Siri & Search Settings - wordings/captions/helptext that wasn't helpful/meaningful

Before I begin, I clarify that I am from a country where English is not my mother tongue language. I have really hard time trying to comprehend these options items, even after I toggle each one to check the difference.


"Siri & Search" screen > [Allow Notifications] in "Suggestions from Apple" section
"Notifications" screen > [Siri Suggestions] in "Siri" section > [Allow Notifications]

Disregarding the fact these these two buttons share the same value despite different directories/screens and i left it defaulted to "On", I never receive any banner/alert notifications, whether phone is locked or not, from Siri.


One of the segment's caption suggest that this option controls app allowed to suggest Shortcuts on the Lock Screen. but, again, what does it even mean??


Toggle the button "Off", below buttons would just disappear in every app's suggestion tab, instead of a grey colored "Off" button.

"Siri & Search" screen > "Apps" section > (Any App) > [Suggestion Notifications] in "Suggestions" section


2.

"Siri & Search" screen > "Apps" section > (Any App)> [Show App in Search] & [Show Content in Search] in "While Searching" section

Caption reads

Allow (Any app) and its content to appear in Search.

but should mean

Allow (Any app) and its content to appear "when you use Siri Suggestions, Look Up and Visual Look Up, when you type in Search, Safari search and #images search in Messages, or when you invoke Spotlight" According to articles in "About Siri Suggestions, Search & Privacy..."


3.

"Siri & Search" screen > "Apps" section > (Any App > [Show on Home Screen], [Suggest App], [Show in App] & [Suggestion Notifications] in "Suggestions" section

Caption reads:

"Allow (Any app) and its content ..."
"...to appear in Search..." (this was already covered in "While Searching", why repeat it?)
"...to appear in the app..." (corresponds to [Show in App]?)
"...to appear in Widget..." (corresponds to [Show on Home Screen]?)
"...to appear as notification..." (corresponds to [Suggestion Notifications]? doesn't matter anyway, due to point 1.)

Especially, do these "(the) APP" in the context of "Allow ... from (Any App) and Shortcuts for THE APP to appear in THE APP" and [show in APP]" refer to Shortcuts App, or itself? Isn't this part subjective?


Based on my trial and error,

[Suggest App], which seems excluded in the caption, actually means [Suggest App Content in Shortcuts]. It controls recent entries in "Suggestion From Your Apps" when you add Actions in Shortcuts App.

[Show on Home Screen] actually means [Show on Widgets]??

It should not be "Suggestions" section, "Shortcuts App Suggestions" section are more appropriate, no?


Things I dont understand still

[Notification suggestion] and [Allow Notification] may be referring to widgets in lock screen/focus mode?

[Show in App Library] - After turning this off, the first group of app icons named "Suggestions" would still remain unchanged/visible/enabled in "App Library". So, what is it?

[Show When Listening] - I dont see any significant differences when I use Siri. Does it only apply to accessibility feature like "Sound Recognition" ?


too bad there is no strikethrough formatting available in the text editor in this forum. Would have represented my points more accurately. Thanks in advance for your response.

iPhone 11, iOS 16

Posted on Jan 12, 2023 12:16 PM

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Jan 12, 2023 1:52 PM in response to SalsaSauce


..SalsaSauce..

.Perhaps to make suggestions or point out issues/omissions to Apple

directly, by use of their Product Feedback regime, may show promise.


•Product Feedback - Apple (categories: hardware and software)

//www.apple.com/feedback/


And in order to comply with 'character limits' within their form, you could

link to this support community page, too? ~ There may be more than one

Feedback category; your issue may find worth writing different aspects.


(Did not read 'Related Article' to see how effective that helped direct you.)


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