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But this is not what the settlement is about is it? The initial whistleblower was about how Apple sent these unintentional recordings to people who worked on the system to recognize the wake word, right? "Apple admitted to no wrongdoing. Instead, the settlement refers to "unintentional"

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Siri activation that occurred after the "Hey, Siri" feature [...], where recordings were apparently prompted without users ever saying the trigger words" Sometimes Siri would be inadvertently activated, a whistleblower told The Guardian, when an Apple Watch was raised and speech was detected."

I'm not saying this is great by Apple, but as far as I'm aware this is not evidence of the kind of "constant surveillance" that people sometimes think is happening, ie this is not a lawsuit about "the phone is always listening to me to send me ads" afaik we have no strong evidence for that