cannot remove "Siri & Search" from app settings

Hi,

The "Siri & Search" option is listed in my app's settings and I'd like to know how to remove it. I'm pretty sure it wasn't listed when I first started developing my app over a year ago and I never added any Siri related entitlements to my app, not sure when it started being there. It seems half of the apps on my device (from other developers) have this listed, other half do not, so it's not there by default.

I've checked my entitlements file, nothing related to Siri. Checked capabilities, nothing there either related to Siri.

I know my users could go and manually block the app's data from being accessible but I'd rather remove the option entirely and definitely don't want it on by default.

Shows up on at least iOS 15 and iOS 16.

Thanks!

Colin

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I put in a paid support request for this, the answer is there is no way to remove it, it began being added I assume in Xcode 14. I guess this explains why older non-updated apps on my device (ones I did not develop) do NOT have it but newer ones (or apps with newer versions) do.

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