How to disable Siri suggestion on Apple iPhone’s lock screen

If your iPhone is running the latest version of iOS, you may have noticed that Siri has now started offering ‘Shortcuts’ suggestions among other functionalities on the iPhone’s lock screen. The suggestion feature allows Siri to provide regular prompts for certain tasks, alarms, bedtime and more. For instance, if you navigate from your home to office daily at a given time, Siri will automatically prompt the necessary details related to that trip. But at times this could be annoying as you may not want Siri filling your iPhone screen with details all the time. In case you don’t want Siri to show suggestions, there’s a way to disable the feature. Wondering how?

Follow our simple to use guide.

Pre-requisite:

The latest version of iOS must be installed on the iPhone

1.Disable Siri suggestions for individual apps

- Open ‘Settings’ app on your iPhone

- Tap on the ‘Notifications’ option

- Under Notification settings page, look for the option ‘Siri Suggestions.’

- The next screen will show all the app that supports Siri Suggestions feature.

- Locate the app for which you don’t want to see the suggestions and switch the toggle to off state placed in front of that particular app.

2.Disable Siri Suggestions for all apps

- In case you want to turn off this feature for all the app at once, here are the steps one need to follow. Please note, that after this, users Siri won’t show any suggestions at the lock screen.

- Head to ‘Settings’ app and tap on the option ‘Siri & Search’.

- Under Siri & Search menu page, scroll down and turn off the toggle for “Suggestions on Lock Screen”. And voila, you’re done.

To turn the feature back on for any app, head to the same settings page by following the steps as mentioned above and flick the toggle button.