Ask Siri, Dictation & Privacy

Siri is designed to protect your information and

enable you to choose what you share.

When you make requests, Siri sends certain data about you to
Apple to help respond to your requests

When you use Siri and Dictation, the things you say and dictate will
be sent to Apple to process your requests. In addition to these audio
recordings, your device will send other Siri Data, such as:

contact names, nicknames, and relationships (e.g., “my dad”), if

you set them up in your contacts;
music, books and podcasts you enjoy;
names of your and your Family Sharing members’ devices;
names of devices and members of a shared home in the Home
app; and
the names of your photo albums, apps installed on your device,
and shortcuts you added through Siri.

Your requests are associated with a random identifier, not your

Apple ID.

Siri Data, which also includes computer generated transcriptions of

your Siri requests, is used to help Siri and Dictation on your iOS
device and any Apple Watch or HomePod set up with your iOS
device, understand you better and recognize what you say.

Siri Data is associated with a random, device generated identifier.

This random identifier is not linked to your Apple ID, email address,
or other data Apple may have from your use of other Apple services.

Siri Data and your requests are not used to build a marketing
profile, and are never sold to anyone.

If you have Location Services turned on, the location of your device
at the time you make a request will also be sent to Apple to help Siri
and Dictation improve the accuracy of its response to your requests.

Only the minimum data is stored by Siri on Apple servers

By default, Apple stores transcripts of your interactions with Siri

and Dictation and may review a subset of these transcripts. You can
opt in to have the audio of your interactions with Siri and Dictation
stored and reviewed by Apple employees to develop and improve
Siri by going to Settings > Privacy > Analytics & Improvement >
Improve Siri & Dictation.

Your request history is associated with the random identifier for up

to six months. Your request history may include transcripts, audio
for users who have opted in to Improve Siri and Dictation, and
related request data such as device specifications, device
configuration, performance statistics, and the approximate location
of your device at the time the request was made. After six months,
your request history is dissociated from the random identifier and
may be retained for up to two years to help Apple develop and
improve Siri, Dictation, and other language processing features like
Voice Control. The small subset of requests that have been reviewed
may be kept beyond two years, without the random identifier, for
ongoing improvement of Siri.

If you choose to allow third-party apps to integrate with “Use with

Siri”, some data from these apps may be sent to Apple to help Siri
understand your request, and portions of your request will be
shared with the app to help provide a response or take an action
(e.g., send a message or book a ride). When Siri interacts with a
third-party app on your behalf, you are subject to that app's terms
and conditions and privacy policy. If you choose to allow apps to use
Siri for transcription, the voice data to be transcribed may be sent to
Apple.

Your Siri settings will sync across your Apple devices using end-to-
end encryption if you use iCloud. If you have set up Hey Siri, a small
sample of your requests will also sync using end-to-end encryption
to improve personalized Hey Siri recognition on each device.

You have choice and control

You can turn off Ask Siri or Dictation at any time. To turn off Ask
Siri, open Settings > Siri & Search, then slide the Listen for “Hey
Siri” and Press Home or Side Button for Siri switches to “off”. To
turn off Dictation, open Settings > General > Keyboard, then slide
the Enable Dictation switch to “off”. If you turn off both Ask Siri and
Dictation, Apple will delete Siri Data that is associated with the
random identifier.

Request history associated with a random identifier and retained

for six months or less can be deleted by going to Settings > Siri &
Search > Siri History and tapping “Delete Siri & Dictation History.”

You can control which apps can integrate with “Use with Siri” at any
time at Settings > Siri & Search > [app name] > Use with Siri.

You may choose to turn off Location Services for Siri. To do so, open
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Siri & Dictation and select
“Never”.

If you do not want Siri personalization to sync across your devices,

you can disable Siri under iCloud settings.

You can also restrict the ability to use Siri & Dictation altogether
under Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions >
Allowed Apps > Siri & Dictation.

You can control which apps use Siri for transcription in Settings >
Privacy > Speech Recognition.

By using Siri or Dictation, you agree and consent to Apple’s and its
subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance,
processing, and use of this information, including your voice input
data and Siri Data, to provide and improve Siri and dictation
functionality in Apple products and services. At all times,
information received by Apple from your use of Siri or Dictation will
be treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy, which can be
found at www.apple.com/privacy.