How to Limit Your Siri
Electronic Frontier Foundation has a guide on limiting how Siri AI can access your apps and data.
Apple claims what’s sent to PCC is not stored by the company after it is processed, but there are certain types of data or certain apps you might have on your phone that are not worth the risk. That’s especially true if you’re using a feature like Advanced Data Protection, which turns on end-to-end encryption for much of what’s stored in iCloud. Sending data that’s stored with end-to-end encryption off your device and into the cloud—no matter the privacy promises—is a fundamental change to the risk assessment you should make. “Private” means the system is engineered so that Apple shouldn’t be able to see or store the data, but it doesn’t mean it’s encrypted or doesn’t leave the device.
This leaves the privacy of certain apps up to a strange combination of an app developer’s choices and your own. You can, of course, disable Siri entirely (Settings > Siri > "Turn Off Siri"), or choose not to invoke Siri to ask questions, but perhaps you don’t want to fully disable or disengage with the system. Thankfully, you can put some guardrails on Siri AI’s access. Once you’ve updated to iOS 27, here are the steps to take.
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Link:
- How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27, by Thorin Klosowski, Electric Frontier Foundation