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Alerts
A lightweight sound/vibration/flashlight/screen-wake chime, distinct from a full notification, that fires when Notification Screening allows a message from a screened app. It exists because the original app's notification is already visible on screen, so allowing it again shouldn't produce a duplicate full notification, just a short signal to draw attention. This is especially useful if you've muted that app's own notification channel to silence blocked messages, which would otherwise also silence the allowed ones.
- Per-app default (Actions → Alerts): one row per app currently selected for Notification Screening, each with independent toggle icons (vibration / flashlight / wake screen) and a ringtone button.
- Per-rule override: on a Number/Text Rule set to Allow and applying to notification Title/Body, an Alert row appears in the rule editor with the same controls. Leaving it at default uses the app-level config; setting anything explicitly overrides the app default for that specific rule. A small reset icon reverts back to "use app default."
The ringtone picker is restricted to notification-type sounds (not full call ringtones), and playback is automatically stopped after a few seconds, since this is meant to be a brief alert, not a continuous ring.
Notifications (the Actions section's "Notifications" setting) are a full system notification with the message content, needed for Calls and SMS/MMS since disabling the native app's own notifications means this is the only way you'd see the content. Notification Screening doesn't need this: the original app's notification is already visible, so a second full notification would just be a duplicate. Alerts fill that gap with something intentionally lighter.