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		gf000 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but th... > You are being listened to by your phone. This would simply eat the battery immediately, it's simply not feasible and given all the other, cheap tracking it wouldn't even be beneficial.

Spooky23 10 months ago [–]

Not in 2025. I often record long duration meetings and working sessions with iOS voice memos. There’s no noticeable impact.

You could easily record and do a fast voice transcription to gather keywords from a hardware perspective.

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