How do we turn off the default Search Suggestion?

Hello We're implementing Search in our Apple TV App, and want to show Search Suggestions. We've followed the WWDC talk https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10634/ and so far so good.

We've got our suggestions showing, but at the start of our suggestions list is the default built in suggestion of whatever has already been typed.

We want to remove this first suggestion, because below the suggestions is already the results for the typed search term, and therefore offering this suggestion doesn't work for us.

An array of two UISearchSuggestionItem were added to self.searchController.searchSuggestions, but this seems to have been pre-pended with another suggestion, which is what the customer has already typed. This is what we want to turn off.

This suggestion isn't present in the Apple TV+ app, so it feels like we must somehow be able to turn this off, but haven't found any way to do so.

This is AppleTV+ app which does NOT show a suggestion of "jo".

Please help.

Thanks

Antony

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Unfortunately, there isn't a way to suppress defaults from showing up on a client. It's added on the list to provide an easy way for users to query using exact input.