How to turn off Siri suggesting Check In on iPhone

hhmt wrote:

Still an issue 08/24/2024. I have all Siri settings turned off - have never turned them on - and am prompted to "check in" with one specific contact via Messages "Siri suggestions." Please address this, Apple.

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It started with my messages to my friend, and then today her messages back to me. She figured it out! There’s a little green checkbox next to my face on messaging. She unchecked it not happening anymore.

I have been looking into this problem for months. None of the proffered solutions have worked for me. I have resorted to deleting the contact and this seems to be the only way of ameliorating this. Like others, I am disgruntled with the fact that this feature was: (a) seemingly introduced without my awareness or consent; (b) the continuing lack of a clear way to turn the feature off. This "feature", in conjunction with other issues associated with our contemporary digital age, are making me seriously contemplate whether a smartphone (iOS or otherwise) is really the wise next purchase for me when I am ready to move on. I think I am ready to return to a "dumbphone" after a decade and a half of toying with these things.

I also have this problem. More specifically it is telling my husband to send a check in to his boss, who he doesn’t text with at all. It is more than annoying - it’s really dumb and potentially damaging if he accidentally sends it.

I get this while driving and I have notifications turned off while driving. The suggestion is absurd having no relevance to anything I would do, dangerous as in it sends this while driving, and invasive to my privacy combing though my data providing things I did not ask for and wasn't aware it was going to be turned on. Apple please make this supposed feature actual annoyance easy to shut off and please do not automatically release these things without making us aware and with a simple "off" control.

Thanks,

That was the opposite of what we’re looking for in this post. It tells us how to use the feature (a feature we don’t want to use) and how to only cancel an individual check-in, not disable the entire feature.

I keep having this problem too. It keeps telling me to check in with my ex boyfriend who recently broke up with me that I’m trying to get out of my mind and move on. I’ve had it at pop up at least 6-7 times in the last 3 weeks.

This is also a problem for me as of 6/27/24 and turning off Siri suggestions doesn’t help. It’s very frustrating and I’m worried I’m going to share my location with someone I don’t want to have it. Definitely a safety issue that needs addressing immediately

the number one thing that is making me consider switching to Android is Apple's continued insistence on pushing new features on us opt-out rather than opt-in and worse making it obscure how to actually opt-out. It is beyond annoying.

These just started for me too in the past week. First Siri suggested I share location with my grandma, and now it just suggested I do something with my wallet. All settings for these are off. This is very clearly an annoying glitch. Anyone find any solves?

This EXACT thing started happening to me a few weeks ago - suggesting I check in with my older male boss, and it’s weirding me out. Only things I can think of that might prompt him (and only him) as the contact to check in with are he is a favorite contact on my phone (it’s a work phone), and I do have about 10 yrs of intermittent text messages with him, but he’s not a very frequent text or even phone call contact.

I would like to turn it off too! It keeps suggesting I check in with my male, 40 year old boss. (I’m 55, divorced, female) It’s super awkward?? Why do I need to check in with anyone?? Turn the suggestion off!!

Absolutely ludicrous that we have these "features" foisted on us, if I want to check in with someone I will, being forced to put up with this rubbish cos someone at apple thinks its a good idea is frankly bollocks

I would use this feature if it actually suggested checking in with, say, my wife. But it chose another male friend who I don’t care to check in with. And it keeps DOING IT… omg STOP!

I finally turned off Siri Suggestions…(before search) which might have done it… but now I don’t get my suggested apps when I go to search for apps.

I had tuned OFF “allow notifications” in “Suggestions from Apple” but they still come through…. And always to the same friend, who’s not even that close of a friend.

why not my wife? Who I’m ALWAYS with? Makes no sense. This is absurdly annoying. GET RID OF IT!