How Apple's Spotlight API exposes undocumented interaction data for every search result it serves to over a billion devices
When an iPhone user types a query into Spotlight, Apple's servers return ranked results spanning web pages, apps, maps, news, knowledge graph entities, and stock data. Alongside each web result, the
If you leave it on by default, yeah.
Go through your settings, people. One-by-one.
This should not be on the user to figure out
While I agree in principle, the user must understand that all web searches (in general, not just in this case) are going to be tracked unless explicit steps are taken.
Spotlight searching the web is stupid, though.