Auto-Delete Old Recordings: Effortless, Clean Storage

The downside of recording your day is obvious: won't your phone fill up? Not if the recorder cleans up after itself. Auto-deleting old recordings keeps a rolling window of your recent audio and quietly clears the rest — so you get a continuous record *and* tidy storage, with zero file management.

The problem with keeping everything forever

A recorder that never deletes anything becomes a liability:

• Your storage creeps up until the phone is full.
• Your library turns into an unmanageable haystack.
• You're hoarding sensitive audio you never actually needed to keep.

The fix isn't to record less — it's to let old, un-kept audio expire automatically.

How rolling auto-cleanup works

BlackBox treats your recordings as a rolling window rather than a permanent pile:

1. Each day is recorded into tidy hourly files.
2. Completed days are auto-archived and compressed to save space.
3. After a rolling window of about 30 days, older audio is automatically cleared.
4. Anything you chose to keep — via auto-export — is preserved.

The result: your phone holds roughly your last month of audio logs, and stays there. It doesn't grow without bound, and you never have to go in and delete files by hand.

Why this is actually a feature, not a limitation

• Clean storage, automatically. Your available space stays flat instead of shrinking week after week.
• Compressed logs. Archiving keeps the footprint small while preserving your recent history.
• A privacy win. Not keeping months of old audio you'll never use is *safer* — there's simply less sitting around. See where recordings are stored.
• Zero maintenance. No "your storage is full" notifications, no manual cleanup sessions.

Keep what matters — automatically

Auto-cleanup only makes sense if you never lose the good stuff. That's what auto-export is for: turn on cloud archive backup and finished archives are saved to a folder *you* control before the rolling window clears them. So the things you want forever — a loved one's voice, a key meeting — are kept, and everything else tidies itself away. Full setup in auto-export before auto-clean.

You're always in control

Beyond the automatic window, you can delete any recording or whole day yourself at any time, and lock the library behind Face ID. Auto-cleanup is the default convenience, not a loss of control.

The bottom line

Auto-deleting old recordings is what makes all-day capture practical: you keep a clean, compressed, rolling record of your recent life without ever managing files — and auto-export preserves anything you want to keep for good. It's the quiet system behind BlackBox that keeps your storage as effortless as your recording.