Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

Peter Melon wrote:

This such a pain when doing screen video capture and not want to explode recent contacts, a choice of modification or to switch it off is highly required on the next iOS update! Please save our days!

You should tell Apple. Th feedback link has been provide further up the thread.

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.

But what about people spending their time complaining about people complaining on here ...

it’s good to see the community of people who are unhappy with the new share feature and people put workarounds here too - very helpful!

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!

I completely agree with all the comments on this thread. Random contacts popping up is an unwelcome intrusion and feels like it is primed for embarrassing content sharing.

this is based on the premise that all sharing is good and it is not. Incredible poor ux design from a supposedly world leading brand that is unaware of the ways individuals use their browsers, save and share.

Emma0928 wrote:

I completely agree with all the comments on this thread. Random contacts popping up is an unwelcome intrusion and feels like it is primed for embarrassing content sharing.

this is based on the premise that all sharing is good and it is not. Incredible poor ux design from a supposedly world leading brand that is unaware of the ways individuals use their browsers, save and share.

The problem here is you assume the way you use your device and what you want to see is how all people use their device.

Several reviewers have lauded Apple for this new feature, and in general many users like it and the convenience it provides.

Certainly I think it's great when I just need to tap a contact in the share sheet rather than dig up their information via Contacts.

I completely agree Apple should remove this complicated way of sharing or at least give us the ability to simplify it or moreover personalize it. My suggestions would be on/off switches in settings for: airdrop devices in sharing, contact suggestions in sharing. Also, maybe a way to manually sort and favorite options per app. I suspect it’s not only me that would like the option to have in some apps custom set sorted options/apps, setup once and forget. Like in entertainment media based apps I would like to save to files or photos in my funny collection but when I am using pages for example I want to save the file to dropbox. The sharing switches are absolutely a requirement.

My problem is a little different. Was in a group message with two other iPhone users arhat are in contacts. Deleted message conversation but their icon/numbers still show up in share sheet. No other contacts are there. Others disappear as expected when conversation is deleted. I even deleted them from my contacts. All that did was change their name to a number. If I resend a message via the share sheet to them 8 end up with two frequent icons in the row. I delete conversion and o my the new contact deleted. Leave I g the other. BYW... It is not showing up on iPad. Just iPhone. Frustrating.

I felt that some ppl here are not just expressing their own opinions but they try to defend on the feature which is not everyone’s desired to have as default.

I understand that some people love to have that feature and happy to see you guys in a better experience with it. But here is to be clear that ppl who are complaining about the feature that isn’t useful one and could be made worse for some ppl out there. So, we here complaining about it based on own experience and just asking an option to be able to hide it upon user choice.

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?

HzKidd wrote:

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?

If I say I like the feature or find it useful, that's just as valid an opinion as yours that it's a terrible feature.

HzKidd wrote:

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?

That kind of configurability is not something Apple often supplies.

As folks have mentioned on here as a workaround, it might be an idea for an app that would cycle contacts (deleting and recreating). Some kind of "cleaner" app.

It really is life-invasive for Apple to automatically suggest share contacts for us for that hot link or picture we want to discretely send our significant other.

your response is silly, people just don't share the same stuff to siblings and parents as they might to close friends and partners

you appear to be saying "don't make a mistake" ... alright, ok, good advice, i'll try not to make a mistake

nevertheless, it would seem a simple "feature" to simply allow user discretion as to suggested sharing or not

That it would be embraced as it has been by almost all critics reviewing iOS 13 as a beneficial and useful new feature?

I get it, you don’t like it, but many people love it.

As far as giving people a choice to share, all Apple apps put you into a compose window, they don’t instantly share the content.

KrazyCat wrote:

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

So, what do you think would happen to the interface if Apple never removed a feature but just made every new feature something you could switch on or off?