MacOS 15.3.1. I asked Siri “How do you turn off suggestions in Messages?”
Siri responds with instructions that:
(a) Tell me to go to a System Settings panel that doesn't exist. There is no “Siri & Spotlight”. There is “Apple Intelligence & Siri" and a separate one for “Spotlight”.
(b) Are for Mail, not Messages, even though I asked about Messages, and Siri's own response starts with “To turn off Siri suggestions in Messages”
The actual way to disable these suggestions in Messages on MacOS:
In System Settings: Apple Intelligence & Siri, click the “About Siri, Dictation & Privacy…” button.
In the panel that opens, go to Messages. Turn off “Show Siri Suggestions in application”.
(When I turned this off, an already-generated suggestion in Messages continued to be shown to me in a chat thread. But new suggestions stopped being generated and shown.)
On iPhone or iPad:
In Settings → Apple Intelligence & Siri, scroll down to “Apps” at the bottom. On the Apps screen (which should have one of those convenient “jump to here” A–Z indexes on the right, but doesn’t) scroll down to Messages.
Or, in Settings, scroll to the very bottom and tap "Apps” at the bottom of the main sidebar. On that Apps screen (which *does* offer the helpful A–Z index), tap Messages, then tap “Apple Intelligence & Siri”.
In the next screen, turn off “Show in App”.
@gruber They should add these as new Shortcuts actions because managing these settings manually with any regularity is a huge pain now.
They’re on a path towards it too
@fcloth I thought the same thing at first, but that's because I kept getting shown the same suggestion in the same chat thread I was using for testing. It seems that if a suggestion has already been generated, but you neither dismiss it nor accept it, and you then toggle this setting, that suggestion will remain.
Once I turned this off I stopped getting new suggestions, on both Mac and iPhone.
@gruber Alright, as I've ticked the setting across more of my devices, looks like it may be working after all. Thank you!
(Seems like maybe AI smart replies can be generated on one device and sync to the others..?)
@Pallais No A–Z index:
Apple Intelligence & Siri → Apps → Messages
Has the A–Z index:
Apps → Messages → Apple Intelligence & Siri
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