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Sounds like a similar feature (“Sound Recognition”) that is coming in iOS 14. https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview/features/

It’s not clear from the article but I assume the Google implementation was pushed out to users and turned on by default (likely without a notification that the device would now start doing this). Since the iOS feature is listed under “Accessibility” I would assume that it’s opt-in.

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I am running iOS 14 beta right now - certainly a good update.

In my perfect world, there would be excellent open source software and hardware designs for home monitoring, etc., where we would have 100% control of our own data. We don't have a perfect world, and right now, Apple seems like the best bet (for me at least) for a company to trust (with healthy skepticism).

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