Don't know about Siri. There is an app for Google Assistant. You can't remove it but you can disable it. It is part of the phone.
Thanks, I knew how but it warns that other functions may not work. On another note, Facebook reads your private messages. My sister is an RN. So I was asking her in a PM about a new med I was getting. Next thing I know, ads are popping up for that med on Facebook.
Stop using Facebook to fix that problem.
My SIL gave 5he Princess an Alexa. I told The Princess to get that thing out of the house.Don't play with the machines.
They are very good at what they do, and are getting smarter by the day.
People think 'Alexa' is only listening after they say: "Hey Alexa" and they vastly underestimate what it is actually doing.
Exacty!
THINK about something, and it will pop up! Seriously. I was talking to someone else about this. How absolutely bizarre is that? And how does that work?
It may not like to stay disabled. On my old phone I'd shut it off, but whenever I restarted, there it was again. I got so sick of it popping up and asking what I wanted every time I tried to use the phone...
If you have no WiFi, how was the WiFi enabled water heater going to connect?
There was some home electronic recently - was it a microwave oven perhaps? - that used it's network connection to automatically upgrade its firmware. Turned itself into a brick after a bad firmware update. I don't know what the company did for all the customers who suddenly and unexpectedly had their appliance stop working (and it could not be remotely fixed). This was just in the news sometime over the last few months.
For what?!
, but real 140° hot water because I turned the screws.
Wifi or it may have been cellular, whatever, they wanted to be able to control my hot water from their office. Whatever it is their sales pitch sounded a lot like my sales pitch on a high school date.
Let me see if I can express myself more clearly. It is the IOT. They put a smart meter on my house, I couldn't stop that. It will talk to every smart appliance in my home. I neither know nor care how they communicate, the specifics are immaterial, the fact that they can and do is enough. The only way to keep them from communicating is to not have smart appliances.
Re: Roomba
This probably has to do with radio frequencies used to control devices made by this manufacturer (iRobot?) AFAIK, the Rhomba vacuums are "controlled" by bumping into things. They hit something, they turn a different direction and cruise along until they hit something else. Like a game of pinball. But other devices that the manufacturer makes are probably controlled differently. I think they were considering making lawn mowers at one time (maybe they make them now). That is a device that might benefit from tighter control than just smashing into something with blades-a-spinning and then turning around. If the radio frequencies used to control something like this example lawn mower are anywhere near the frequencies used by cellphones, they will have to be certified not to interfere (and probably "not be interfered with by") cellphones operating on adjacent frequencies. I'll be willing to bet that something like this was the certification you were looking at on your vacuum (it may use common parts with the lawn mower), not that it uses the cellular network to phone home. But who knows without reading the exact FCC regulation specification in play.
