Hello ​@NYCregularguy 

Thanks for your post. It’s not possible to disable this feature, but we would welcome your vote and additional comments you might like to add this existing suggestion:

I would really like the option to turn this feature off. The post with the voting option is from 2 years ago. There are 4 pages of comments on it, with comments as recent as 1 month ago, majority saying they would like the option to turn off this feature. Do we know if Strava actually plans to act on clear user feedback such as this?

We don't, Strava isn't very open about their roadmap / upcoming features. I suppose they have their reasons, but tbh I’d personally appreciate more communication too, especially on those ideas with 3-digits vote count… - Well, fingers crossed that all this feedback is taken into consideration, and that we’ll see some improvement on this (you’re certainly not alone unhappy with the lack of communication). 

It seems like such a simple feature to turn off past activities reminders, I am surprised Stava has not offered it. It’s should be minimal engineering. While I do find them distracting my main complaint is that they carry a lot of emotional weight reminding me of a person that I am no longer with. These memories can be upsetting to the point that I don’t want to use the app just in case I get reminded again of the past I am trying not to think about. Seriously. @strava just turn them off! It’s freaking torture every time I log in.