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But how does it explain the exact time that was suggested?

Same thing. A previous appointment at the same time. The date is suggested because they selected June 16th so it's just a suggested time from previous calendar entries. I use this feature all the time on my phone.

Except that the article says he just typed "Dr" in the text field. June 16th was suggested by Siri.

When you go to input an appointment in Apple's Calendar app you can do it one of a few ways:

1) From another app, which obviously this author didn't do 2) Tapping the "+" icon on the top corner with a date in the calendar below highlighted. The New Event screen comes up with the highlighted date automatically filled in the Starts and Ends fields. This seems the most likely method if they were manually entering an appointment.

The point is, there is not enough detail to suggest that Apple listens to phone calls when there are other more plausible methods (and certainly more testable) that Siri could have used to obtain the information.

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