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Ask Siri, Dictation and Privacy

by elpakal on 7/24/24, 7:12 PM with 9 comments

• by dang on 7/24/24, 7:32 PM

  Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  (Submitted title was "Siri Privacy Policy – Requests Can Be Stored for Up to 2 Years")

  If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

• by shaggie76 on 7/25/24, 12:42 AM

  > When You Make Requests, Siri Sends Certain Data About You to Apple to Process and Help Respond to Your Requests

  I noticed that when I drove out of cell reception range and Siri's speech recognition stopped working and I couldn't request an album from my music library; it's a cruel mockery of whatever "Neural Engine" chip they boast about being on the handset when they offload the work to the cloud somewhere.

• by commandersaki on 7/25/24, 1:24 AM

  > When you use Siri, your device will indicate in Siri Settings if the things you say are processed on your device and not sent to Siri servers. Otherwise, your voice inputs are sent to and processed on Siri servers. In all cases, transcripts of your interactions will be sent to Apple to process your requests.

  My iphone se3 doesn't indicate have any indicator of on device or off device processing.

• by flounder3 on 7/24/24, 8:20 PM

  This is not news, and has been the case since Siri's inception.