You may never have wondered, or yes, however, today we are going to deal with this issue that we are worried about, since, when we say “Hey Siri”this responds to us, so we can understand that the microphone of our iPhone is capturing what we say all the time.
However, it is not as worrying as it may seem, since everything we speak, supposedly, is encrypted, and if you are afraid, we will also teach you how to block this to not only increase privacy, but also the iPhone battery.
Siri spy me?
If we look at Apple's terms, we can see how everything we speak, write or see, is private, and although they use that data for commercial purposes, they are anonymous and supposedly encrypted, so we should not worry about it. However, news such as the last week, where Apple has lost a collective claim made by Users who say Siri spyed themleave much to think.
That is why, we will see how to deactivate all microphone permits, not only for Siri, but also for other applications such as Google or Alexa, who also use similar assistants and activation words that require continued use of the microphone.
The first way to eliminate micro permission to any app is through Settings> Privacy> Microphone> Disable the applications we want.
However, this only serves some such as Google or Alexa, since Siri is not governed by these configurations, and we must do it otherwise:
- Gonna Settings> Enter Siri and Search> Disable «Hey Siri“
In this way we will prevent Siri from listening to us all the time, or that is the theory, since we cannot confirm 100% that it is, since if we activate Siri in another way, such as by pressing the side button, we can talk to it, that is, the permits would not have been deactivated, so we will simply have to trust that Apple does not listen to us until we do not ask for it, what we do not ask. device, since I would not have to have the microphone on 24 hours a day.
Surely on some occasion you have talked to someone about a product, and, miraculously, after a few hours, your iPhone shows you advertising about it. It is clear that it is no coincidence, and that without looking for it you know what you want, because just like listening to the word Siri, it also listens to others, so our privacyalthough it is supposedly encrypted, it is in the air, and you will have to take it into account, disable permits, or not, since in the end it does not depend on us, and we must only be careful.
And you, are you one of those who are afraid of this type of technology?, Or, on the contrary, do you care who plans you while your conversations are not public and supposedly a robot who deciphers them to show you advertising and other interests? Leave us a comment with your opinion.
