Seize Light

Morning light now follows the sun, not your alarm clock. YOUR MORNING WINDOW OPENS AT SUNRISE It used to open when you said you woke up, which made it a statement about a setting rather than about the sky: set 07:00 in a dark December and the app would tell you to go out well before the sun came up. The window now opens at sunrise and closes midway to solar noon, so it moves with the season and with wherever you are standing. There is nothing to configure, and the wake-time question is gone from setup. If you had set a wake time, it is still doing one job: your morning reminder will not arrive before it. That is there so a midsummer sunrise does not wake you at half past three. A TIMER FOR YOUR MINUTES OUTSIDE Step outside, press Start, and the app tells you when you have had enough. It runs on the clock rather than on the screen, so you can lock the phone, put it in your pocket and keep walking, and the time still counts. When the dose is full you get a notification and the day is logged for you. How long is enough depends on how bright it is, so the app would rather measure than guess. Turn on Measure the light and the camera reads the brightness you are actually standing in: full sun fills the dose in about five minutes, heavy cloud takes nearer half an hour. Switch it off and the timer carries on at whatever it last measured, or at the forecast for your sky. Indoor light earns nothing, which is the whole point of going outside. FIND THE SUN A compass that points at the sun, for the mornings you cannot see it. Cloud, a building or a hill hides the sun without switching it off, and outdoor light on a grey morning is still many times brighter than any room. Hold the phone flat and turn until the sun meets the mark at the top, and you are facing it. Before dawn it points at where the sun will come up and tells you when. Face towards the sun, and never stare straight at it. TODAY, WINDOWS AND TRENDS, ONE TAP APART A tab bar along the bottom. Your three windows and your trends used to sit behind buttons on Today, and now each has a tab of its own. A running morning timer carries on while you move between them. ALSO • Remove Ads is now one tap away, at the top of Today. • The sunrise and sunset times under the sun's arc are readable again: the curve no longer runs through them, and they no longer spill off the edge of the screen. ALSO FIXED, IF YOU BOUGHT REMOVE ADS Three problems could hide your unlock on a slow connection: the tracking prompt could appear to someone who had paid to remove it, leaving Settings while the app was still checking could drop the unlock until the next launch, and the price could sit on Unavailable and never resolve. All three are fixed. Everything here stays an estimate with a source you can read in the app. The durations follow published morning-light guidance, the brightness figure is worked out from your camera's exposure rather than read off a light sensor, and none of it is medical advice.