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Ask Siri, Dictation & Privacy (Quoted)
Siri is designed to protect your information and enable you to choose what you share.
Ask Siri, Dictation & Privacy outlines the default behaviour for Siri and Dictation. If you opt in to Improve Siri and Dictation, additional data is collected, stored and reviewed. For more information, visit www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/improve-siri-dictation.
When You Make Requests, Siri Sends Certain Data About You to Apple to Process and Help Respond to Your Requests
When you use Siri on this device, the things you say are sent to and processed on Siri servers.
When you use Dictation, your device will indicate in Keyboard System Settings if your voice inputs and transcripts for general text Dictation (for example, composing messages and notes, but not dictating in a search box) are processed on your device and not sent to Siri servers. Otherwise, the things you dictate are sent to and processed on the server.
When you use Siri and Dictation, your device will send other Siri Data to Apple, such as:
âą Contact names, nicknames and relationships (for example, âmy dadâ) if you set them up in your contacts
âą Music and podcasts you enjoy
âą Names of your and your Family Sharing membersâ devices
⹠Names of accessories, homes, scenes, shared home members in the Home app and Apple TV user profiles
âą Labels for items, such as peopleâs names in Photos, alarm names and names of Reminders lists
âą Names of apps installed on your device and shortcuts you added through Siri
Siri Data, which also includes computer-generated transcripts of your Siri requests, is used to help Siri and Dictation on your Mac understand you better and recognise what you say.
Siri Data, including your Siri requests, is associated with a random, device-generated identifier. This random identifier is not linked to your Apple ID, email address or other data Apple may have from your use of other Apple services.
Siri Data is not used to build a marketing profile, and is never sold to anyone.
If you have Location Services turned on, the location of your device at the time you make a request will also be sent to Apple to help Siri and Dictation improve the accuracy of its response to your requests. To deliver relevant responses, Apple may use the IP address of your internet connection to approximate your location by matching it to a geographic region.
Only the Minimum Data Is Stored on Siri Servers
When you use Siri, Apple stores transcripts of your interactions with Siri and may review a subset of these transcripts to develop and improve Siri, Dictation and other language processing features like Voice Control.
When you use Dictation, your device will indicate in Keyboard System Settings if your voice inputs and transcripts for general text Dictation (for example, composing messages and notes, but not dictating in a search box) are processed on your device and not sent to or stored on Siri servers by default. Otherwise, Apple stores transcripts of the things you dictate and may review a subset of these transcripts to develop and improve Siri, Dictation and other language processing features like Voice Control.
Your request history is associated with the random identifier for up to six months. Your request history may include transcripts, audio for users who have opted in to Improve Siri and Dictation, Siri Data and related data such as device specifications, device configuration, performance statistics, and the approximate location of your device at the time the request was made. After six months, your request history is dissociated from the random identifier and may be retained for up to two years to help Apple develop and improve Siri, Dictation and other language processing features like Voice Control. The small subset of requests that have been reviewed may be kept beyond two years, without the random identifier, for ongoing improvement of Siri.
If you choose to allow third-party apps to integrate with Use with Ask Siri, some data from these apps may be sent to Apple to help Siri understand your request, and portions of your request will be shared with the app to help provide a response or take an action (for example, send a message or book a ride). When Siri interacts with a third-party app on your behalf, you are subject to that appâs terms and conditions and privacy policy. If you choose to allow apps to use Siri for transcription, the voice data to be transcribed may be sent to Apple.
Your Siri settings will sync across your Apple devices using end-to-end encryption if you use iCloud. If you have set up Hey Siri, a small sample of your requests will also sync using end-to-end encryption to improve personalised Hey Siri recognition on each device. The personalised speech recognition models and your interactions with Dictation that are performed on device may leverage your on-device information to improve accuracy and model performance.
You Have Choice and Control
You can turn off Ask Siri or Dictation at any time. To turn off Ask Siri, go to System Settings > Siri & Spotlight, then turn off Ask Siri. To turn off Dictation, open System Settings > Keyboard > Dictation and turn off Dictation. If you turn off both Ask Siri and Dictation, Apple will delete Siri Data that is associated with the random identifier.
Request history associated with a random identifier and retained for six months or less can be deleted by going to System Settings > Siri & Spotlight > Siri History and clicking Delete Siri & Dictation History.
You can control which apps can integrate with Use with Ask Siri at any time by going to System Settings > Siri & Spotlight > Siri Suggestions & Privacy > [app name] > Use with Ask Siri.
You can turn off Location Services for Siri by going to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Privacy > Location Services, then turning off Siri & Dictation.
If you do not want Siri personalisation to sync across your devices, you can disable Siri by going to System Settings > [your name] > iCloud, and deselecting Siri.
You can also restrict the ability to use Siri & Dictation altogether by going to System Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy > Apps > Siri & Dictation.
You can control which apps use Siri for transcription by going to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Speech Recognition.
By using Siri or Dictation, you agree and consent to Appleâs and its subsidiariesâ and agentsâ transmission, collection, maintenance, processing and use of this information to provide and improve Siri and Dictation functionality in Apple products and services. Apple may process and store this information with trusted third-party service providers. At all times, information collected by Apple will be treated in accordance with Appleâs Privacy Policy, which can be found at apple.com/uk/privacy