الجليس الصالح

The biggest update in a year: four new sections, truer prayer times, and a Mushaf that gets out of the way. ◆ NEW • Adhkar — morning, evening, after-prayer, sleeping and waking, counted with a tap, each with its number and its source. And add your own, with their counts. • Tasbih — on iPhone and on Apple Watch, with phrases you edit as you like, targets of 33, 99, 100 or none at all, and a tally of completed rounds. It now follows you across your devices. • Khatma — choose how long it should take; it advances on its own as you read, and tells you where you stand. • Islamic occasions — Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, both Eids, Arafah, Ashura, al-Isra wal-Mi'raj and the Hijri new year, on a monthly Hijri calendar with their days marked, and a widget for the next one. • Qatar Calendar House added as a calculation method, chosen automatically for those in Qatar. • Mushaf — zoom the page, tap to put the chrome away and read on white, copy and share a verse, and recitation that keeps playing with the screen off. ◆ TRUER TIMES • The app tells you when it has changed the calculation method to follow the country you moved to, instead of changing it in silence. • At high latitudes where the sun does not set, times are taken from the nearest land where it does — and the app says so. • The Asr opinion and the Ramadan Isha interval are now actually applied. • Tomorrow's Fajr appears after Isha, as it should. • Notifications come through Focus, carry the name of your place, and tell you when they have been turned off. • The qibla compass and the augmented-reality mat now point at the real qibla. ◆ IMPROVED & FIXED • The adhkar texts and their attributions were corrected against the app's own sources. • Search is faster, honours the scope you pick, and forgives differences in Arabic spelling. • Large text sizes no longer break the layout or cut words off. • The Seerah reader no longer clips the first or last line of a page. • The Mushaf no longer crashes on iPad's two-page spread. • A new, consistent look for the prayer widgets on iPhone and Apple Watch. • The app warns you when iCloud sync is off, so your bookmarks are not lost. • Plenty under the surface: a faster start, a lighter screen refresh, and safer saving of your data.