Key Takeaways
- Easily delete unwanted contacts from the Share Sheet on your iPhone.
- Customize your share sheet to avoid awkward sharing issues.
- You can avoid this issue entirely by preventing contacts from appearing in the share sheet.
It’s a terrible situation we’ve all been in: You’re trying to send a file or a link to someone, and you accidentally send it to the wrong person through a share sheet. This problem is annoying in the worst case scenario of accidentally sending a souffle recipe to your mom, but what if there’s someone even worse in the share sheet? Your boss, a distant relative, an ex-lover, or sometimes even youriPhone It saves unwanted contacts in the share sheet.
Sometimes, your iPhone may get stuck on a contact for a long time, and when you open the share sheet, you may see one strange contact without knowing why.
To avoid close calls, or even worse, accidentally sending a weird meme to your boss, you can modify the share sheet to your liking. There are a few options for modification, and you can be as detailed or global as you want.
Let’s take that resistance out of the share sheet.
Sometimes your iPhone can hang on to your contacts for too long. You might open the share sheet and find one weird contact there without knowing why. Even if that contact isn’t someone you’d accidentally text, you might be better off with someone you actually share info with regularly taking up that space.
Deleting a specific contact from the share sheet is a very simple process.
- Open the Share Sheet on your iPhone.
- Tap and hold the contact you want to delete from the share sheet.
- choice Reduce suggestions.
If there is only one contact you want to exclude from the share sheet, use “Suggest Fewer.”
This will remove the individual in question from your iPhone’s share sheet. This doesn’t mean they’ll never show up again, but it will remove them immediately. As the button says, this just tells your iPhone to suggest the contact less often, not that it’ll never suggest them again. However, unless they’re someone you communicate with often or have frequent contact with, it’s highly unlikely they’ll show up in your share sheet again.
For those with truly cursed share sheets
Whatever the reason, the Share Sheet may be in a state where you can’t do anything about it. If you’re having issues with more than just one contact repeatedly appearing in your iPhone’s Share Sheet, there’s a more universal solution. Rather than individually deleting unwanted contacts every time they appear, you can completely disable them from appearing in the Share Sheet. This is easy to do, but there are some differences between doing this on an iPhone and on a computer.iOS18 Update If I run this on my iPhone iOS17 Update The same is true for the following:
In iOS 18, this setting is in a slightly different place than it was in iOS 17 and earlier.
- open setting App.
- choice Siri and Search.
- Down Apple’s suggestionturn off the power Visible when shared option.
For iOS 18 and above users, there are separate settings menus for Siri and Search. The option you’re looking for is: Siri Settings menu. The reason Contact Suggestions are nested under Siri settings is because these suggestions come from Siri’s Smart Suggestions, not just the base set of contacts you’ve recently texted.
If you turn this option off, contacts will no longer appear in the share sheet. Your share sheet will remain exactly the same except that there will no longer be any suggested contacts. You can always re-enable this option and add contacts to the share sheet again.
Whether you need to remove just one contact from the share sheet or clear the random carousel, you can choose to tell your phone to suggest fewer contacts or turn off share sheet contacts entirely. Both options can help minimize accidental sharing and make your share sheet a bit more streamlined.
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