iMessage spotlight suggestions?

[yomnym]

Not sure if everyone is aware of this feature or if its something new for that matter. I just stumbled across this while messaging back and forth with a friend. He mentioned a restaurant and the name was automatically underlined in the message, this allowed me to click it and it took me directly to the maps application with all the restaurants information.

I did a little researching but couldn't find much except that this is supposed to work with movie names and a few other things.

My question, does anyone one know if this could be toggled "on" or "off", the reason i ask is because this friend of mine doesn't seem to have this feature. He's using 6+ and I;m on a 5s.

 

[yomnym]

No one's tried this? Seems pretty darn awesome but it doesn't seem to be something you could turn off unless turning off spotlight suggestions altogether.

 

[C DM]

It used to be present for dates and things of that nature to help setup a calendar event for example. There was no way to disable that. This seems to expand that.

 

[yomnym]

I don't really want to disable it, i think its pretty cool but somehow my friend doesn't have this feature on his 6+.

Anyone have any insight on why this could be?