Transcend Timer

This update is a redesign. The app does the same thing; it looks and reads differently. THE TIMER Much larger during meditation, at the centre of the screen, in figures that stay put as they count. If you open your eyes to check the time, that is now the easiest thing on the screen to read. PHASE COLOURS Meditation is no longer red. The four backgrounds are ordered by brightness — home, a darker warm up, near-black meditation, then a sharp lift into rest. The lift is deliberate: it is the largest change in light in the session and it lands the moment meditation ends, so you can sense the end without opening your eyes. EIGHT THEMES Forest, Moss, Sea, Dusk, Plum, Rose, Clay and Slate. Each one sets all four phases at once and keeps the same order of light, so the cue survives whichever you choose. The per-phase colour grid is gone: sixty-eight individual decisions, replaced by eight. AMBIANCE One looping background sound, off by default. It fades in when meditation begins and out across the rest phase, with its own volume kept separate from the start and end cues. PROGRESS The minutes chart is now a monthly calendar you can page back through. Two sessions a day is the same number of minutes every day, so a chart of minutes showed nothing; a calendar shows missed days, single sessions and double sessions at a glance. SETTINGS Durations use steppers instead of sliders, so twenty minutes is one tap rather than a guess. Four sections instead of five. APPLE WATCH The three durations now fit on one screen. Steppers are filled rather than translucent, which matters in daylight. The Digital Crown adjusts the focused row. A Smart Stack widget shows the current phase and the time remaining. GUIDE The instructions are collapsible sections rather than one long scroll. REMOVED The lock screen Live Activity. It duplicated what the app already showed, and it could not be kept accurate while the app was suspended. Fixes throughout.