Will Google train its AI on your Siri data? Apple breaks silence after Gemini partnership

Google , by default, leverages the conversations that users have with Gemini to train its AI models. With Gemini now going in to power the revamped Siri, the logical questions that one would ask next is if Google would get access to your personal conversations with Siri. It turns out, Apple already anticipated this question and issued a clarification.

The Cupertino based tech giant in a joint statement said that while its upcoming Apple Intelligence features will be powered by Gemini they will still adhere to the company's ‘industry-leading privacy standards’. The company also noted that the features would run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute.

In case you aren't aware, Private Cloud Compute is Apple's own cloud intelligence system that it announced with iOS 18 to runs the Apple Intelligence features on the cloud while offering the same level of privacy and security as when the data is stored on the iPhone.

When the user uses an Apple Intelligence feature, Apple's AI analyzed whether it can process the data on device or if it needs more computational power. If it needs more computational capacity, the AI sends only the data which is relevant to the task on Apple silicon servers and the company claims that ‘data is not stored or made accessible to Apple, and is only used to fulfill the user’s requests.’

Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi had explained the system while introducing it alongside iOS 18, saying, “Private Cloud Compute uses your data only to fulfill your request, and never stores it, making sure it’s never accessible to anyone, including Apple. And we’ve designed the system so that independent experts can verify these protections.”

While Apple does not yet go into detail about how this specific partnership would work, the general idea is that these models should use the computing power on your phone to run small tasks and the more complex tasks could be routed via Private Cloud Compute. This way while Google would be providing the actual brain power behind the tasks, it would not be able to access the data Apple users share with Siri.

Apple had earlier partnered with OpenAI to power complex queries in Siri and along with some more Apple Intelligence features. The company had then said that ‘privacy protections are built in when accessing ChatGPT within Siri’ which included OpenAI not being able to save the requests made by users and their IP addresses being obscured.

In any case, the first time that we see Google's AI in action on the iPhone would be with Siri revamp which is tipped to arrive with iOS 26.4 update in March or April.