Opting Out of “Help Apple Improve Search”

I find that I’m often accidentally typing or pasting into the new Type to Siri window because I’ve accidentally triggered it by double-tapping the Command key.

…do you use Type to Siri enough to keep it bound to something you accidentally trigger that often?

If I didn’t have a key on my keyboard for Siri I’d just leave it in the menu bar, buried under a layer of ice.

On my Mac the keybinding for Type-to-Siri is Globe + S. I assumed this was the default, but maybe I changed it at some point.

@Nathan I turns out that I never use Type to Siri, but I had it enabled to give it a try. My full-sized Apple keyboard has the fn key in a bad place so it’s hard to type Globe-S.

I disabled Siri altogether on my Mac, it's mostly useless, and I really should disable it on my phone.

I had to disable Type to Siri on the iPad because if I missed pressing the spacebar by a quarter centimeter and accidentally tapped the bottom bar that’s a split hair underneath the keyboard, I’d accidentally trigger it.

> macOS Sequoia introduces another new feature labelled Help Apple Improve Search, which sends and stores various search queries from Safari, Spotlight, and other sources to improve search results.

> This feature, too, is enabled by default and is well hidden at the very bottom of System Settings > Spotlight.

Yea wtf. Why isn't this in the "Privacy" section with the other privacy related preferences? It's as if they don't want you to find this switch...

>I’ve accidentally triggered it by double-tapping the Command key.

I'm still torn between "type to Siri is so much less friction that I use it a lot more on my Mac, though honestly mostly to set timers" and "turns out I have a _ton_ of muscle memory that makes me accidentally hit cmd twice and be confused why the thing I intended to do (NOT Siri!) isn't happening".

And I haven't seen this in a while, but in early 15.x releases, the type-to-Siri window would sometimes first appear on one display then seemingly disappear, but what actually happened is that macOS decided _after already showing the window_ that it would prefer to show it on a different display. Without animation. Just… shove it somewhere 50 cm to the side on a different display. Not a huge issue, but felt like they hadn't thoroughly tested it on a multi-monitor setup.

Honestly, the way there's cmd-tab, Mission Control* (née Exposé), Spotlight, regular Siri, _and_ type to Siri (did I forget any?) feels poorly thought out. Why are there so many slightly related yet different "full-screen control things on your Mac" popups? Wouldn't it be better, for instance, if Spotlight and Siri were one window, perhaps with two tabs, which you can between with arrow keys?

I'm sure there's beginner-level "so with one of them, you can search, but with the other, you can invoke commands and also kind of search, but differently, and with the third, you can also do that, but with text instead of speech" confusion. But beyond that, it would solve the "let's pick increasingly bizarre keyboard shortcuts" thing. cmd-space for Spotlight, fn-fn (globe-globe) for dictation, cmd-cmd for type-to-Siri, "yo dingus" for regular Siri. It seems to me you ought to consolidate cmd-space and cmd-cmd into one and the same thing.

Also, why is Spotlight centered and Siri is in the top right?

*) I recently learnt on Masto that you can go from cmd-tab to Mission Control with the up arrow! Neat.