Prior to iOS 16, the Siri Suggestions in the Share Sheet used to mirror the conversations in the Messages app. Once conversations were deleted from the Messages app, they would no longer appear as Siri Suggestions in the Share Sheet.
With iOS 16, the Share Sheet started to become less accurate: rather than 100% mirroring the conversations from the Messages app, contacts that you message with often will still appear on the Share Sheet, even if there’s no conversation with that contact in the Messages app at the time.
With iOS 17, the Share Sheets are a mess. Share Sheets for Safari, Photos, Music, etc will all offer different contact suggestions, and it appears that the Music app Share Sheet contains the most accurate suggestions because it appears to mirror the conversations from the Messages app with the most accuracy.
To reproduce this issue:
• Open the Messages app and note the conversations within the app (I, personally, constantly delete conversations and prefer to keep a minimal amount of conversations in my Messages app).
• Open Safari and tap the icon to bring up the Share Sheet: the contact suggestions may not accurately reflect the same conversations from the Messages app.
• Now open the Music app and trigger the Share Sheet (long press an album or song and select “share”, for example).
• Note that the contact suggestions in the Music app most likely reflect the conversations in the Messages app with more accuracy.
In a perfect world, things would work the way they did prior to iOS 16: every single Share Sheet (Safari, Photos, Music, Notes, etc) would offer the exact same contact suggestions, and those suggestions would be an *exact* mirror of the current conversations that exist in the Messages app. And we’d no longer have to constantly tap contact suggestions and select “suggest less” because Siri wants to push frequent contacts, despite the fact that there’s no current conversation with said contact in the Messages app.
