How Do I Stop iPhone From Suggesting Photos?

Spotlight search on the iPhone is excellent at finding and suggesting content, but there are probably some photos on your iPhone that you don’t want to show up when searching. The simplest way to prevent your pictures from showing up in Spotlight search results is to remove all photos from Spotlight. It won’t delete or hide your images. It just stops Spotlight from searching your Photos app when it’s running a search. Here’s what to do:

Things get trickier if you only want to hide some photos from Spotlight but allow others to appear. It’s probably the most common scenario. After all, it makes sense that you’d probably want some photos to show up while blocking others. The only way to do this in the Photos app is to hide a photo. It moves the picture into the Hidden album. That could cause problems if you’ve curated your albums precisely, but it’s the only way to remove a single, specific photo from Spotlight. Here’s what to do:

How Do I Turn off Photo Suggestions?

Photos don’t just appear in Spotlight search results. The iPhone can also suggest Photos to you based on your behavior, location, and other factors. You may prefer not to get these suggestions, either. If not, turn them off by doing this:

Photos may not be able the only app whose contents you want to keep our of your Spotlight search results. There are all kinds of apps that might just not be helpful or relevant to have appear when you’re searching. In that case, the same actions used to hide the Photos app from Spotlight apply:

Show on Home Screen: Disable this to prevent the Photos app from being suggested to you on your iPhone home screen and when the phone is locked.Suggest App: Turning this off means that your iPhone won’t automatically suggest you check out the content in the Photos app.Suggestion Notifications: Disabling this blocks the iPhone from sending you notifications for content in Photos, such as new memory albums the phone has created for you.