Apple The updated Siri will reportedly have a function that automatically deletes chats.
As Bloomberg News I mentioned Out on Sunday (May 17), this is a feature borrowed from the company’s Messages app, and comes ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next month, where privacy is expected to be a major topic.
the Standalone Siri appBloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote that it is intended to serve as a repository of past Siri conversations and serve as an AI-powered chatbot similar to… OpenAI gbt chat and Anthropic Claude.
Users can enter the chat experience either via standard Siri or by going into the new “Search or Ask” mode by swiping down from the top center of their screen.
With this new deletion feature, the report said, users will be able to go to the settings panel within the Siri app and choose to keep conversations for 30 days, one year, or forever. Bloomberg added that the messaging app provides similar options, to the point that some monitoring groups have complained about government officials using it to scan their communications.
The report also noted that competing chatbots typically come with temporary or incognito chat modes that prevent conversations from being stored or used for model training. Apple stresses that these protections should be part of the system, not something users have to manually enable.
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“If this approach works, Apple will have a new selling point on the privacy front — and a potential excuse if its software doesn’t work as smoothly as competing technology,” Gorman added.
Aside from the privacy issue, the report pointed to another noteworthy Siri feature, which allows users to choose whether the app will open to display a grid of previous conversations or a new chat on each launch of the app.
Apple said in March that it would highlight its products Artificial intelligence developments At the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), scheduled for June 8-12.
Meanwhile, recent PYMNTS Intelligence research finds that instead of wanting to get “automated doorman” Consumers are turning to AI “one mundane task at a time.” As covered here last week, consumers don’t need to understand AI models. Instead, they want a tool that helps them complete tasks, with little risk if the initial score falls short.
“This is why Shopping and writing “These applications stand out as common, low-stress uses,” the report added. “A wrong product link can be ignored, or rewritten text can be edited. These are the types of experiences that allow consumers to experience AI without feeling exposed.”
