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Live text in iOS 15 is on-device (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212788 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212788) > Live Text uses on-device intelligence to

Live text in iOS 15 is on-device (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212788 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212788) > Live Text uses on-device intelligence to recognize text in photos across the entire system and on the web And as for AR Walking directions, i can't find any place documenting if it's on-device or cloud based, but i know Maps will download your route information from the cloud. But then again, if you're using GPS, i don't see how AR Walking Directions could do (more) harm. > The contact tracing protocol for Covid was anything but more surveillance Prior to Apple and Google releasing the contact tracing protocol, various governments had some interesting ideas that focused more on finding infected people than it did on protecting privacy. Contact tracing has actually improved privacy by a lot. You're literally only a random id number, and the way you get notified if you've been in contact is if your random number appears on a list that gets broadcast to your phone. The checking happens on-device. The authorities never know anything but your random id number.

mlindner 5y ago
Contact tracing is also disabled by default, so it's kind of moot.
walterbell 5y ago
> Live text in iOS 15 is on-device By default, "Siri and Search" are enabled to scan and learn from on-device content in every app, even if iCloud is disabled. To opt-out, the user must manually go through every app's Settings and disable multiple radio button defaults per app. Apple Configurator needs to allow device-wide opt-out of search indexing and harvesting of photos and app data, especially when Siri itself is disabled in Configurator.
- danielagos 5y ago
  "Siri and Search" is on-device, they just use iCloud to sync across devices (to avoid that, go to the iCloud settings and disable Siri): https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/siri-suggestions-search/ https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/siri-suggestions...
  - walterbell 5y ago
    The policy says that quite a bit of data is sent to Apple, but theoretically decoupled from the user: > To Make Suggestions and Search Results More Relevant, Some Information Is Sent to Apple and Not Associated with You. When you use Siri Suggestions, Look Up, Visual Look Up, or type in Search, Spotlight, Safari search, or #images search in Messages, any information sent to Apple does not identify you, and is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier. Your device may send information such as location, topics of interest (for example, cooking or basketball), your search queries, including visual search queries, suggestions you have selected, apps you use, and related device usage data to Apple. This information does not include search results that show files or content on your device. If you subscribe to music or video subscription services, the names of these services and the type of subscription may be sent to Apple. Your account name, number, and password will not be sent to Apple. This information is used to process your request and provide more relevant suggestions and search results, and is not linked to your Apple ID, email address, or other data Apple may have from your use of other Apple services. Aggregated information may be used to improve other Apple products and services. Common search queries may be shared with a web search engine to improve search results.

mlindner 5y ago

Contact tracing is also disabled by default, so it's kind of moot.

walterbell 5y ago

> Live text in iOS 15 is on-device By default, "Siri and Search" are enabled to scan and learn from on-device content in every app, even if iCloud is disabled. To opt-out, the user must manually go through every app's Settings and disable multiple radio button defaults per app. Apple Configurator needs to allow device-wide opt-out of search indexing and harvesting of photos and app data, especially when Siri itself is disabled in Configurator.

danielagos 5y ago
"Siri and Search" is on-device, they just use iCloud to sync across devices (to avoid that, go to the iCloud settings and disable Siri): https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/siri-suggestions-search/ https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/siri-suggestions...
- walterbell 5y ago
  The policy says that quite a bit of data is sent to Apple, but theoretically decoupled from the user: > To Make Suggestions and Search Results More Relevant, Some Information Is Sent to Apple and Not Associated with You. When you use Siri Suggestions, Look Up, Visual Look Up, or type in Search, Spotlight, Safari search, or #images search in Messages, any information sent to Apple does not identify you, and is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier. Your device may send information such as location, topics of interest (for example, cooking or basketball), your search queries, including visual search queries, suggestions you have selected, apps you use, and related device usage data to Apple. This information does not include search results that show files or content on your device. If you subscribe to music or video subscription services, the names of these services and the type of subscription may be sent to Apple. Your account name, number, and password will not be sent to Apple. This information is used to process your request and provide more relevant suggestions and search results, and is not linked to your Apple ID, email address, or other data Apple may have from your use of other Apple services. Aggregated information may be used to improve other Apple products and services. Common search queries may be shared with a web search engine to improve search results.