How to Disable Bad Language in Siri on iPhone and iPad

How to Disable Bad Language in Siri on iPhone and iPad

If you dont want Siri to ever dictate, speak, or write out explicit language, you can disable bad language in Siri for iPhone and iPad completely. By disabling explicit language support in Siri, the virtual assistant will use asterisks to cover up curse words and bad language, like s**t, and will literally bleep explicit language if it is spoken or repeated by the AI voice for whatever reason. To be perfectly clear, its not like Siri is going to swear at you if you dont disable explicit language specifically. Siri will go out of its way to avoid bad language, and often reply to a curse word with something like theres no need to say that!, but sometimes Siri can hear or interpret something wrong, a bad word can be fond when , or if you routinely use colorful language and four letter words yourself then it will be dictated and incorporated into the Siri commands you give to your iPhone or iPad. Also, some music and media content contains explicit language in the titles, and some may be dirty, and so those are additional situations where bad language could arrive from the typically polite Siri. Now if you use Siri and feed it bad language (or vice versa if you can somehow get Siri to curse at you through a series of or ), then Siri will use asterisks to blank out the bad word(s). Additionally, Siri will literally bleep bad language instead of saying it, sort of like what you hear if someone curses with bad language on live radio or TV, except its Siri doing the beep bleeping. If youre wondering why this setting is in Restrictions, its probably because the Restrictions feature of iOS is on the iPhone and iPad, and you can . Remember, if you do set a restrictions passcode then do not forget it. If you which is not a particularly fun process that involves backing up and erasing the device, but as of now thats the only thing to do. And of course if you want Siri to have free reign with his/her language and be able to say **** at will, then re-enable the Explicit Language toggle again via Settings > General > Restrictions > Siri > Explicit Language. This could be a particularly helpful tip for parents and educators, even if Siri will typically never report bad language unless it is dictated as a command. Or maybe you can use it yourself if youre trying to cut out some particular words from your vocabulary? Who ****ing knows!