Toggle the switch to off, and you will also get the chance to stop the app showing up in Siri’s search and app suggestions feature.įinally, you can stop Siri from using what it learns about you on your iPhone across all your other iCloud devices. That will prevent information from the app appearing in search, look up, lock screen and keyboard.
Click on the arrow beside the app, and you’ll have the option to turn off Siri & Suggestions. Below the Siri Suggestions section, you’ll see a list of your apps. If you don’t want to adopt a scorched earth policy to the search suggestions at least, you can also prevent or grant Siri access to individual apps. You can disable this by turning Siri Suggestions off for the lock screen, search and lookup features. For example, if you usually leave home for your daily commute at 8am, Siri might tell you via a notification how long it will take you to get to the office, without you having to ask. You can also switch off Siri suggestions, which looks at how you use your device and makes suggestions to you based on that data. Turning off both of these options will also disable the assistant on your Apple Watch, if you have one. Disable Listen for Hey Siri and Press Side Button for Siri. Go to Settings>Siri & Search and go to the Ask Siri section. In iOS 11+, there are more options to consider.
Want to break up with Siri? If you are using Siri in iOS 10 or earlier, you can simply switch it off under Settings>General, and toggle Siri to off. If you’ve had enough of your virtual assistant, you can disable it. But what if you aren’t happy to be part of the experiment? All these services thrive on data, and the more they are used, the more accurate they can become. Then there is the question of how your voice commands are being used, and who has access to them. If you’ve ever had a look at your voice history on your Amazon account or taken a peek at your voice activity on your Google account, it’s an eye opener.
Say the wrong thing and suddenly Alexa will be listening to your conversations. Press the wrong button and Siri will activate. Siri and Google Assistant may be slightly more helpful and far less annoying than Microsoft’s paper clip, but they still have a habit of popping up at inopportune moments. Clippy was consigned to the scrapheap, and we may have danced a little on his grave.īut the concept of a digital helper hasn’t gone away - it has just evolved. “It looks like you’re trying to write a letter!” he would chirp, while you cursed him and tried to shut him down.Ĭlippy met his end in Office XP in 2001, apart from a brief attempt to resurrect him as a sticker set on Microsoft Teams, superceded by better tools in Office itself. Hands up who remembers Clippy? The Microsoft Office assistant you loved to hate would pop up at the most inopportune moments.
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