# Live Activities

> Follow an alert while it's still happening, on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on Apple Watch — choosing which cameras start a Live Activity, its Watch Live, Snooze 1 Hour and View Clip buttons, and the preview.

For the cameras you choose, an alert that's still going on stays on the Lock Screen and in the
Dynamic Island as a Live Activity: the camera, what it saw, its picture, and a clock running
since it started. It's for the cameras where you'd want to watch while it happens, such as a
front door, not every camera on the street. (This iPhone only)

_Picture: An iPhone Lock Screen with the Front Porch alert in the Dynamic Island, a figure and a running clock reading 0:42; widgets under the time; and the Live Activity at the bottom with the porch picture, Front Porch, Person, Front Path, the clock, and the Watch Live and Snooze 1 Hour buttons._

## Turn them on

1. Open **Settings › Live Activities**.
2. Leave **Live Activities** on, and under **Cameras**, turn on each camera whose alerts should start one.
3. Tap **Preview** to see one, then lock your iPhone or go to the Home Screen: iOS doesn't show a Live Activity while the app is open. The preview ends after 30 seconds.

_Picture: Settings › Live Activities: the Live Activities switch on with an explanation, the cameras with Front Porch and Side Gate on, and Preview._

Nothing starts until you choose at least one camera. Alerts from the others arrive as ordinary
alerts, as before.

## What it shows

_Picture: The Live Activity: the Front Porch picture, Front Porch, Person, Front Path, a clock at 0:42 marked Live, and the buttons Watch Live and Snooze 1 Hour._

- **The camera, what it saw and where**, with the alert's picture.
- **A running clock**, from the moment the alert started, marked **Live** while it's going on.
- **Watch Live** opens the camera's live view.
- **Snooze 1 Hour** [snoozes](https://mobile.fregata.app/docs/alerts/snooze/) that camera on this iPhone.

When the alert ends, the clock stops, the activity says **Ended**, and **View Clip** opens the
recording of what happened. It goes a minute later. If a newer alert from a chosen camera starts
while one is showing, the activity moves on to the newer one.

In the Dynamic Island it shows as an icon and the clock; touch and hold it for the full view. On
an Apple Watch, the same activity appears in the Smart Stack.

## If none appear

- **Settings › Live Activities** says **Live Activities are off for Fregata Mobile in Settings ›
  Apps › Fregata Mobile**: turn them on there, in the iOS **Settings** app.
- **No camera chosen yet**: choose at least one camera.
- Alerts have to be [set up](https://mobile.fregata.app/docs/getting-started/notifications/) first: a Live Activity is sealed
  with the same key as your alerts.