Application Settings Overview

Application Settings (the gear icon on the Status screen) is where everything that isn't a Sensor, Channel, or Monitor lives: monitoring behavior, display preferences, app info, and configuration backup. It's grouped into a few cards you can scroll through.

Details

Settings is organized into these sections, each covered on its own page:

• Monitoring Settings — Location Setting, Startup Behavior (what happens when the app is opened), Bluetooth Scan Mode, Keep Screen On, Screen Saver.
• Display Settings — Language, Theme, Use device colors, and Display Rotation.
• App Info & Permissions — About, a shortcut to Android's permission screen, App Lock / Emergency Unlock, power/battery notes.
• Import & Export — back up and restore your configuration.

The Settings screen itself also carries a Permissions and Phone Settings entry. It shows how many of the permissions your current configuration needs are granted ("3/5 permissions granted"), turns into a warning icon when any are missing, and opens the permission wizard, one page per permission, each saying what it is for and what happens without it. There is no separate "Missing Permissions" panel — this entry is the place to look.

Your configuration is locked while monitoring is armed — stop monitoring first if a sensor, channel, monitor or monitoring setting won't respond to a tap. This is deliberate: it prevents a configuration change from landing mid-session while sensors are actively watching for something. A few things are deliberately not locked, because they have to work during a session: the display settings, the app lock, dismissing a one-time notice, and switching the Status view. A subscription purchased during a session is held and applied the moment you stop monitoring. The one configuration setting a running session can change is "Return to the app automatically" — but only from inside the dialog Sentinel Circle shows when it brings itself back to the screen; see Monitoring Settings.