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Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

I need to be able to remove the list of suggested contacts on the top row of the "share sheet" in Safari and other iOS 13 applications. In just the past week since I switched to iOS 13, I've had a couple accidental shares; moreover, sometimes I present the contents of my screen to an audience, and I do not want them to see my frequent contacts. Finally, most of the suggested contacts are not contacts I would use anyways and are actually in frequent. This create some awkward circumstances an accidental sharing possibilities that can result from an accidental tap or brush with the screen. (Please see attached image from a similar request from another discussion group.) Thank you for your answers.




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Posted on Oct 2, 2019 5:01 PM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2019 6:38 AM

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.

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Dec 6, 2019 5:46 AM in response to Noapple11

After reading this thread I noticed that most people dislike this feature. Only this and other person here “really like it to”.

It is believed there are over a billion active Apple accounts, so neither of these "numbers" reflect reality. This community represents a small portion of either camp.


also noticed that Apple deleted posts of people who disliked it

Apple hosts remove posts that do not follow the terms of the community. It's more how you voice your dislike over that you voice your dislike that gets your post removed. Disagreement is fine as long as it meets community standards.


Now I don’t really know how useful Apple forums are, 2 people constantly posting same stuff but no solution.

This "forum" is a place to ask and have answered technical sup[port questions. Apple does not necessarily provide "solutions" here. If we volunteers here do not know the answer to a posed question, it may not get answered.


This would explain why emerging issues don't always get resolved here.

Dec 6, 2019 7:17 AM in response to Noapple11

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.

Dec 6, 2019 9:29 AM in response to lcascio

You're certainly entitled to waste your time in any way you see fit. It's one of the best things about being a grown up. Personally, I don't see what good it does, other than misery loves company, to know that other people agree with your dislike of this feature. But, you do you.


I was, however, responding to a specific post who was complaining about the fact that they weren't getting a solution here. That poster seemed to object to the fact that people were posting saying they liked the feature as well.

Dec 6, 2019 2:11 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

IdrisSeabright wrote:

You're certainly entitled to waste your time in any way you see fit. It's one of the best things about being a grown up. Personally, I don't see what good it does, other than misery loves company, to know that other people agree with your dislike of this feature. But, you do you.

I was, however, responding to a specific post who was complaining about the fact that they weren't getting a solution here. That poster seemed to object to the fact that people were posting saying they liked the feature as well.

From what I can see here 3 people here score points by distribution of philosophical nonsense. It has nothing to do with the subject other than trolling.

Dec 6, 2019 2:58 PM in response to Noapple11

This is a good thread as (1) it's good to understand how important this is to other people, which we cannot see just by logging into the feedback black hole. We've all logged into the feedback already. And (2) someone may come up with a work-around. So there is value to this thread to be able to communicate a fix out should someone find one.


The thing I don't understand is why people who have no interest in this topic, come on this thread to knock people who are posting on here? Why not ignore it if you don't care about this topic?

Dec 6, 2019 5:40 PM in response to Noapple11

Noapple11 wrote:

From what I can see here 3 people here score points by distribution of philosophical nonsense. It has nothing to do with the subject other than trolling.

The only way to get points on this forum is for the original poster of the thread to award them.


Explaining to you that you will not get a solution that you want here is not philosophical nonsense. It's a simple statement of fact.

Dec 6, 2019 5:41 PM in response to lcascio

lcascio wrote:

This is a good thread as (1) it's good to understand how important this is to other people, which we cannot see just by logging into the feedback black hole.

I'm still curious as to how that helps you.

The thing I don't understand is why people who have no interest in this topic, come on this thread to knock people who are posting on here? Why not ignore it if you don't care about this topic?

The fact that I disagree with you doesn't mean I have no interest in the topic. Quite the contrary.

Dec 6, 2019 9:51 PM in response to yuvalnof

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

If you are concluding they are "ignoring it" because Apple has not spoken here, that's why we volunteers here continue to point that out to the endless "me-too" posters. This community is not where Apple addresses issues such as this.


They may also be ignoring it because they do not feel there is anything to fix, resolve, change and so on.


Again, they will not come here and state that.

Dec 22, 2019 1:22 AM in response to jjmck

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 😉

Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

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