Apple's Audio Intelligence bypasses raw audio access

apple announced new siri ai audio intelligence features, such as siri recap, live rewind, sound recognition, and music recognition, at the iphone duo launch event. to protect user privacy, apple's audio intelligence features utilize the secure exclave in the s11 chip, which processes audio data separately from the rest of the system. raw audio is handled within dedicated hardware, not saved as a file, and not accessible to the operating system, apps, or apple. users control whether and when audio intelligence features are active, and data transferred to the iphone is encrypted through both devices' secure exclaves.