Turn Off Siri Suggestions in Settings › Siri › Suggestions

Open Settings, tap Siri, tap Suggestions and turn off the five switches there; that stops Siri Suggestions appearing in search, notifications, the App Library, the Share sheet and listening suggestions. To stop Siri learning from an app as well, go to Settings › Siri › App Access, pick the app and turn off Learn from this App. Both are from Apple’s iOS 27 iPhone User Guide.

Apple treats Siri Suggestions as separate from Siri itself and from Apple Intelligence. Turning them off leaves Siri answering requests, and none of the nine settings in Apple’s iOS 27 guide to turning off Apple Intelligence is a Siri Suggestions switch.

Where suggestions appear, and the switch for each

All of these start in the Settings app, on iOS 27.

Where you see suggestions	Setting	What it controls, per Apple
Search, before you type	Siri › Suggestions › Suggest Apps Before Searching	Suggested apps in search
Notifications	Siri › Suggestions › Allow Notifications	Suggestions as notifications
App Library	Siri › Suggestions › Show in App Library	Suggestions in the App Library
Share sheet	Siri › Suggestions › Show When Sharing	Suggestions when sharing
Music and audio	Siri › Suggestions › Show Listening Suggestions	Suggestions when you might want to listen
Home Screen, one app	Siri › App Access › the app › Show on Home Screen	That app’s suggestions on the Home Screen
Suggested app, one app	Siri › App Access › the app › Suggest App	Whether that app is suggested
Notifications, one app	Siri › App Access › the app › Suggestion Notifications	That app’s suggestion notifications
Learning, one app	Siri › App Access › the app › Learn from this App	Whether Siri learns how you use it
App Clips	Siri › App Clips › Learn From App Clips, Show in Search, Suggest App Clips	Learning from, and showing, App Clips
Location	Privacy & Security › Location Services › System Services › Suggestions & Search	Whether your location refines suggestions

Apple says the per-app options “may be different depending on the app you select and which version of Siri you’re using”, so not every app shows all four.

Turn them off everywhere

1. Open Settings and tap Siri.
2. Tap Suggestions.
3. Turn off Suggest Apps Before Searching, Allow Notifications, Show in App Library, Show When Sharing and Show Listening Suggestions.

These five decide where suggestions appear. They do not, on Apple’s description, stop Siri learning.

Stop Siri learning from an app

1. In Settings › Siri, tap App Access.
2. Choose an app.
3. Turn off Learn from this App, and, if you want, Show on Home Screen, Suggest App and Suggestion Notifications.
4. Repeat for each app you care about. For App Clips, tap App Clips under Siri and turn off Learn From App Clips.

Apple’s privacy statement says this is how “to stop apps from contributing information to personalize Siri”. It is a per-app switch; none of the Apple pages we read gives one learning switch for all apps at once.

Stop location refining suggestions

Go to Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › System Services and turn off Suggestions & Search. Apple’s Spotlight page says that with Location Services on, Spotlight “may use your location to refine suggestions”.

What turning them off does not do

• It does not turn off Siri. Turning off Siri is a separate control in Apple’s guides.
• It is not an Apple Intelligence setting. Apple’s iOS 27 Apple Intelligence page does not mention Siri Suggestions, Learn from this App or App Access.
• It does not change sync on its own. Apple says Siri settings and Siri Suggestions personalisation “will sync across your Apple devices using end-to-end encryption if you use iCloud”. To stop that, Apple’s iOS 27 guide says to turn off Siri in iCloud settings.
• It is not the same as Search’s own settings. Which apps appear in search is Settings › Search, then an app, then Show App in Search — the screen called Siri & Search before iOS 18, as we set out in what “Optimizing Search and Siri” means.

On the data, Apple’s privacy statement says Siri Suggestions use “local, on-device processing” on things like your Safari history, mail, messages and contacts, and that suggestions “are not stored on Apple servers”. Searches are different: Apple’s Search & Privacy statement says that when you type in Search, use Look Up or Safari search, “limited information will be sent to Apple to provide up-to-date suggestions”, tied to a 15-minute rotating identifier rather than your account.

Lock Screen, Safari and Look Up

Apple’s privacy statement lists suggestions “in searches, share sheet, calendar, Look Up, Visual Look Up, Safari, apps, and more”, and the iOS 18 guide described suggestions when you “glance at the Lock Screen”. The iOS 27 guide names no separate Siri Suggestions switch for the Lock Screen, Safari or Look Up. For suggestions that arrive as notifications, the switches it gives are Allow Notifications and each app’s Suggestion Notifications. Safari’s search-term suggestions come from your search engine and have their own switch: Settings › Apps › Safari › Search Engine Suggestions.

What changed from iOS 26

On iOS 26, Apple’s guide had a page called “Turn Siri Suggestions on or off”, with per-app settings under Siri › Apps (or Apple Intelligence & Siri › Apps) and switches named Show in App, Show on Home Screen, Suggest App and Suggestion Notifications. In the iOS 27 guide that page is gone, and its address redirects to the guide’s front page. The settings are now in “Change Siri settings”, under Suggestions and App Access.

Apple’s own pages do not agree on the names. Its Siri privacy statement, dated 14 September 2026, tells you to turn off “Show in App Library”, “Show in Spotlight”, “Show When Sharing” or “Show When Listening”, and gives the per-app path as Siri › Apps. The iOS 27 guide says Suggest Apps Before Searching, Show Listening Suggestions and App Access. We have followed the version-specific guide; if your screen shows the privacy statement’s names instead, both pages put them under Settings › Siri.

On a Mac the per-app switches are under System Settings › Siri › App Access, as part of turning off Apple Intelligence on a Mac.

Questions people ask

How do I turn off Siri suggestions?

On iOS 27, open Settings, tap Siri, then Suggestions, and turn off Suggest Apps Before Searching, Allow Notifications, Show in App Library, Show When Sharing and Show Listening Suggestions. To stop Siri learning from an app as well, go to Siri › App Access, choose the app and turn off Learn from this App.

How do I stop Siri suggestions on my lock screen?

Apple’s iOS 27 guide does not name the Lock Screen. The switches it gives for suggestions as notifications are Allow Notifications under Settings › Siri › Suggestions, for all of them, and Suggestion Notifications under Siri › App Access for one app.

Does turning off Siri suggestions turn off Siri?

No. Apple lists them as separate settings: suggestions under Settings › Siri › Suggestions and App Access, and Turn Off Siri as its own control. Turning suggestions off leaves Siri answering requests.

Are Siri Suggestions part of Apple Intelligence?

Apple does not treat them as one. Its iOS 27 guide to turning off Apple Intelligence lists nine settings, none of them Siri Suggestions, and Apple’s privacy statement describes Siri Suggestions as on-device learning with switches of their own under Settings › Siri.

Does turning off Siri suggestions stop my iPhone learning from me?

Not by itself. The Suggestions switches control where suggestions appear. Apple says the way to stop an app contributing information to personalise Siri is to turn off Learn from this App for that app, under Settings › Siri › App Access in iOS 27.

Where did Siri Suggestions go in iOS 27?

Into Settings › Siri. On iOS 26, Apple’s guide had a separate page and put the per-app settings under Siri › Apps. The iOS 27 guide folds them into its Siri settings page, with a Suggestions screen and an App Access screen.