iOS 11 - Dock... Why does an App icon keeps appearing?

I’m seeing this issue as well, and I’m finding it to be very irritating, as I‘m also seeing that when the icon with the alarm clock (for me it’s ibooks) appears, it starts rotating on and off with another icon in the iPad doc, so one moment it’s one icon, then the iBooks icon with the alarm clock, then the other icon, etc. I’ve read that it’s Siri recommending an app based on time of day, but I also don’t see how to turn it off, again as it’s so irritating. I also have those same settings as you disabled, yet it persists for me as well. Hopefully a bug? Bug reporting: Product Feedback - Apple

This is what it looks like for me:

Hi. That's interesting. Have you set an alarm in the Clock app?

We're all just discovering this new system, so who knows what magic Apple has included?

I suggest you try enabling recent apps. It's actually quite handy. Just swipe up and tap to go back to a previous app.

I see. You implied that it was an unknown app. Are you running TunnelBear? Is it maybe some sort of popup, nagging you to use the VPN for more security? Hard to say why it appears.

By "recent apps", I meant the Show Suggested and Recent Apps setting that you said you turned off.

Sorry you don't like the new look. Certainly takes some getting used to. But not much we can do as users. Fretting about designed-in useability changes won't have any effect.

Hi. Apparently, the concept is that the right hand side of the dock is for apps suggested by Siri. These may be

- recently used apps

- apps frequently used at this time of day (clock badge)

- apps frequently used at this location (location arrow badge)

You can turn off the recent apps and the location suggestions. I don't know how to turn off the time suggestions. But they're no harmful, since they don't actually do anything; they're just suggestions. They make it easier to open the

app by adding it to the dock. This does not appear to be documented anywhere.

I have Siri turned off, as well as siri’s suggestions in search and other places and I have yet to see the alarm clock icon. So if a person does not use siri perhaps turning her off can make that ’helpful’ icon go away

I have this issue as well and have turned off everything I can find in settings just to get the clock badge to go away. For me it is the TV app the is already in my dock. Some days it magically appears on the right side with clock badge, some days it doesn’t. The worst part is that hitting the badge or the app tells me nothing at all. I get no reason that apple has decided I show pay extra attention to this app that I rarely use or nothing to tell me how to shut it off.

Including features then making customers have to guess what is there and how they work is not a very good business model. The old KISS (keep it simple stupid) model never goes out of style.

I‘m not sure how long it will last, but here is what I did in addition to setting the Show Suggested and Recent to Off:

From the Home screen, swipe right to bring up the Widgets page.

Scroll to the bottom and select “Edit”

Remove ”Siri App Suggestions” from your widgets

So far, this has worked for me. Haven’t had any apps show up on the right side of the Dock for over a week now.

Hope this helps!

World's changing. Getting more complex. 1950's, straight 6's, carburetors, all gone now. Tough for old-timers.

Try turning off the Siri App Suggestions widget.