The verifiable promise
During the WWDC 2026 keynote, Craig Federighi directly addressed the privacy question around Siri AI — particularly sensitive given that the new assistant partly relies on Google's cloud infrastructure through AFM Cloud Pro. Federighi stated that Apple considers privacy in AI "non-negotiable" and that data is used only to execute the user's request, adding that external experts can verify this promise at any time.
The external verification clause fits within the Private Cloud Compute framework introduced with previous generations of Apple Intelligence, an architecture Apple had already described as inspectable by independent security researchers. The extension of this principle to the Gemini-based component of AFM Cloud Pro is, however, a new element: previously Apple's cloud computing was entirely proprietary, whereas now a portion of the most intensive workloads runs on Nvidia GPUs in Google's infrastructure.
Federighi's statement should be read as a preemptive response to the criticism that the Google deal has already generated in privacy-oriented circles. Concrete verification of these promises will require time and, likely, independent audits that have not yet been announced.