👉How "Alert Mode" & "Alert until I update" work ?
A price alert can notify you once, or keep reminding you. Two settings on the Add / Edit price alert screen decide that:
Alert Mode — how often the alert repeats while the price still meets your condition.
Alert until I update — keep notifying even after the price moves back, until you stop the alert yourself.
They are two different ideas and they are never used at the same time: when "Alert until I update" is on, Alert Mode is not used and the app hides it.
With "Alert until I update" off, Alert Mode is visible and controls how often the alert repeats.
Where to find them
Open Add Alert (price alert) or tap an existing price alert to edit it, then scroll to the bottom, under the Under / Over blocks:
Alert until I update is a switch. It belongs to the whole alert (both directions share it).
Alert Mode is a dropdown. Turning the switch on hides the whole Alert Mode row, because it no longer has any effect.
Alert Mode
Choose one of:
30s
1m
2m
3m
5m
10m
15m
30m
1h
Default for a new alert is 30s.
How it works:
The price reaches your target → you get the first notification right away.
As long as the price keeps meeting the condition, you get another notification every Alert Mode interval.
As soon as the price no longer meets the condition, the alert resets — the repeating stops, and the next time it triggers you get a notification immediately again.
So Alert Mode is a "do not spam me" setting, not a delay: the first notification is never delayed.
Example — Alert when price over 2600, Alert Mode = 5m
10:00
2600.4
✅ notification (first time above target)
10:02
2601.0
silent — still inside the 5 minute window
10:05
2602.3
✅ notification (5 minutes passed, price still over)
10:07
2599.1
silent — condition no longer met, the alert resets
10:08
2600.8
✅ notification right away (fresh trigger, no waiting)
Alert until I update
Turn it on when you must not miss the event — for example price touching a level while you are asleep, or while your phone is in your pocket.
Once the price hits your target:
You get the first notification as usual.
The alert latches: it keeps notifying you even after the price moves back away from your target.
It only stops when you stop it: turn the alert off, edit and save it, or delete it.
The notification also tells you the price of the moment it triggered, so a reminder that arrives later is still readable:
How often does it remind me ?
Reminders come about every 30s.
After roughly 20 reminders the gap can grow step by step, up to a maximum of 5 minutes, so a latched alert you never opened does not drain the battery all day.
One direction only
"Alert until I update" works in one direction at a time. Under and Over become a pair:
Turning Under on turns Over off, and the other way around.
The app shows: "Alert until I update works in one direction at a time."
The same rule applies to the on/off switches on the alert list.
Reason: the latch is stored for the whole alert. If both directions were allowed, the direction that triggered second could never report its own trigger price correctly.
How to stop it
Switch the alert off on the alert list
Reminders stop, and the latch is cleared — switching it back on starts fresh
Open the alert and save it
Latch cleared, alert armed again
Delete the alert
Gone, of course
Price moves back
Nothing — this is exactly what the option is for
With the switch on, Alert Mode disappears and only one direction stays enabled.
Rules and limits
Both settings belong to price alerts. Indicator alerts have their own settings.
Alert Mode applies per alert, not per direction: Under and Over of the same alert share it.
Alert Mode is never used while "Alert until I update" is on. Turning the switch back off brings your Alert Mode choice back exactly as it was.
Turning the alert off and on again always re-arms a latched alert — it will not notify you again until the price reaches the target once more.
A latched alert keeps its state when you close the app or restart the phone.
The list of Alert Mode intervals comes from the server, so it can change without a new app version. If you saved an alert with an interval that is no longer offered, edit the alert and pick a new one.
Good to know
Not sure which one you want? Use Alert Mode for "tell me while it is happening", and Alert until I update for "tell me until I have seen it".
If you want two directions and the never-stop behaviour, create two separate alerts, each with one direction and the switch on.
A quiet alert is not a broken alert: with Alert Mode, silence means the price left your target zone — look at the reset rule above before reporting a problem.
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