Siri suggestions are appearing in Spotlight search – How to fix

Does Siri suggestions are appearing on your Spotlight search on the iPhone? Spotlight search results includes many of the items and Siri suggestions are one of them. The same Siri suggestions can be distracting while you are searching something very simple. In that case, you might be looking for a way to disable the Siri suggestions completely on the Spotlight search system.

Why Siri Suggestions are appearing in Spotlight search?

The suggestions that Siri makes on the Spotlight page is based on the local data stored on your iPhone. Usually, the Siri suggestions are very helpful in recommending repetitive tasks based on your behavior. But the same Siri suggestions can become a point of distraction for you when you are trying to pinpoint your search to a specific item.

In easier words, if the suggestions from Siri are not that useful for you and unnecessarily delaying the search operation, you can disable the Siri suggestions for good. The only way you can do that you can do this is from the main Settings page on the iPhone.



Fix – Disable the Show Suggestions option

You must do this from the main Settings page on your iPhone.

Step 1 – At first, load the Settings window on your iPhone.

Step 2 – Next, open up the “Siri” settings in the device.

 

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Step 3 – Next, on the Siri settings page, go to the ‘Suggestions’ box.

Step 4 – Now, disable the “Suggest Apps Before Searching” option.

 

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Once you have disabled this setting, you can quit the Settings page.



When it is disabled, go back to the home page. Try using the Spotlight to search for an item or anything you want from the search box. This time, none of the Siri suggestions will show up in the search Spotlight. This way, you can manage to personalize the Spotlight search settings on your own.

Hope this trick has helped you fix it.