Good luck removing<p>2019-05-03 Removed allowSiriServerLogging from the Restrictions Payload.<p>[0] <a href="https://developer.apple.com/business/documentation/Configuration-Profile-Reference.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/business/documentation/Configura...</a>
Stopping Apple from listening to Siri, stopping Google from listening to Google Assistant, stopping Amazon from listening to Alexa, stopping Google from collecting data from android devices - these sort of articles and arguments seem flawed right at the title.<p>Those companies have created those devices to listen to you, and your surrounding, to understand you better and serve you the right product or service or their ads. You can not have both smooth service and complete privacy if the data is restricted, as the system will not get to learn you.
Funny to see an article promoting the use of Apple Device Profiles on the front page.<p>There was just an article last week on the front page describing how installing device profiles is unacceptable: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20514833" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20514833</a>
<i>INSTRUCTIONS—For those who wish to do this on their own without downloading and installing a third-party's profile to their device(s) (and have a Mac):</i><p>1. Download Apple Configurator 2 from the Mac App Store.<p>2. Open the app, plug in your iOS device, and click on it to activate working on it.<p>3. Command+N to create a new Profile.<p>4. Under General, fill out the mandatory info (only name is required).<p>5. Click Restrictions, then click Configure. Un-check the 10th top-level checkbox that says "Allow server-side logging of Siri commands". Take a look at other things you'd like to control.<p>6. Command+S to save the profile. Close the window.<p>7. Click on Profiles in left sidebar. Click Add Profiles. Select the profile you just saved. Ensure your device is unlocked, and it will be added to your device.<p>8. Go into Settings app on your device. There will be an entry at the top that says "Profile Downloaded". Tap into that and select to install the profile.
How about a better question -- if you turn off everything Siri in the settings, are there circumstances in which an iPhone will <i>still</i> send audio to their servers?<p>This to me would be the only <i>reasonable</i> way of stopping Apple from listening in, while still using an iPhone.
Not Apple, but I'm pretty happy with the Amazon firestick. It only listens when you press the button on the remote. Seems acceptable if that's all Amazon is logging.
"Hey Siri, can you stop Apple from listening to my Siri recordings?"<p>"Hey Siri!… Siri?!"<p>P.S. If someone out there has an Apple device, I'm interested in knowing what the actual response to this request is.
Another option is of course to simply not use an iOS device.<p>Having to download some third-party thing to disable it, really shouldn't be necessary. There should be a simple setting in iOS to turn Siri's listening on or off.