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Apple advances its privacy leadership with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, and watchOS 8
Apple Newsroom, 2021
Read the originalRead on October 19, 2026
- What it is
- Apple's press release dated June 7, 2021, announcing privacy features with iOS 15 at WWDC 2021. It says that with on-device speech recognition, the audio of users' requests is processed on the iPhone or iPad by default.
- How much weight it carries
- Apple's own press release, dated on the page. It describes the feature as Apple announced it for iOS 15 beta, not the shipped behavior of every device or region, and it does not give a launch date beyond the announcement.
Facts taken from this source
- Apple said that with on-device speech recognition, the audio of users' requests is processed on the iPhone or iPad by default.
“With on-device speech recognition, the audio of users’ requests is processed right on their iPhone or iPad by default.” (Process Audio of Siri Requests on Device)