Comment by Argonaut998
1 month ago
I think I just noticed a similar thing for search that I'm pretty sure was not there before IOS 18.
Going into Settings -> Search there's an option now for "Help Apple Improve Search", enabled by default.
>Help improve Search by allowing Apple to store the searches you enter into Safari(!!), Siri and Spotlight in a way that is not linked to you. Searches include lookups of general knowledge, and requests to do things like play music and get directions.
If it was there before then it was switched on again.
> allowing Apple to store the searches you enter into Safari […] in a way that is not linked to you
From deanonymization work even a decade ago it was clear that your search history will completely unmask you.
I would need lots of details before I believed that their method of storing the data reliably protected my privacy. (But of course that is not what the quote claims.)
This is worse than the OP. What alternative universe is Apple living in where it thinks that defaulting to collecting people’s search histories without consent is OK?
Oh damn you’re right. This was turned on by default for me, I don’t think I would have opted into this.
You’re right. This is another setting turned on by default.
thanks man