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Chapter 6

Display and night mode

Choose how the clock looks, and how bright the screen is by day and at night. All of it is under Settings › Display.

Clock styles

Six ways to show the time and today’s prayers. Pick one under Clock style.

Masjid board: a large clock with the five prayers in columns underneath.
Masjid board: the time in large print, the prayers in columns like the board at the masjid. (tap to see the whole screen)
24-hour dial: a ring for the whole day with the prayers marked around it and a countdown in the middle.
24-hour dial: the whole day as a ring, with a countdown in the middle. (tap to see the whole screen)
Analog clock face: a clock with hands, Asr, Maghrib and Isha marked around the edge.
Analog clock face: hands, with the coming prayers marked round the edge. (tap to see the whole screen)
Sun path: the sun's arc from sunrise to Maghrib, with Fajr and Isha below the horizon.
Sun path: where the sun is between sunrise and Maghrib. (tap to see the whole screen)
Day timeline: a countdown at the top and the day's prayers in a list with iqama times.
Day timeline: the day as a list, with iqama times on the right. (tap to see the whole screen)
Bedside, low glare: amber numbers on black, with the next iqama underneath.
Bedside, low glare: amber on black, for a bedroom. (tap to see the whole screen)

Look and brightness

Settings, Display: the six clock style buttons, three round swatches for the look, and the Brightness now slider set to Bright.
The top of the Display page. (tap to see the whole screen)
  1. Clock style: the six styles above.
  2. Look: Printed timetable (paper and ink), Handwritten (blue pen on a ruled sheet), or High contrast (black and white, easiest to read from afar).
  3. Brightness now: Bright, Soft, Dim or Darkest. The Bright button at the top of every screen does the same.

Night, duas and full screen

Dim automatically set to After Isha, the At night slider set to Dim, Show duas and adhkar and Show transliteration switched on, and the Full screen layout drop-down.
Further down the Display page. (tap to see the whole screen)
  1. Dim automatically: After Isha, After Maghrib, or Off. The screen goes bright again at sunrise.
  2. At night: how dim it goes: Soft, Dim or Darkest.
  3. Show duas and adhkar and Show transliteration turn the dua on the Today screen, and its English letters, on or off.
  4. Full screen layout: Times only, Clock, prayers and dua, or Automatic, which shows times only on small screens.
Full screen on a tablet: the date, the clock and the five prayers at the top, and a dua in large Arabic with its meaning underneath.
Full screen with Clock, prayers and dua. (tap to see the whole screen)

Good to know

  • Arabic text size (Small, Medium, Large) is at the bottom of the page, with Keep screen on.
  • A web page cannot turn down the tablet’s backlight. Dim and Darkest darken the page itself. For a darker room, lower the tablet’s own brightness too.