Sakina Support

Mosques use different calculation methods. In Sakina, open Settings (the gear at the top of Today) and try these:

• Method: pick the method your mosque uses. Sakina suggests one for your country.
• Asr: choose Early (Shafi, Maliki, Hanbali) or Later (Hanafi).
• Adjust times: move any prayer a few minutes earlier or later to match your mosque exactly.

Near the poles the sun may not set or rise far enough for Fajr and Isha. Change the High latitude rule in Settings. On days with no sunset at all, Sakina and its widgets say there are no prayer times that day.

The new moon can be sighted a day earlier or later where you live. Adjust the Hijri date in Settings to match your local announcement.

Tap Open Settings in Sakina and allow location while using the app, or choose a city instead. A chosen city stays fixed until you tap Use current location in Settings.

• In Sakina, open Settings, then Notifications, and set each prayer to Notification. Use Send test notification to check.
• In the iOS Settings app, check that notifications for Sakina are allowed, and allow Time Sensitive notifications so they come through a Focus.
• Open Sakina at least every few days. It schedules the coming days' reminders each time it opens.
• If you paused tracking with Mute while paused on, reminders are off until you resume.

• Allow location access. Without it the compass uses magnetic north, which can be several degrees off, and Sakina tells you so.
• Move away from metal objects, magnets and other electronics.
• If Sakina asks you to calibrate, move your iPhone in a figure eight.

Sync uses your private iCloud. Check that you are signed in to iCloud on each device and that Sakina is switched on in the iOS Settings app under your name, then iCloud. Changes can take a few minutes to arrive.

In Sakina, open Settings and tap Reset tracker data. This also removes the data from your iCloud.

Recitation streams from EveryAyah.com, so it needs an internet connection. Verses you have played before are kept on your device and play offline. The Quran text and translations work offline too; the optional Abdel Haleem translation needs a download first.

The Arabic text and the translations come from Tanzil.net and QuranEnc.com, and the Arabic font is Amiri Quran. Full credits are in Sakina under Settings, then Acknowledgements. No translation can fully replace the original Arabic.

The hadith, in Arabic and English, with their grades and topics, come from HadeethEnc.com, the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, and are shown as published. They are stored in the app, so they work offline. The version is in Sakina under Settings, then Acknowledgements.

Touch and hold your Home Screen or Lock Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for Sakina. Open the app once first so the widgets know your location.

iOS ends a Live Activity after about eight hours. Open Sakina and the countdown starts again. You can turn it off in Settings under Ramadan.

Open Sakina on your iPhone while the watch is nearby. The watch picks up your location and settings from the phone.