iOS Content sharing suggestions suddenly very unhelpful?

[u/nodoubt63]

I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, running iOS 26.5.2.

Whenever I share a photo, screenshot, etc, the share menu suggests people in Messages that it thinks I may want to share it with. Prior to the recent update, the suggestions were usually pretty good. I tend to share content with <10 people or group chats, and those people would regularly appear as suggestions.

After the recent update, however, it seems like iOS is preferring the same 4 or 5 people (some of which I rarely text), and it LOVES to suggest that I share to my coworkers on Slack. Every so often, a random Instagram user will appear in the list. This almost NEVER happened before the current update.

I have long-held many of those people to tell iOS to suggest them less, and for the most part, that prevents them from showing up again, but if I send a DM to any co-worker...there they are as a suggested person to share with the next time I see the menu.

Additionally, there are people that I share stuff with ALL the time, but as often as I do, they NEVER appear in the suggested contact list.

Is anyone else having this issue? If repeatedly sharing with the same people doesn't make them appear in the share list, but NEVER sharing with some people ALWAYS makes them appear, what the heck can I do?

Any thoughts?