Share Sheet: Contacts “suggest less”

FOUND A FIX. Chris provides no help whatsoever so hopefully people see this. Suggest less to everything you see until it has absolutely nothing left to suggest less. I did this and my SO reappeared where she used to be. This, of course, means that you need to need to exchange a number of messages/share a number of things to get it working again. Oh, and if you mess up again you have to “suggest less” to everything - again.

If you go to “Siri and search” in settings, there should be a toggle for “suggestions when sharing” (this toggles the row on the share sheet). When I toggled it off and back on, it appeared to reset who is subject to “suggest less” banishment. I hope this works for you.

A Work Around: This is how I restored contacts to the share sheet. Bring up the contact, then do a screen shot to save that contact info as a picture so you can refer to it. Next, delete the contact, then recreate it except you need to misspell their name (ie: John Smith is recreated as Johnx Smithx. That new contact will show up in the share sheet within a day once you start sending them pics or whatever you send. Wait two full weeks, then rename the contact to the correct name. This worked for me (twice).

guess i’m a little late for this. totally agree with this. just accidentally tap on that Suggest Less on my family contact and now it’s just, disappeared. no way to bring it back, except for the restoring thing. hope the developer team will be able to bring a way to undo this Suggest Less thing.

Greetings Gregstud,

Thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities! It seems you're curious how Siri makes suggestions, and have feedback for feature enhancements to Siri contact suggestions.

Check out the information in the following article for how Siri uses on-device processing to make suggestions: Siri Suggestions, Search & Privacy - Apple Support

You're welcome to leave feedback directly to Apple at the following website: Product Feedback - Apple

Kind regards.

Greg, I have this same problem. I also called Apple and the support person could not figure it out either. I accidentally clicked “suggest less” on my number one texted contact and can’t get it to show back up no matter what.

Has any one figured this out because it’s mildly infuriating.

I’m also having this exact same issue. I was worried that I was the only one having this problem so I’m glad to see I am not alone. Other than this question thread I can’t find any other information on this. SO frustrating.

The lack of ability to undo this action is an egregious user experience failure. Who designs this sort of thing? For all there is to like about Apple products, I continue to be amazed that thoughtful, well designed software UX – once an Apple hallmark – has tanked in recent years. Note, that I used a Shortcut action that I added to the Share Sheet as a workaround. But it is a clunky way to fix a obvious, predictable problem.

It doesn’t seem that there is a fix for this. I have the same problem. However, if you restore your phone it will take it back to the original factory settings. You will lose everything.

I have the same question. I click one name of my family and choose suggest less. And now i dont know how to recovery it to show again in my list suggestion. How to fix it?

Wait, what restoring thing? I desperately want to undo a “suggest less” change I made by accident and it’s driving me crazy!