If you’ve been using aSamsung Galaxy smartphonefor a while now, you’ll probably have noticed the row of contact suggestions that appears whenever youattempt to share a file or linkwith somebody else.
This contact suggestion feature was first introduced in Android 10 back in 2019. It pulls together a selection of your contacts, sourced from across your variousapps, in an attempt to save you time when using the operating system’s share sheet interface.
In theory, this is a great idea – using machine learning, the system can take stock of which contacts you frequently share content with, as well as from which apps, in order to surface those contacts for quicker access.
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Unfortunately, life can be a bit messy sometimes. If you’ve ever had an ex-partner or ex-friend incessantly pop up as a suggestion on your share sheet, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.
Here’s how to disable the feature on your Samsung Galaxy handset, so unwanted contacts stop appearing every time you go to share something on your device.
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How to remove the bar of recommended contacts on your share sheet
Samsung’s One UI is filled with customization tools, and it includes options relating to the system share sheet
In order to remove the recommended contacts from the top of your share sheet, follow these steps:
Just like that, the next time you go to share something with a friend, the share sheet will be free of any and all contact suggestions.
Unfortunately, if using a phone that’s running a leaner version of Android based on theAndroid Open Source Project(AOSP), such as one ofGoogle’s own Pixel phones, you currently don’t have the ability to disable suggested contacts from appearing within your share interface.
Even with the public launch ofAndroid 15just around the corner, Google hasn’t yet integrated this usefulSamsung One UIfeature into the broader Android ecosystem.
The search giant has a history of adopting Samsung features (see screen recording, private folder, and split screen) over time, so it’s very possible that Android 16 will finally bring with it more user control over sharing recommendations.
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