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All of it lives on one page: Settings → Sessions. The gear in the top-right of a computer’s drawer goes to the same place. Everything here is off by default. Nomo doesn’t turn things on for you — several of these cost battery, network, or a permission prompt, and one of them decides whether your Mac hands permission decisions to your phone at all.

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Local network

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off by default
Off, Nomo reaches your Mac through the cloud only. On, it connects directly to your paired Mac when both are on the same network, and falls back to the cloud automatically.
Straight to your Mac instead of around through the relay: under 200ms instead of five to twelve seconds. Worth turning on if you’re at your desk with your phone next to you. It’s strictly additive. Every request goes both ways at once — direct and through the relay — and whichever answers first wins. A Mac that’s asleep, firewalled, or on another network can’t slow anything down, because the relay leg was never waiting on it. Turning it on will prompt for local network permission the first time. Your Mac’s address never travels in the clear, and the direct traffic carries a second layer of encryption on top of the usual one, so nothing on the Wi-Fi learns which session or which computer it belongs to. You can tell it’s actually working by the green ⚡ Local chip under the computer’s name. That chip only appears when a direct reply genuinely came back — never from an address alone — so no chip means no direct link, whatever the reason. Direct connection also unlocks two things: Open on Mac on a session row, and re-fetching a plan that was too long to fit in an encrypted update.

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Dynamic Island

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off by default
Briefly expands the Dynamic Island with a haptic when a session needs your attention, and adds new sessions to it as they appear. Nomo always shows the one that needs you most.
The buzz-and-flash. Turn it on if you want to be told; leave it off if you’d rather glance. It doesn’t nag. A session that goes quiet gets you at most three nudges, spaced five minutes apart, and then stays silent until something actually changes.
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off by default
Beta Puts every new session on the island as it appears, instead of you flipping each switch.
Only sessions Nomo sees for the first time after you turn it on. Switching it on later won’t drag a backlog onto your island, and a session you explicitly switched off is never re-added.
Why this one is beta. iOS gives each app a fixed budget for how often it may repaint a Live Activity, and every enrolled session draws on the same budget. With a handful, you won’t notice. Enrol a dozen busy ones and iOS starts coalescing their updates — the island stays correct, but it can settle a beat behind your terminal.If that’s what you’re seeing: turn on More Frequent Updates below, or go back to enrolling the one or two sessions you’re actually waiting on.
A session that’s asking permission reaches the island regardless of either of these — that’s the point of the feature. See Nothing appears until you say so.

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Remote approvals

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off by default
When a session on the Dynamic Island asks permission (run a command, edit a file), answer Allow or Deny from your iPhone. Turn it off to always decide at your Mac.
This is the one people miss. With it off, your Mac never hands a decision to your phone — you’ll see that a session wants you, but you’ll go to the Mac to answer. Full details in Answering from your phone. There’s a second, per-computer pause that lives on the Mac rather than here: /nomo-cc:approvals off. Use that one when your phone is the thing that’s unavailable.

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Debug

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off by default
Shows plugin state decisions under each session.
Adds a line of Nomo’s internal state under each expanded session row. It costs nothing and shows nothing on the island. Leave it off unless you’re reporting something — then turn it on and send us the row, as described in Still wrong? Send it over.

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iOS permissions

Open iOS Settings takes you to Nomo’s page in iOS Settings, where two of Apple’s own switches matter:
  • Live Activities — must be on, or nothing can appear on the island at all.
  • More Frequent Updates — raises how often iOS lets Nomo repaint the island. Nomo is written against the default budget, roughly one update every nine seconds. Turn this on if island updates feel like they’re lagging behind your terminal.

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The per-session switch

Not on this page: the switch on each session row, which decides whether that session can hold the island. It’s in the computer’s drawer, on the right of every row. See Computers and sessions. Your choices survive quitting the app and restarting your phone. If a computer was unreachable when you flipped something, the change is held and applied when it comes back.