How to turn off Siri on your iPhone or iPad

Although it has detractors, Siri remains a popular virtual assistant for people who use an iPhone or iPad — and that’s not simply because it’s built into those devices. Siri may not be able to answer all of your queries, but it still has many useful features. However, not everyone needs a virtual assistant to their liking and calling, so if you’d rather keep Siri out of the way, Apple has provided a way to turn it off.

It is also possible to disable only some aspects of Siri. For example, you can choose to have Siri appear only when you manually launch it with a button on the iPhone 14 instead of listening for the “Hey Siri” command. You can also modify the suggestions Siri makes throughout iOS 16, for example on the Lock screen or when searching for information using Spotlight. Here’s how you can bend Siri further to your will.

How to turn off Siri completely

If you’re running iOS 11 or later, it’s easy to turn off Siri. Here’s how:

Step 1: open the settings The app on your iPhone or iPad.

Step 2: Scroll down to the fourth section and select Siri and Search.

Step 3: At the top, switch Listen to “Hey Siri” And Press the Siri side button.

The fourth step: If you have HomePod speakers in your home with Personal Requests enabled, you’ll see a warning telling you that your HomePods won’t be able to recognize your voice or respond to Personal Requests. He chooses Stop using Siri to confirm this.

Fifth step: He chooses Turn off Siri in the final popup that appears.

This will completely disable Siri, so it will no longer respond to voice requests. However, as this final popup demonstrates, it does not disable the dictation feature. You have to disable that separately in the Settings app general > keyboard > Enable dictation If you want to completely remove information about Siri from Apple’s servers.

How to disable “Hey Siri”

Siri is getting better at recognizing the key phrase “Hey Siri” that’s used to activate it with your voice. However, this is still not ideal, and your iPhone can sometimes think that you are calling Siri during normal conversations. Fortunately, this aspect of Siri is easy to disable without turning off the virtual assistant completely. Here’s how.

Step 1: open the settings The app on your iPhone or iPad.

Step 2: He chooses Siri and search.

Step 3: At the top, switch Listen to “Hey Siri”.

The fourth step: Once you do this, your iPhone or iPad will no longer listen for the key phrase, but you will still be able to activate Siri on demand by pressing and holding the side button. If you want to turn Hey Siri back on in the future, you can simply repeat the above steps; Just be aware that you will have to retrain Siri on your voice by repeating a few sample phrases.

How to turn off Siri Suggestions globally or for specific apps

Among Apple’s improvements to Spotlight in iOS 16 is Siri Suggestions. Siri now makes suggestions for things like calling a meeting, confirming an appointment, composing email, searching in Safari, and other actions based on your daily routine and how you use apps. You control how these suggestions appear – or not.

If you usually find Siri Suggestions useful but want to turn off some or all of them, here’s how to do it.

Step 1: open the settings app on your iPhone or iPad and select Siri and Search.

Step 2: Scroll down and switch Allow notificationsAnd Show in App Library and SpotlightAnd appear when sharingor appear when listening. You can choose any or all of these switches to set the corresponding features.

Step 3: You can also adjust your Siri preferences by swiping down and turning off Siri suggestions for specific apps only. For example, if you don’t want Siri to give you suggestions related to Safari, select Siri Safari.

The fourth step: Drag the slider outward to access any function you want to deactivate. For example, off Show in the app Siri will stop making suggestions while using Safari. On the other hand, disable Show content in search It will prevent content from Safari, such as your history or bookmarks, from appearing when you perform a Spotlight search in iOS 16.

How to turn off Siri sync on iCloud

Siri makes extensive use of machine learning to tailor its responses to your life and habits. As Siri becomes more familiar with you, it should become more efficient and useful each time you call it up.

You can use iCloud to sync Siri’s machine learning intelligence across all of your Apple devices. This is usually enabled by default if you opted in for iCloud sharing features when you set up your iPhone or iPad, but you can turn it off at any time in your iCloud settings if you’d prefer to keep what Siri learns about you stored only on your device. local device.

Step 1: Open your iPhone or iPad’s Settings app and select your name at the top.

Step 2: He chooses iCloud.

Step 3: He chooses view all.

The fourth step: Scroll down, find Siriand turn it off.

If you change your mind later, you can easily turn any Siri functionality back on by reversing the steps above.

Finally, if you truly Fed up with Siri and want to replace it with something else, check out our guide on how to replace Siri with ChatGPT on your iPhone.

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