Turn off contacts in the iOS 13 Share Sheet

KrazyCat wrote:

i think it would be swell

Obviously, you didn't thing about it very logically. Settings would go on for pages and pages. And, the reality is that Apple has never been big on giving people choice. Mr. Jobs was big on giving people what he thought they should have, not what they said they wanted.

and read the darn thread which is 10 pages long and has 140 replies

clearly this is a "feature" that many people ... hate ...

Out of how many millions of people using iOS 13?

read the darn thread which is 10 pages long and has 140 replies

clearly this is a "feature" that many people ... hate ...

We have. We get it. Many, many people do not like the feature. As is your right.

Understood and accepted.

Does not alter the reality that nobody here can change it. You are bellowing to the wrong crowd.

Perhaps you should read and reach out to where your concerns are encouraged, welcomed and perhaps even will reach the correct audience.

This community is not that audience.

Please note Idris did not resort to name calling to make their point. Perhaps you can do the same.

Volunteers here are defending the process of providing Feedback in the advocated manner to Apple and asking you to think about the possibility that tens of millions of other users may actually like the feature. There are other people in the world.

That is not defending Apple.

Re: "there are roughly 850,000 iOS users that face this "issue"". I presume there are bunch of smart people who never updated to this bug, the other majority are never ever bothered to come to this website.

From my experience these forums are more fan boys talk that anything meaningful.

I presume there are bunch of smart people who never updated to this bug

Again with the name calling.

The number I quote are confirmed iOS users who are using iOS 13.

It is working as designed.

Your dissatisfaction does not turn it into a bug.

From my experience these forums are more fan boys talk that anything meaningful.

To suggest being calmly (and without the hyperbole, histrionics and childish name-calling) informed on how best to pursue your concerns in the desired manner by the very party you are ranting about is not meaningful tells me/us all we need to know.

Best of luck.

It's not an either/or to talk about the problem on this thread OR report it on Apple on the official feedback thread. Both serve a purpose and we should assume folks are reporting on the official Apple link as well. This thread is a great resource for the community to discuss workarounds.

What I don't get is why folks who like this feature are on this thread trolling people for asking about workarounds and/or venting about this issue. It doesn't make any sense.

William Kucharski wrote:

Use even a modicum of caution and this isn’t even an issue.

Perhaps don’t send anything that would be embarrassing if misdirected?

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

i was gonna let it go but have to do one more here ... this forum represents a tiny fraction of all apple users

whatever issues, problems and workarounds are discussed are very likely going to mirror the apple user community at large, so 140 replies to a thread means that a proportionate number of users ... who haven't spoken up at and don't even come near the forum ... are also likely to be bothered by the issue ... some quick math should tell us how many users are being driven nuts by this "feature"

finally i have been using these threads off and for years and always get a chuckle out of the number of users with very large collection of points and badges, who seem to delight in telling other users just exactly what apple ... won't ... do for its users and even resurrecting the name of the blessed st. jobs to swat the frustrated users down

rofl ...

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.

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.

LACAllen wrote:

How is informing you of options trolling?

You have added no new information since your original post (and even that was something someone else already contributed). That piece of information is that we should add feedback to the official Apple feature request page which is a good piece of information. Anyone finding this thread can get that piece of information now but reading the thread, yet certain folks remain on this thread, apparently for no other reason than to antagonize the people on here who are looking for workarounds to this problem, which is just really strange.

he workaround of paying attention was met with snorts of derision and anger. Other than using a 3rd party messaging app or switching to Android, it IS the ONLY known workaround.

Folks have posted a few workarounds, in addition to a possible future app. We can assume that more will be posted and we have every right under current policy to have a thread about that.

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.

lcascio wrote:

Anyone finding this thread can get that piece of information now

But, they don't. People keep posting things on the order of "Apple! Fix this!". Because people don't read entire threads. They see a thread with a subject line that describes their issue, read the original post and respond. It's very common for people to post without reading anything else. It's a problem that people like LACAllen are familiar with.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

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.

He was also correct. Tests at the time with other phones showed the same signal drop when held over their antennas.