Signals · Guide

Get Signals on Your Phone

The fastest channel: plain notifications on your device, like a text message. Works in a normal browser on Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux.

  1. Go to Menu → Lab → Signals and press + Add signal (or open a signal you already have). Pick your strategy from the dropdown.
  2. Select the PUSH chip.
  3. Press ENABLE. Your browser will ask permission — choose Allow. You'll see ✓ Notifications are on for this device.
  4. Press SEND TEST — a notification should pop up within seconds.
  5. Press CREATE. Done — you're live.

Each device says yes separately — repeat the one-click ENABLE on your laptop, your phone, wherever you want alerts (up to 10 devices). Every send is logged under PAGE → Notifications.

On Android, one more step is not optional: do the battery setup in the Android section below right now, while you're here. Skip it and your phone's battery saver will quietly delay alerts — a signal that fires at 1:00 and reaches you at 2:00 is worse than no signal at all.

Apple only allows web push for installed sites — a plain Safari tab can't receive them. One-time setup:

  1. In Safari, open CoinLAB and tap Share → Add to Home Screen. (Needs iOS 16.4 or newer.)
  2. Open CoinLAB from the home-screen icon — not the Safari tab — and press ENABLE there. The permission pop-up works the same way.
  3. Confirm it registered: iPhone Settings → Notifications → CoinLAB should now appear with Allow Notifications on. Turn on Lock Screen and Banners so alerts are actually visible.

Quiet iPhone? A Focus mode (Do Not Disturb) silently swallows notifications unless CoinLAB is on its allowed list, and Low Power Mode can delay them. If push worked before and went silent, open the home-screen app once — iOS pauses push for installed sites it thinks you've abandoned. Unlike Android, there's no browser battery setting to hunt down — Apple delivers these itself.

This is the setup that decides whether push is instant or hours late. Android's battery optimizer puts browsers to sleep to save power, and push for CoinLAB is delivered through your browser — so a sleeping Chrome = signals held back and dumped in a burst whenever you next open something. If your alerts ever go "silent all day, then everything at once the moment I open CoinLAB," this is why. Do the steps below right after enabling push, not after the first missed trade.

Installed CoinLAB as an app? (Chrome menu → Add to Home screen / Install app) Then read this twice, because it catches almost everyone: that icon is only a doorway — notifications are still received and drawn by Chrome. Giving the CoinLAB app itself "Unrestricted" battery changes nothing for push; every exemption below must go to Chrome. And there's a twist: once you open CoinLAB only from the icon, Android decides Chrome is an app you "never use" and quietly puts it to sleep — so the more faithfully you use the installed app, the later your alerts drift. That's exactly why the steps below matter.

Samsung (Galaxy) — the most common case:

  1. Open Settings → Battery → Background usage limits.
  2. Open Sleeping apps — if Chrome is there, remove it.
  3. Now check Deep sleeping apps too. Removing Chrome from one list often just moves it to the other — it has to be gone from both before push flows.
  4. To stop Samsung from quietly re-adding it weeks later, add Chrome to Never sleeping apps on the same screen.

Every Android: Settings → Apps → Chrome → Notifications must be on, and Settings → Apps → Chrome → Battery should be Unrestricted. Xiaomi, Huawei and OnePlus ship their own aggressive optimizers — allow Chrome in their battery-saver exceptions (and enable Autostart where offered).

Installed CoinLAB from Samsung Internet instead of Chrome? Apply the exact same steps to Samsung Internet — alerts flow through whichever browser you installed it with.

Check two things: the Push panel shows ✓ on for this device, and your browser is allowed to notify in your system settings (Windows: Settings → Notifications · Mac: System Settings → Notifications). On iPhone, push only works from the home-screen app, not a Safari tab.

Alerts arriving in a burst only when you open the site? That's the battery optimizer — see the Android section above.

Alerts on time while you're using the phone, but a few minutes late (4–10 min) when it's been sitting idle in your pocket? Same optimizer, lighter grip — and the usual culprit is an exemption given to the wrong app: it must go to the browser (Chrome or Samsung Internet), not the installed CoinLAB icon. See the Android section above.

If exact timing is critical for you, pair Push with Telegram — phone makers treat the Telegram app as always-on, so it's the most punctual channel. Prefer a different channel? See all four options.

Signals are information, not orders — CoinLAB never touches your exchange account. Nothing here is financial advice.