Alarum: Gentle Alarm Clock

Major Updates: • iOS 27 compatibility. • Support for iPhone Duo: completely redesigned for both closed and open in both orientations as well as half folded. • iPad use now uses the Duo layouts for more square windows. Windowing is supported with the layout switching to iPhone style when tall and narrow. • Reliable Background Alarms: On iOS 26 and later, Alarum now schedules a backstop through Apple's new AlarmKit so your alarm reliably sounds even when the app is closed or your phone is locked — with your chosen sound. - Snooze and Stop work right from the lock screen. - Snoozing creates a fresh alarm just like it does in the app, so Alarum stays the single source of truth for your alarms. - Because this uses the system alarm, Alarum will now ask for alarm permission (see Permission Cards below). • Rebuilt Music Favorites: You can now favorite what you love and have it float to the top when choosing a sound. - Favorite individual songs across both your Library and Apple Music. - Favorite whole albums from the new Albums tab. - Favorite playlists (tap the heart below Shuffle). - The picker now shows your current selection. - If Apple Music is unavailable or a song won't stream, the alarm gracefully falls back to a Nature sound so you're never left without an alarm. • Permission Cards: Alarum no longer asks for everything at launch. Permissions are now requested one at a time on cards in the deck, with a short intro card and clearer explanations of what each one is for and why. When the last card clears, you're handed straight to a Hint. Other updates: • Changed: Alarms now hold their wall-clock time. An alarm set for 8:00am goes off at 8:00am wherever you are and through Daylight Saving Time changes. Repeating alarms and snoozes now advance by calendar day rather than a fixed number of seconds. • Added: Turning an alarm OFF now takes a confirming tap so you can't disable it by accident. • Added: A Feedback section in About to email me with issues or suggestions, or to rate Alarum on the App Store. • Fixed: Repeating alarms now correctly generate their next occurrence the moment they're created. • Fixed: Sound picker taps are reliable again on the new OS, with cleaner selection and icons. • Fixed: Screen staying dark, and hardware brightness not being restored, when quickly exiting right after launch or rotating. • Changed: The keyboard "Done" control is now a low-profile key that sits in the keyboard instead of a floating button. • Changed: Smoother, snappier card-swipe landing. • Fixed: Weather divide-by-zero and a handful of other stability and crash guards. • A large under-the-hood cleanup for the new OS: removed old Combine and dead code, moved audio activation off the main thread, hardened alarm fire timing, and added tests around the alarm engine.