Fact · Voice privacy and security
LocalTranscript's privacy page says recordings are stored on the iPhone until the user deletes them. It says the company never receives the recordings in a form it can read. It names no number of days.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 23, 2026
In the source's own words
“We do not run speech recognition on our servers, and we never receive your recordings in a form we can read. ... Recordings are stored on your phone until you delete them.”
Privacy: what leaves your machine, LocalTranscript, 2026, What the app records; The iPhone companion app.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page's section on the iPhone companion, which records audio and sends it to a computer the user has paired with it. The phone is the only place the page says a recording stays on the device after delivery.
- What it does not show
- The row covers the copy on the phone only. Recordings that have reached the user's computer are excluded from phone backups, but copies in earlier backups remain there, as the page says. The relay's 7-day limit is a separate row.
In the data
A row of How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings, as LocalTranscript, iPhone recordings: Recordings are stored on your phone until you delete them. days.
- Service
- LocalTranscript
- What is kept
- Audio recordings
- When
- By default
- Reviewed by people
- No
- As of
- 2026-10