iOS 16.4 shows Siri suggestions even though they are disabled

[neurophysicist]

Hello,
I upgraded to iOS 16.4 last night. One thing I noticed is that while I’ve always had Siri/spotlight suggestions disabled, they have been showing up since I upgraded.

For example:
- in Settings -> Safari -> Siri & Search, the only item I have turned on is Show App In Search. However, if I make a search query it will show Safari history:

There are various other examples: searching will show FaceTime call history in search; or Google Map results. This is despite all these apps having all options unchecked in Siri & Suggestions (with the exception of Show App in Search:

For Google Maps I was able to press a Clear shortcuts button in the app itself which eliminated Google Maps results, but it is odd any Siri/search results appear in the first place since I have not changed my settings since upgrading to iOS 16.4.

Is anyone else having this issue after upgrading to iOS 16.4?

 

[inash619]

I have the same problem.

 

[ifxf]

second this. Also notice Apple apps such as suggestions, photos, calendar, facetime, etc. such up in search even if disabled.

How can Apple break something as simple as this?

 

[neurophysicist]

Issue persists for me after updating to 16.4.1

 

[Nermal]

These re-enabled themselves for me when I installed 16.4, but I was able to turn them off again.

 

[neurophysicist]

These re-enabled themselves for me when I installed 16.4, but I was able to turn them off again.

Interesting; do you mean the toggles for Show Content in Search turned themselves on, and you had to manually turn them off?

Strangely for me; the toggles are (and have been) off, but I’m still getting all these search results.

 

[Nermal]

Interesting; do you mean the toggles for Show Content in Search turned themselves on, and you had to manually turn them off?

Apologies; we were talking about different things. Pretend I said nothing

 

[neurophysicist]

Did anyone else ever have this resolved? I'm on 16.7.1 and still have the same issue (it seems to have intermittently improved in the past with toggling the settings; but now it's still as bad as before). I can't really search for anything without being bombarded with Siri suggestions.

I haven't upgraded yet to iOS 17 because I usually stick it out longer until major updates have been around a bit longer, but if people aren't having this issue in iOS 17, I may take the plung