![]() After six months the company may create another copy of the recording that has no personal ‘identifier’ information, which it keeps for further analysis for up to two years. And the company insists that it “doesn’t gather your personal information to sell to advertisers or other organisations”.īut in order to continually improve the quality of its voice-recognition and artificial-intelligence systems, Apple does keep your voice recordings for up to six months. Other Apple devices, such as the Apple Watch, may send more detailed information to Apple – such as your location, if you ask for the weather report when you’re going out for a jog – but that will depend on the specific activity that you’re taking part in at the time.Īpple’s policy also states that the recordings are sent to Apple using only an ‘anonymous ID’ – rather than identifying you by name, or your personal Apple ID – and that the recordings are encrypted to protect the privacy of your communications with Apple. While Siri uses machine learning to help it become more intelligent it still needs the human touch to help it learn. Given that Siri has often been criticised for not being good enough and that this was one way to make Siri better perhaps it’s completely acceptable that there are people, potentially, listening in. So why were people listening in? Apple had employed contractors to analyse the conversations that its users had with Siri in order to assess whether the answers provided had met the demands of the user. Why is Apple listening to my conversations? Except that people are listening as we found out from the Guardian article in 2019. Apple claims that this information is anonymous but that’s not completely true because it does need some associated data, such as your location, too give an accurate response.īut the recording doesn’t need to be listened to by a person, so there should be no danger of someone overhearing your conversation. In many cases Siri needs to connect to Apple’s servers in order to carry out your enquiry, the request can’t be carried out ‘on device’. ![]() You might be wondering why it’s necessary for anything to be recorded at all. ![]() Perhaps an advert comes on the TV that uses the phrase “Hey Siri”, perhaps another phrase triggers it, or perhaps you have Siri set to be triggered by something else, such as Raise to Wake in the case of your Apple Watch. There are other reasons why Siri might become alert and start to record what you say. They are always listening out for that trigger phrase so in a sense they are listening to you, but they should only be recording if they actually hear that phrase. Siri and other voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant have a trigger phrase that means they will react to something you say. Why is Siri listening to my conversations? We’ll explain how to turn Siri listening off below, you can jump to that section ![]() Luckily you can now choose to opt out of providing recordings and its also possible to stop Siri from listening to you. All this might have been forgivable if Apple had been more transparent about how these recordings were being used, but it was not possible to opt out of providing these Siri recordings prior to the release of iOS 13.2 at the end of October 2019.
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