INFECTEDROM What your phone logs, and how to limit it

Turn off Voice assistant recordings on Nothing OS 3

Voice

Sensitivity 4/5

Default: Off

Phones / Nothing OS 3 / Voice assistant recordings

Audio snippets are sent to server infrastructure when a wake phrase is detected on the handset. Some platforms allow human reviewers to listen to samples unless this option is switched off.

Goes to
Google, Apple, Samsung
Default
Off
Control
Can be switched off
Effort
a minute or two
Needs
account

How to do it

Open Data & privacy within your Google Account settings and ensure 'Include voice and audio recordings' is unticked.

Usually found under: Settings > Google > Manage your Google Account > Data & privacy > Web & App Activity

Menu names may differ by device and version.

What you lose

Assistant speech recognition models will not be trained using your voice samples.

What is collected

Voice recordings, transcribed text, assistant queries, device audio samples.

Vendors retain recordings to recognise spoken commands and improve speech-recognition models.

Retention is not stated here. The sensitivity rating is this site's own estimate.

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