Why would you allow a virtual assistance to spy on you constantly?
Because it’s not? A low-power process on my phone is listening for the wake word. When it hears other stuff, it ignores it. When it hears the wake word, it processes my request, tied to a separate anonymous identifier used only for Siri itself. I’m not really losing any privacy at all.
And as a side note, is there a way to kill Siri completely on IOS (not just go trough all app settings and disable siri there)?
It’s just the first two toggles (Listen for “Hey Siri” and Press Side Button for Siri) in the Siri & Search menu that you’d need to turn off. There’s not much to it.