---
title: Mobile network priority
---
# Mobile network priority

## What it is

Yes. An active authenticated phone now receives the highest connection priority across
Omniscio-managed network activity.

This is always on; there is no setting to configure. It applies to both the normal off-loop
mobile transport and its in-process fallback.

### What it does not do

This is cooperative admission inside Omniscio, not operating-system packet scheduling. It does
not cancel a transfer that already started, reorder packets already on the network, control a
third-party webview, or throttle arbitrary sockets opened by an external child process.

Those boundaries are deliberate: mobile gets first access to capacity Omniscio controls without
risking partial uploads, corrupting work, or starving background jobs indefinitely.

## Where to find it

Nothing to open or configure — network priority is always on and has no setting. It applies wherever an authenticated phone talks to Omniscio, and the neighbouring systems it complements are described under Related.

## How it behaves

### How it works

Omniscio uses three admission lanes for managed network work:

1. **Mobile-critical** — phone connection activity and phone-triggered actions start immediately.
2. **Interactive** — ordinary user-facing work may yield for at most 150 milliseconds while a phone is active.
3. **Background** — lower-urgency work may yield for at most 2 seconds while a phone is active.

A phone keeps priority for 15 seconds after authenticated activity. If it disconnects, Omniscio
keeps a 10-second reconnect grace window so background work does not rush into the recovery gap.
An idle browser tab cannot hold priority forever, and a desktop browser cannot claim the mobile lane.

### What it protects

- Web Access requests made by an active phone.
- Omniscio HTTP work that uses the shared managed client.
- Background AI-provider calls that Omniscio explicitly marks as background.
- Both Web Access server transports, so fallback behavior matches the default path.

## Related

### Related connection protection

Network priority complements the existing mobile heartbeat, reconnect, and off-loop transport
protections. Those systems keep a healthy phone connected; priority reduces competition when
the phone needs to send or recover.