Those little suggestions from Siri can lead down a tempting rabbit hole! These suggestions learn from our behavior, but they aren't formed from what we wish we were doing! They come out of what we actually do on our iPhones. Not only what we do when it's daytime and we might be working hard, but also from what we do at 2am when we should actually be sleeping.
Siri loves to recommend things: Apps to open in spotlight, app widget, or in the App Library. Or Siri might recommend an action to take or a shortcut to run-- because you've done those things at other times. But what if it was something you didn't want to do, like scrolling Instagram for hours at a time when you'd rather be going to bed? Siri might inadvertently remind you to go down Instagram when might not have otherwise been sucked down that rabbit hole!
The recommendations assume you're using your iPhone the way you want to, and doesn't consider that it might be reinforcing bad habits.
But you can tell Siri to stop learning the wrong things to suggest to you! You actually can tell Siri to stop suggesting apps or actions that are particularly annoying or that might send you to distraction land.
Additionally, if you have a lot of apps, having Siri look at all of them for suggestions can really slow down your searches-- even if you have the latest iPhone 14! We should tell Siri what to lay off so that it isn't slowing our searches down!
In this video we will take a look at how to hide an app from Siri suggestions and/or search. But keep in mind that Apple tries to phrase everything very simply. Which actually kind of obfuscates what a particular switch does. So some of these I can’t tell you exactly what they do without actually working on the Siri team (which... I don't).
FYI, hidden in these Siri suggestion searches is the only way to Hide apps in App Library (the suggested apps section). But they will still be visible in their topic categories, and we can't turn that off.