No Siri data has ever been used for marketing purposes or sold to a third-party company for any reason, Apple said today in response to

Proposed class action lawsuit members, estimated in the tens of millions, may receive up to $20 per Siri-enabled device, such as iPhones, Apple Watches.

Apple agreed to pay $95 million in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated Siri assistant violated users' privacy.

Apple has long built a strong reputation for user privacy. Unlike some rivals, many of its features work entirely on-device, meaning user data is not sent to Apple’s servers, while the company said that outside experts could verify the privacy controls of the Private Cloud Compute aspect of its Apple Intelligence system.

Pending court approval, customers who had an Apple device with Siri between 2014 and 2024 will be eligible for payments of up to $20.

Here is the full statement from an Apple spokesperson:

Customers say conversations were captured by Siri without their consent and accused Apple of violating their privacy by sharing those recordings.

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of turning its virtual assistant Siri into a snoop that eavesdropped on the users of iPhones and other trendy devices in a betrayal to its long-standing commitment to personal privacy.

OS 18.4 is expected to be released in April with several new Apple Intelligence enhancements for Siri, including on-screen awareness, deeper

Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record user conversations through iPhones and other devices, court finds.

The lawsuit involves allegations Apple secretly activated the Siri feature to record conversations through people's devices for more than a decade.