What's changed in Watchful

A change appears here once it has reached everyone.

November 2026

See what a device reported on its alert

An alert opened by a device report used to show a camera name and a headline. It now shows the headline, the device and what it reported, such as signal, zone and area, in a panel over the snapshot. The chevron collapses the panel; it stays collapsed for that alert and opens again on the next one.

A report with no picture fills the pane with those details and the camera's last picture from the alert. A short report can sit in one line above the picture instead, if its integration asks for that.

A physical tamper report, such as a sensor or alarm panel being opened, can now open an alert, marked Tamper reported on the timeline and in event lists. It doesn't sound a siren or go through AI review.

What you see depends on your integration sending these details.

New6 Nov · Portal

See who else received an intruder or incident report email

Intruder closure emails and incident report emails now list the other email addresses they went to, under This report was also sent to:. Your own address is left out.

Only people who received the email are listed, by address. Anyone notified only by push or text isn't. Other emails are unchanged.

New4 Nov · Portal

Hide an alert's images when they're sensitive

A new action in the Alert Actions menu replaces an alert's images with a placeholder.

New · 4 Nov · Portal

Add several offenders from one snapshot

Pick several people on the snapshot, check what AI filled in for each, and save them together.

New · 3 Nov · Portal

Closing an intruder alert no longer asks you to confirm no active threat

The "There is no active threat on site" tick and its warning dialog are gone.

Removed · 3 Nov · Portal

The shared email list is gone: every site sets emails per person

Site-wide email switches and the shared recipient list have been removed. Choose each person's emails in Settings.

Removed · 3 Nov · Portal

Later events no longer block closing an alert

Close an alert based on what you saw. Events that arrive afterwards reopen it instead of stopping the close.

Improved · 5 Nov · Portal

Site setup reminders now only show on Settings

The "This site is live but still needs..." callout no longer sits above every site tab.

Improved · 5 Nov · Portal

Fixes

October 2026

See each camera's uptime on Device health

On Device health › Cameras, an Uptime · 30d column shows the percentage over a bar: green from 99%, amber from 95% and red below that. Hover to see hours down. With under a day of data it shows a dash, not 0.

The Site Device Health Report PDF shows camera uptime too, as a summary figure, for each site and for listed cameras.

Uptime is the share of hours when a camera wasn't unhealthy. Hours where its health is unknown or suppressed don't count.

New30 Oct · Portal

Choose how long confirming staff disarms a site

Find Disarm when staff are confirmed under Staff check in site settings. It applies when a keyholder replies yes by text, and when an operator confirms staff at a site with no disarm slider. Setting it to 0 confirms staff and keeps the site armed.

Existing sites stay on 30 minutes. The text reply says how long the site is disarmed, or that it stays armed. Sites with the No Threat disarm slider keep using the slider.

New29 Oct · Portal

See and change keyboard shortcuts with ?

Press ? for the shortcuts that work on the screen you're on, and remap them to keys or controller buttons.

New · 27 Oct · Portal

Add several email recipients at once

Type or paste a list of addresses on a site's Settings page, and everyone gets the emails you tick.

Improved · 30 Oct · Portal

Vehicles open on the Vehicle tab, filled in from your crop

Offender capture no longer has a draw mode, and AI fills in a vehicle's details when you open the Vehicle tab.

Improved · 30 Oct · Portal

Keep or lift a 12-hour suppression from the picture

Click a 12-hour box on the scene to keep it permanently or lift it, and the suppression dialog opens faster on busy alerts.

Improved · 29 Oct · Portal

An alert shows the cameras the incident happened on

Alert details show the incident's frames from the cameras involved, rather than the latest stills.

Improved · 28 Oct · Watchful Go

Device health says what's wrong and how to fix it

Internal wording is gone: you now see the problem and the fix in plain words.

Improved · 28 Oct · Watchful Go

Fixes