One of the most important controversies Apple has had to weigh in relation to user privacy has clearly been Siri’s listening without our knowledge. Faced with this problem, Apple stopped its listening program and from iOS 13.2 gave us the possibility to participate in this improvement program consciously. In addition to being able to choose whether or not to participate, the company also allows us to delete the record history and in this article we tell you how to do it.
Keep in mind that the recordings do not include all the conversation we have with the assistant but only the invocation . That is, only the principle of the request is recorded to know if Siri had been activated correctly or not. This is why in many of the failed invocations private conversations or couples were recorded while having sex. Before we had no record of these recordings, but now we can give our consent or not.
How to disable Siri so it can’t hear us
First, if we do not want Siri to listen to us, we must not give consent in the initial configuration of the iPhone when we are asked about this matter. But if you gave it to him and want to go back and deactivate Siri so he doesn’t ‘spy on you’ you can follow these steps:
- Go to Settings> Privacy.
- Click on ‘Analysis and improvements’ that we will find almost at the end of the tab.
- We must look for the option ‘Improve Siri and Dictation’ and deactivate it by clicking on the switch on the right.
In this way Siri will not send the recordings of the summons to Apple for analysis in order to improve the reliability of the assistant. We must bear in mind that if we decide to participate in this improvement program, all the information that is sent is totally confidential and Apple opens us at no time from who are the recordings they receive. If you are interested in knowing more about the data processing you can check the official Apple website.
How to clear Siri’s listening history
In the case that you want to delete all the listening history that is stored in our equipment, it can be done in a really simple way by following the steps below:
- Go to ‘Settings’.
- Scroll down until you find the option ‘Siri and Search’ and click on it.
- Go to ‘Siri and Dctored History’.
- Click on ‘Delete Siri and Dictation History’.
By doing this we ensure that all recordings have disappeared from Apple servers that were linked to our iPhone. Although we have to keep in mind that if any of the recordings have been used to help improve Siri or Dictation they no longer belong to you so they will continue to be stored on the servers. By this they mean that the recordings that have months or years will no longer be deleted when they have been treated by them and unlink them from your equipment.
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