How to stop Apple from listening to your Siri recordings

A report from The Guardian last week highlighted privacy concerns about Siri recordings being listened to by its contractors. While Apple has responded by saying that only 1% of Siri activations are reviewed by humans and that Apple IDs are not associated with them, many users are asking for the ability to opt-out of Siri recordings being saved to Apple’s servers. The Guardian report was based on a source who claimed to be an Apple contractor that “grades” Siri by listening to user’s recordings. However, the whistleblower brought up concerns about the private conversations that contractors hear during the process and that names, location, contacts, and other data is attached to the recordings and could be misused by contractors.

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Apple highlighted that Apple IDs aren’t associated with the recordings and that users can turn off location data for Siri (or turn off Siri altogether) on their iPhone, iPad and other Apple devices. However, almost 65% of 9to5Mac readers said they want an option to turn off the ability for Apple to record and listen to Siri activations in our recent poll. Now, Jan Kaiser has shared an iOS profile to turn off logging of server-side Siri commands on GitHub (if you prefer to make your own profile to do this, head below).