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How to Use Your iPhone Without Siri Suggestions

Use your iPhone’s Siri settings to remove suggestions app by app or across system surfaces, while keeping voice-activated Siri if desired.
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To stop Siri suggestions without necessarily turning Siri off, open Settings, tap Siri or Apple Intelligence & Siri, then use Apps to disable suggestions for individual apps. For suggestions across iPhone surfaces, turn off the relevant system controls; for location-based Spotlight suggestions, use a separate switch in Location Services.

Turn off suggestions for a specific app

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap Siri or Apple Intelligence & Siri. The label depends on your iPhone’s software configuration.
  3. Tap Apps, then choose the app whose suggestions you want to change.
  4. Turn off the suggestion controls you do not want. Depending on your iOS version and the app, options may include Show in App, Show on Home Screen, Suggest App, or Suggestion Notifications.

This per-app approach lets you remove recommendations associated with one app without necessarily disabling suggestions everywhere. Apple says Siri Suggestions are enabled by default for apps and that you can change their settings at any time. Apple’s guide to turning Siri Suggestions on or off describes the app controls.

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Control suggestions across iPhone surfaces

In the Siri settings area, turn off the controls for the places where you do not want recommendations. Depending on your device and configuration, these may cover the Home Screen, app suggestions, notifications, Search, App Library, sharing, or listening suggestions. Use the options actually shown on your iPhone; the labels and available choices vary by software version and app.

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Apple’s current instructions use Siri or Apple Intelligence & Siri and describe an Apps section for app-by-app settings. Older iOS instructions used Siri & Search and separate toggles for places such as Search, the Lock Screen, the Home Screen, and sharing. Those older labels may not match what you see now. See Apple’s Siri Suggestions guide and Apple’s guide to changing Siri settings for the settings Apple documents.

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Stop location-based Spotlight suggestions

If the recommendations you want to remove are location-based suggestions in Spotlight, change Location Services separately:

  1. Open Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services.
  2. Tap System Services.
  3. Turn off Suggestions & Search.

This switch addresses location-based Spotlight suggestions; it is distinct from the app and system-surface controls in Siri settings. Apple documents it in its Spotlight search guide.

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Keep Siri voice activation while removing suggestions

Siri Suggestions are predictive recommendations and actions, not the same thing as voice activation. You can adjust suggestion settings without necessarily disabling Siri itself. If you also want to stop activating Siri by voice, change that separately in Siri settings. Apple documents suggestion controls and Siri activation controls as separate settings in its Siri settings guide. For information on using Siri Suggestions with Shortcuts, see Apple’s Shortcuts guide.

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