signal problem. Apple has always expected customers to adapt to the decisions Apple makes. Some people hate that, some people don't really mind.

That's quite an exaggeration. If people really thought or felt that way it would be scarily cult like. Eventually Apple will put in an option to turn off their invasive "suggested contacts" for the personal link or picture you want to share with someone.

It's not an exaggeration. Mr. Jobs really told people, on national television, if I recall, that there was nothing wrong with their phone's signal strength, they were just holding them wrong. Apple kept introducing products ( iPod, iPad) that people thought were a stupid idea, that no one would want and would never sell. Apple has kept removing things that people claimed were essential (SCSI port, floppy drives, optical drives). And, yes, some people's devotion to Apple is scarily cult-like.

If Apple decides to add such an option (I'm not at all convinced they will), it will be because, either it gets in the way of something Apple wants to do more or because an absolutely huge number of people complain.

Fixthispleaseplease wrote:

Now WhatsApp also inside the share sheet, it was useful for some people, but not all people right? Add something that we can customize ourself was too much?

Have you submitted that feedback to Apple?

Product Feedback - 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.

Apple will not answer such questions here.

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

The sharing icons are a standard part of iOS 13.

If you dislike it, notify Apple here:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

However, all Apple apps require two steps to share content; if I remember correctly WhatsApp erred in sharing contact after only a single tap.

This is NOT a desirable feature at all and can lead to embarrassing accidental sharing. How do we turn this off? I feel forced to look for an alternative to Safari now.

I’m looking for the same answer. Did anyone find out anything?

Tell Apple:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

It's just not a friendly feature.

As suggested

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

Nobody here can do anything about the feature.

I met the same behaviour with Telegram contacts.

The only action helped me is just reinstall the application. All Telegram contacts disappeared from the suggestions.

Feel free to suggest it to Apple here:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Unfortunately, posting suggestions accomplishes precisely nothing as we're all just fellow users here.

Thanks a lot! They made an option to remove share sheet in IOS14!

I tried and it actually worked!

Go to Settings > Siri & Search > Suggestions when Sharing (toggle off)