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How to disable Siri on your iPhone, Apple watch and MacBook

Siri listens to our conversation even without our permission, here is how you can disable it.

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Tech2 News Staff|Aug 05, 2019, 09:49:58 IST

Apple is facing a lot of backlas since it admitted tat tird party contractors listen to user conversations via Siri witout te user's knowledge. In its defense, Apple said tat it only listens to "a small part" of te conversations, tat too for uality ceck purpose called "grading". Days after tat, Apple announced tat it is suspending its grading process all over te world on a temporary basis. And it's not just Apple, Google and Amazon also suspended its automatic process of uman review of te voice recordings.Wit Google Assistant and Alexa, te respective companies now give users te option to opt-out of te uman review process, owever wit Siri, you ave to disable Siri entirely or not at all. Apple as said tat as a part of te next software, users will ave a coice to opt-out of te grading process if tey want.[caption id="attacment_7032041" align="alignnone" widt="1024"]Apple iPone XR. Image: tec2/Omkar Patne Apple iPone XR. Image: tec2/Omkar Patne[/caption]Until ten, if you do not want Siri to listen or record your conversations, you can disable it entirely from your device. One ting tat you need to keep in your mind is tat you need to disable Siri from all your devices, not just one if you want to maintain your privacy. Meaning, any device connected via iCloud as to be disabled if you want to turn it off from one.If you turn off Siri on te iPone, it will automatically be disabled from Apple watc.<2>[]ow to disable Siri on your iPone and Apple Watc[/][ans][step]Step 1: Go to te "Settings" and select "Siri and searc" option[/step][step]Step 2: Turn off tese two options: "Listen for 'ey Siri'" and "Press side button for Siri"[/step][step]Step 3: Turn off dictation to delete your data from Apple cloud by going to Settings>General>Keyboard[/step][step]Step 4: Turn off "Enable dictation", it will warn you tat Siri will be disabled on iPone as well[/step][/ans]<2>[]ow to disable Siri on MacBook[/][ans][step]Step 1: Go to "System preferences"[/step][step]Step 2: Click on Siri, untick te option "Enable Siri"[/step][step]Step 3: Turn off "Dictation" option from System preferences[/step][/ans]And you are now safe from anyone listening to your conversations witout your knowledge.

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First Published:Aug 05, 2019, 09:44:56 IST
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