Maintaining privacy of personal information

A method, comprising:

• at an electronic device having one or more processors, a memory, and a touch-sensitive display:
• receiving a natural-language input requesting to retrieve private data;
• providing the natural-language input to an external device, wherein the external device does not store the private data;
• receiving, from the external device, a process flow in accordance with a determination that the natural-language input corresponds to a privacy domain;
• determining, based on executing the process flow at the electronic device, a task associated with the natural-language input;
• performing the task based on the private data from the memory of the electronic device;
• and
• providing an output indicating whether the task has been performed.

An electronic device, comprising:

• a touch-sensitive display;
• one or more processors;
• a memory;
• and
• one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
• receiving a natural-language input requesting to retrieve private data;
• providing the natural-language input to an external device, wherein the external device does not store the private data;
• receiving, from the external device, a process flow in accordance with a determination that the natural-language input corresponds to a privacy domain;
• determining, based on executing the process flow at the electronic device, a task associated with the natural-language input;
• performing the task based on the private data from the memory of the electronic device;
• and
• providing an output indicating whether the task has been performed.