How can I disallow the predictive text feature to access to my phone contacts?
The iOS native predictive text feature produces pretty poor results. Sometimes it’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.
Now I’m not going to complain about Apple censoring my language or anything, as I get that that’s a tough topic in text prediction services. Also not going into how it would be fairly easy to apply basic semantics in addition to grammatical rules in order to not produce completely nonsensical sentences all the time. Or how the thing should please please learn that I don’t ever want to write “snd” but “and” because really no one wants to write “snd” that frequently. It’s ridiculous.
Instead, I’m after something very specific. I want to prevent the predictive text feature from accessing my phone contacts. I have a long address book with lots of people with interesting surnames, I get it. That doesn’t make it a good idea to suggest and apply them all the time, ahead of much more frequently used and semantically fitting terms.
I vaguely remember that ages ago when the feature first launched that there was a dialog asking me to grant it access to my address book. I deeply regret ever allowing this. Especially because there seems to be no way to reverse it. In addition to it messing up everything I’m writing, I also think of this as a data privacy concern. Give me control over my data.
Anyone an idea if/how I can disconnect Predictive from my address book data?
iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13
> Siri & Search, then turn off any of the following: