Where your journeys are stored

What is stored where?

Your journeys, GPS points, addresses, vehicles and settings are in an app database on your phone.

The location engine also keeps points that have not yet been processed into a journey, for up to seven days, and its own log of three days. That is on your phone too. After each processed journey, the engine clears those points.

Reports and backup files are separate files on your phone. See exporting and backup.

No central copy

There is no MoveJack server that receives or keeps your journeys. The location engine has no upload destination. The app does not sync your journeys to us.

What does go to external services, and why, is in external services and what leaves your phone.

Not in iCloud or Google either

Your journeys are not included in your phone’s automatic backup, with iCloud or Google. So a new phone does not start with your journeys by itself; that is what your own backup file is for.

Good to know

• The app does not separately encrypt its database.
• If you lose your phone without your own backup file, your journeys cannot be recovered.
• If you delete the app, your journeys are gone from your phone. On Android, reports and backup files stay in the Documents folder. See wiping and deleting data.