Ask Siri, Dictation and Privacy | Hacker News Reader

Ask Siri, Dictation and Privacy

apple.com

37 pointselpakal9 comments

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Siri Privacy Policy – Requests Can Be Stored for Up to 2 Years")

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

OK. But it's not a "view", it's a fact from the terms. If I can't post the line then it looks like I'm just reposting the terms, but searching through HN history tells me this one bit has not been surfaced before.

I mean your view of which facts from an article are worth emphasizing. There are infinitely many facts*, and they don't select themselves. People do that, based on their views.

> If I can't post the line then it looks like I'm just reposting the terms

I hear you, and yes there's an upside when the title explains why the article is being posted. But there's a downside to letting submitters editorialize titles according to what they themselves think or feel. Titles are the biggest influence on threads by far, so this is important.

Basically it's a tradeoff, with no perfect solution. The optimal solution (that we know of) is what I described above: post a comment explaining why you posted the article.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> When You Make Requests, Siri Sends Certain Data About You to Apple to Process and Help Respond to Your Requests

I noticed that when I drove out of cell reception range and Siri's speech recognition stopped working and I couldn't request an album from my music library; it's a cruel mockery of whatever "Neural Engine" chip they boast about being on the handset when they offload the work to the cloud somewhere.

And the options is to "disable Siri" and not "disable sending data to remote servers and save there", right?

It doesn’t always seem consistent. I’ve noticed Siri Dictation will work but other things without a connection are hit or miss.

> When you use Siri, your device will indicate in Siri Settings if the things you say are processed on your device and not sent to Siri servers. Otherwise, your voice inputs are sent to and processed on Siri servers. In all cases, transcripts of your interactions will be sent to Apple to process your requests.

My iphone se3 doesn't indicate have any indicator of on device or off device processing.

Same here, iPhone15 though

This is not news, and has been the case since Siri's inception.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com