hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and you may have heard recently that people
are listening to Siri conversations now this is not completely tied to you
specifically it's actually anonymous and it uses differential privacy to send
that information anonymously but what they're doing is when you use Siri and
you ask something and maybe it gets it wrong what they do is they send that
information to Apple anonymously and then someone from a third party actually
listens to that confirms what is said and trains the artificial intelligence
using the neural network and this may or may not have been known I knew about
this quite a while ago and Google does the same thing as well as Amazon with
Alexa and also obviously with the Google assistant so if you want to stop that
which I would recommend at this point since Apple has actually halted their
third party involvement as has Google at this point but there's a way to prevent
that and still use all the features without completely disabling Siri now if
you want to disable Siri of course you can do that just go to settings go to
your name here at the top go to iCloud and then scroll down and turn off Siri
altogether if you don't want to use Siri that's the most secure way it will
completely disable everything however if you want to continue using Siri you can
either modify some settings let me show you that back under settings just scroll
down until you get to Siri and search and under Syrian search you can turn off
if you use the word Siri with the word hey in front of it to recognize your
device or have your device recognize your voice and then ask it a question
you can turn that off altogether and just leave it for the side button and
then that will work a little bit more securely however if you want to just
stop any information sending from your phone to third-party servers or anything
like that there's a way to do that now you can do this yourself using the Apple
configurator on a Mac it's a free app in the App Store but it is a little bit
involved if you're not familiar with it and you do have to have a Mac so keep
that in mind you'll need to install Apple configurator 2 on a Mac if you
want to do this yourself once you have it installed go ahead and open it up and
then in the upper left go to file new profile and then you'll click on
restrictions on the left and click configure
now what you're looking for is to disallow the server-side logging of Siri
commands so you uncheck that and anything else you don't want that's why
I said it's involved but then go ahead and exit it save it and then install the
profile however someone has created it already it's very simple and if you're
worried about the privacy of course you can create one yourself but I'll link to
this profile in the description below and this profile is on github and all
you do is direct link download it so you tap on the link say allow it and then
it'll say profile is downloaded so we'll hit close and we'll go back to settings
then we'll go back to the top it says profile downloaded however if you're not
seeing that word there you can just go to general scroll to the bottom where it
says profiles now we'll go ahead and tap on the profile and it says prevent
server-side logging of Siri conversations let's go ahead and hit
install put in our passcode and it's going to say the profile is not signed
that's okay go ahead and hit install and now will prevent any information from
leaving your phone when it's actually using Siri so I would recommend this for
now if you care about privacy and information leaving people have actually
picked up a lot of conversations they probably shouldn't have in a while it's
completely anonymous it is also recognizable by your voice so
it's actually using the microphone so maybe it's a celebrity or something like
that they could recognize the voice and sometimes as you know Siri just
activates and picks up information and it messes it shouldn't necessarily be
doing that so people have picked up everything from something that isn't
legal to all sorts of illicit situations as well as just regular conversations so
I would highly recommend installing that profile now the good thing about all of
this is that Apple has listened and they said in a future version they're
actually going to put a switch to disallow the server-side information
being sent as well so that'll be really nice to see in a future update but let
me know your thoughts in the comments below of course you can delete that
profile if you don't want it there just go to settings go back to general go
down to profiles tap on the profile and hit remove it's not a big deal if you
don't like it being there and of course like I said you can create your own send
it to yourself and install it if you'd like but that's it let me know what you
think in the comments below of course I'll link this wallpaper as I always do
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