This morning I phoned a mechanic to book a service.
The guy told me the appointment details and didn’t email anything through. I went to enter it into my calendar and when I started typing the mechanic’s name it came up with a suggested auto fill for the mechanic with the date and time of the appointment.
I don’t use Siri and don’t even have the mechanic saved as a contact. How did it know?
Suggestions is a feature that's been around for a while since iOS12. It tries to pick up contextual clues through e-mails, texts, phone number in your case maybe etc to assist you. It's pretty privacy focused so data never leaves your phone but you can switch it off if you prefer.
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph6f94af287/12…
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/11/16/how-to-disable-sugg…
Well, it probably linked the phone call to the mechanic. So thats obvious.
As for the date and time, when is it occuring? today? Did you choose the block in the calendar?
I didn’t think of the phone number but that makes sense. It’s a few weeks away and I was going through the weeks but I can’t remember if I actually selected the slot or not. I might have and that would explain everything
i tested with google calendar, if i i click a day, then "create event", it will default to the nearest hour of that date.
I bet they emailed or texted a confirmation that you haven't seen yet. Use the phone global search (pull down from home screen) to search for their name. Look at your recent notification.
I'm 99.99% sure they are not using speech to text to eavesdrop on your call details.
I think they might be.
Last Tuesday, my MIL in law was minding my kids. I called her when I was on the way to tell her I'd be running 15 minutes late.
Today, opened the iOS message app and there was a Siri suggestion at the top advising I could do voice to text. The example it gave was Hi Siri, tell (MIL's name) I'll be running late.
Maybe you've sent that message before on the same general day of the week / time?
Sounds like apophenia due to only noticing the event but not remembering the cause ie not remembering previously doing this on the same day/time (for example) so the only plausible explanation is that they are analysing content of phone calls.
@lunchbox99: Super weird but I was actually listening to this song as I opened the notification to read your reply……….
@lunchbox99: True, but… A song called Apophenia, after you mention that (not exactly a common word). In an album called Phone Power. In a thread about iPhones. Have to admit that is weird.
They ugh read your mind?
It's just magic*
China did it!
AI