# Focus and Time Sensitive alerts

> How Fregata Mobile's alerts behave with Focus and Do Not Disturb — Break through Focus and Time Sensitive alerts, why alerts aren't critical, Focus Filters for cameras and objects, and switching filters with a Focus.

A Focus, Do Not Disturb included, holds most notifications back until it ends. Whether your
camera alerts get through is up to you, and there are three ways to decide it.

## Break through Focus

**Settings › Device Notification Settings › Break through Focus** is on to begin with. (This iPhone only)

- **On**: alerts arrive as **Time Sensitive**. They show on the Lock Screen and make their sound
  even while a Focus is on, Do Not Disturb included.
- **Off**: alerts arrive as ordinary notifications. A Focus holds them back without a sound or a
  banner, and you see them when you next unlock or open Notification Center.

It sets the **Default** level of every alert. A [notification filter](https://mobile.fregata.app/docs/alerts/filters/#levels)
can still make a camera, or an object on it, louder or quieter than that.

Time Sensitive isn't a critical alert: an iPhone with its silent switch on stays silent, and
iOS gives a security-camera app no way around that.

### If alerts still don't break through

iOS lets you refuse Time Sensitive alerts in two places, and either one wins:

- **Settings › Notifications › Fregata Mobile › Time Sensitive Notifications** has to be on.
- In **Settings › Focus**, open the Focus, then **Apps**: **Time Sensitive Notifications** has to
  be allowed.

## Focus Filters

A Focus Filter lets a Focus choose which alerts still make themselves known: _when Sleep is on,
only a person at the front door_.

1. Open the iOS **Settings** app and tap **Focus**, then the Focus you want, such as **Sleep**.
2. Under **Focus Filters**, tap **Add Filter** and choose **Fregata Mobile**.
3. Choose **Cameras**, **Objects**, or both: for example the Front Porch camera, and Person.
4. Tap **Add**.

While that Focus is on, alerts that match arrive as usual, and the rest arrive quietly, with no
banner and no sound, in Notification Center. Set only cameras and any object from them gets
through; set only objects and they get through from any camera; set both and an alert has to
match both.

Anything left out isn't silenced outright: iOS gives an app no way to do that. It's delivered
quietly instead, so it's there when you look.

## Switch filters with a Focus

To change far more than a Focus Filter can, such as quiet hours, zones and per-object levels,
switch [notification filter](https://mobile.fregata.app/docs/alerts/filters/) when a Focus starts. In the **Shortcuts** app:

1. Open **Automation** and tap **+**.
2. Choose **Focus**, pick a Focus such as **Sleep**, and choose **When Turning On**.
3. Add the Fregata Mobile action **Set Notification Filter**, and choose the filter, such as **Sleep**.
4. Make a second automation for **When Turning Off** that sets it back to **Home**.

See [Siri and Shortcuts](https://mobile.fregata.app/docs/beyond-the-app/siri-and-shortcuts/) for every action.