{"id":26867,"date":"2019-10-13T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26867"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:27:13","slug":"opting-out-of-sharing-siri-audio-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/13\/opting-out-of-sharing-siri-audio-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Opting Out of Sharing Siri Audio Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/10\/10\/siri-privacy-options-ios-13-2\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/10\/10\/siri-privacy-options-ios-13-2\/\">\n<p>Today&rsquo;s iOS 13.2 beta introduces a new option that allows iPhone and iPad users to delete their Siri and Dictation history and opt out of sharing audio recordings, features that Apple promised after being called out for its Siri quality evaluation processes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And on Catalina, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1183015665285894145\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1183015665285894145\">\n<p>That&rsquo;s definitely more explicit than before&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatHumanJason\/status\/1183021142061342720\">Jason<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatHumanJason\/status\/1183021142061342720\">\n<p>That&rsquo;s an improvement, but it still says &ldquo;Not now&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;No&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freerunnering\/status\/1183104757096996865\">Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freerunnering\/status\/1183104757096996865\">\n<p>This year Apple lost the ability to write &lsquo;no&rsquo;, instead they&rsquo;ve had to replace it with &lsquo;not now&rsquo; everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s their <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/16\/ios-8-and-icloud-drive\/\">new<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/12\/apple-pushes-iphone-6s-pop-up-ads-to-app-store\/\">design<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agilethumbs\/status\/972189070406311936\">pattern<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/apple-contractors-regularly-hear-confidential-details-on-siri-recordings\/\">Apple Contractors &ldquo;Regularly Hear Confidential Details&rdquo; on Siri Recordings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"opting-out-of-sharing-siri-audio-recordings-update-2019-10-14\">Update (2019-10-14): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kavehv\/status\/1183466491275927553\">Kaveh Vaghefi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kavehv\/status\/1183466491275927553\">\n<p>This is nice and all, but where is this for the HomePod, which is sitting in your home and always listening?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"opting-out-of-sharing-siri-audio-recordings-update-2019-10-16\">Update (2019-10-16): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2019\/10\/11\/new-in-ios-13-2b2\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2019\/10\/11\/new-in-ios-13-2b2\">\n<p>In a briefing with Apple, I was told that even if you opt in to &ldquo;Improve Siri &amp; Dictation&rdquo;, no one at Apple will ever review a Siri interaction until 24 hours have passed. So if you ever do say anything to Siri you don&rsquo;t want reviewed, you have a full day to delete your history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The setting and history seem to be per-device&mdash;with the Mac and HomePod versions unavailable so far.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"opting-out-of-sharing-siri-audio-recordings-update-2019-11-05\">Update (2019-11-05): <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2019\/10\/29\/apple-releases-macos-10-15-1-catalina-watchos-6-1-and-tvos-13-2\/\">Josh Centers and Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2019\/10\/29\/apple-releases-macos-10-15-1-catalina-watchos-6-1-and-tvos-13-2\/\">\n<p>Apple should be ashamed of the Improve Siri &amp; Dictation splash screen. The choices are &ldquo;Share Audio Recordings&rdquo; and &ldquo;Not Now,&rdquo; which implies that you will eventually want to share your Siri recordings&mdash;resistance is futile. Would it have killed some marketer to say &ldquo;Keep Audio Recordings Private&rdquo; or something similar? Plus, you can change this setting later, but Apple hides it in System Preferences &gt; Privacy &gt; Analytics &amp; Improvements. And no, searching for &ldquo;Siri&rdquo; in System Preferences won&rsquo;t find that preference pane.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"opting-out-of-sharing-siri-audio-recordings-update-2019-11-06\">Update (2019-11-06): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freerunnering\/status\/1191948682603749377\">Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Freerunnering\/status\/1191948682603749377\">\n<p>This is a pattern Apple uses all over the place now, and it&rsquo;s so unbelievably user hostile.<\/p>\n<p>It reads as being like the &lsquo;update now or later&rsquo; messages &amp; makes me think the choices are &ldquo;give in now, or be periodically nagged until you eventually give in later&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"opting-out-of-sharing-siri-audio-recordings-update-2020-01-03\">Update (2020-01-03): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandofsky\/status\/1181991873457451008\">Ben Sandofsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandofsky\/status\/1181991873457451008\">\n<p>At some point Apple decided it was fine to use Settings for growth hacking. First we got Apple Pay prompts, and this year we get AppleCare.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;days remaining&rdquo; adds a time constraint, because Settings should pressure you like a used car salesman.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Interface Guidelines says buttons should use verbs. For example, &ldquo;Continue&rdquo; and &ldquo;Decline.&rdquo; When a salesman calls the shots you get[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Today&rsquo;s iOS 13.2 beta introduces a new option that allows iPhone and iPad users to delete their Siri and Dictation history and opt out of sharing audio recordings, features that Apple promised after being called out for its Siri quality evaluation processes. And on Catalina, Steve Troughton-Smith notes: That&rsquo;s definitely more explicit than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-10-13T18:04:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"212971a3-3cc3-4a33-8ba7-f3ee4bac49f5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-01-03T19:27:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AISlxozzDSjOLp_PuS6xJ9Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1836,1584,31,1667,30,1666,355,247],"class_list":["post-26867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dark-patterns","tag-homepod","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-privacy","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26867"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27762,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26867\/revisions\/27762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}