How to Turn Off Siri Suggestions
Siri is more than just a voice assistant. It’s also a machine learning-based algorithm that shows you useful suggestions on your iPhone, such as apps you might want to launch, photo memories you might be interested in, or search results you might be interested in. Apple says it processes this information. data on your device using end-to-end encryption. This means Apple can’t see the offers you receive.
Sometimes Siri Suggestions can offer suggestions from resources you might want to keep Siri away from, such as dating apps. Apple also says it may use aggregated information to improve its products and services and share common search queries with search engines to improve their results. If any of these aspects of Siri make you uncomfortable, you can turn off Siri Suggestions .
How to turn off Siri suggestions
To clear Siri suggestions, you need to follow a few steps. You can start by going to Settings > Siri & Search on your iPhone. Scroll down and turn off the following options:
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Show offers
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Show recent
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Show in search
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Show in the spotlight
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Allow notifications
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Show in App Library
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Show when sharing
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Show when listening
This will prevent Siri from showing suggestions in many places. You can then prevent apps from sending information to Siri. To do this, scroll down the same settings page (Settings > Siri & Search ) and tap the name of any application. Now disable every option here. You can repeat this for any apps you want Siri to stop scanning.
You can also prevent Siri from accessing your location to personalize suggestions. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services and turn off Suggestions and Search .
The next step is to turn off Siri Suggestions in Safari. You can do this by going to Settings > Safari on your iPhone and turning off Safari Suggestions , Search Engine Suggestions , and Preload Top Results .
How to prevent Siri personalization from syncing between devices
Siri suggestions sync across all your Apple devices, but you can also turn this feature off. To do this, go to Settings > YOUR NAME > iCloud > See All and turn off Siri .