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Apps are nothing unless they can be tailored to the experience that is best for you. We have worked hard to provide the options that users have requested the most. Many of our top questions or feature requests are actually taken care of on this page!  



  • Start on Boot: Choose if Signal Spy starts when your phone boots
  • How do you want Signal Spy to show up in your status bar?: Options are "Always On", "On when app is active", "Off when on WiFi", "Always Off"
  • Android Status Bar Settings: Choose whether or not your phone allows notifications from Signal Spy
  • Keep Alive: How often Signal Spy will check to make sure everything is still running correctly in the background
  • Disable Oreo Background Notification: Pixel 2 phones and phones with Android 8.1 can turn off the "Apps consuming battery" permission
  • Network Tracking: Options are "Always," "Only while screen is on", "Only while screen is on OR plugged in"
  • Network Detection: Options are "Derived", "Network Operator",  "SIM Operator"
  • Enhanced LTE Band Detection: For Android N users, get the most accurate band detection on any carrier. Android M users can get band connectivity info collected by N users. For Android 7.0+ users, users can get real time LTE band information using Android's networking API's. Android 6/6.1 users can receive information that was collected from 7.0+ device users.
  • Exit App Behavior: Options are "Ask me every time", "Exit, but keep running in the background",  "Exit completely"
  • Combo Icons: Show single icon with the default network connection or show icons combining WiFi and mobile connections
  • Cell Icon only when on WiFi: Choose whether to override Combo Icons setting to show cell icon instead of WiFi
  • Show Dialer Codes in Notification: Show the shortcuts for the dialer codes in the Notification
  • Auto Dialer Warning: Show a warning when trying to use the auto dialer when Accessibility mode is disabled
  • Dialer Code Options: Choose which dialer codes are used in the Notification
  • Location Features: Whether or not you allow Signal Spy to get your location information to retrieve extended mobile information and (for Pro users) to allow for logging location in History
  • Widget Background: Set the widget background color
  • Widget Font: Set the widget font color
  • Communication Opt-out: Choose to opt out of communication with developers
  • (Pro) Theme Options: Options are "Light Theme", "Dark Theme", "Follow System Settings
  • (Pro) Preferred Network: Tell Signal Spy to which cellular network you prefer to be connected (Google Fi users)
  • (Pro) Show Data Usage on Notification: Allow the data usage as part of the notification
  • (Pro) Data Limit: Turn on and off the data limit feature, allow permissions, and set the daily limit
  • Hide Notifications in Lock Screen (Experimental): Attempt to hide the Notification when the screen is locked
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