Understand Siri and Your Privacy
How does Siri make its magic? It sends most of what you ask it to Apple where servers process your speech to return an answer. Here are answers to some common questions about what that means for your privacy.
Is Apple Keeping Track of What I Say?
Apple used to store Siri voice recordings—assigned a random, device-generated number, or identifier, as opposed to being associated with your name or Apple ID—in order to improve Siri’s performance. After 6 months, that data was disassociated from the identifier and then stored for up to 18 months more for testing.
However, in the summer of 2019, a whistleblower revealed that Apple contractors quality control regularly heard short snippets of sometimes very private ...
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