A recording is written to your phone's own storage as you make it, inside Junior's private area, not to your camera roll, your files app, or anywhere another app can reach.
It stays there until it uploads. Once Junior has it, the copy on the phone is removed, which is why the upload queue tells you "These recordings will be deleted from this device after they are uploaded."
So there is a window, sometimes seconds and sometimes days if you recorded somewhere without signal, where the recording exists in exactly one place.
What that means in practice
- Upload before wiping or replacing the phone. Nothing in the queue survives deleting the app or resetting the device.
- Deleting a row in the queue is final. There is no copy elsewhere to recover from.
- Storage matters. A long interview is a large file, and a phone with no free space cannot record.
Questions
Can I get the raw audio file off my phone myself?
Not through Junior. Recordings sit in the app's private storage and are not exposed to the files app or your camera roll. Once a call has uploaded and processed, the audio is playable from the call itself, on your phone and on your computer.
Is the recording protected while it is on my phone?
It sits in the app's private storage, which other apps cannot read, and inherits your phone's own device encryption, so a locked phone protects it. If your firm has specific requirements about audio at rest, that is a question for your IT team rather than something the app decides.
What if I lose the phone with recordings still queued?
Anything not yet uploaded is lost with the device, and there is no way to pull it from elsewhere. Tell your IT team so they can wipe it remotely, and tell whoever was relying on the call. The habit that avoids this is uploading as soon as you have signal rather than at the end of the day.