Unable to restore recent missing contacts in iPhone

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Unable to restore recent missing contacts in iPhone

My iphone 14 Pro (iOS 18.1.1) recently stopped showing recent recipients/contacts when I go to share a photo from the photo app. I found at least one other discussion covering this topic from like 3 years ago, but the solution it suggests did not fix it for me. "Learn from this app" is in a different place in settings, and is already toggled on for both photos and messages.

The first image shows what it looks like now; the second image is an example from another iphone that shows how I want to be...

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Posted on Jan 4, 2025 05:16 PM

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Jan 7, 2025 07:49 AM in response to Cam in KC

OMG THANK YOU! That was the fix. Thank you for taking the time to reply! I have no idea how it got turned off in the first place.

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Jan 6, 2025 07:29 AM in response to 94wahoo

I found this while trying to figure it out for me also. I finally found the answer that fixed it for me…

I went into Settings then Siri and then turned back on the Show When Sharing that I had recently turned off. (So, I had done it to myself unknowingly…sigh)

Someone else had posted to another site that they had to make changes in Siri & Search, but that is an older iOS that I have, but then I remembered making my changes a week ago, so undid them.

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Jan 4, 2025 10:14 PM in response to 94wahoo

What is your default Contacts account? If none, please add an email account and enable contacts.

Unlike some Android devices, contacts are neither stored locally on an iPhone nor in SIM. They are synced to an email account that you have Google, iCloud, AOL, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo or any Other

If you have a corporate email account added through a profile on your device, please check with your organization's system administrator.

Is this your corporate/organisation/enterprise/School Management iPhone? Then please contact the system administrator of your corporate//organisation/enterprise/School Management
If it is your device, in that case, do you have any profile installed by your corporate/organisation/enterprise/School Management?
1. Erase the profile added by you If you have installed a profile on your own --> Install or remove configuration profiles on iPhone - Apple ...
2. Or please contact the system administrator of the organisation who provided the profile to you

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Jan 5, 2025 07:00 AM in response to SravanKrA

Thank you for the reply. I have two contacts accounts enabled, icloud and gmail. This phone is not connected to a corporate email account.

And none of this is new. This phone is over 2 years old now and I have not made any changes to it such as adding a new email account. Just one day the "share" feature stopped offering my most recent, most often used contacts as a quick-click recipient. Why? Did this happen because of the most recent iOS update?

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Unable to restore recent missing contacts in iPhone

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