Custom Day Start and End Plus
By default, a day in Align follows the calendar: it runs from midnight to the end of the day. With a custom day start and end, you choose the hours of your planning day instead, for example 09:00 to 17:00, or 07:00 to 01:00 if you plan late into the night.
Custom day start and end is part of Align Plus.
What It Changes
When a custom day is on, Align uses your start and end times for:
- The timeline: the day begins at your start time and finishes at your end time. A sun icon marks the start and a moon icon marks the end, each with its time.
- Free time: free time is only shown between your start and end times.
- Which day a block belongs to: when your end time is earlier than your start time, blocks after midnight belong to the day that started the evening before. See An End Earlier Than the Start.
- Insights: the length of your day is measured from your start time to your end time.
- The "How did today go?" notification: it arrives at your end time, or when your last block of the day ends if that is later.
- Widgets: the timeline widget follows the same start and end times.
Set a Custom Day Start and End
- Open Settings and tap Day start/end.
- Tap Custom day start/end.
- Tap Start and choose the time your day begins.
- Tap End and choose the time your day finishes.
Changes are saved as you make them. To go back to the calendar day, tap Calendar day.
The two options are:
- Calendar day: Use midnight through the end of the day.
- Custom day start/end: Show the timeline between your selected start and end times.
Your day start and end setting syncs to your other devices through iCloud.
An End Earlier Than the Start
If the end time is earlier than the start time, the day continues into the next day. Day start/end shows a Next day badge under the end time, with the note "An end time earlier than the start time is treated as the next day." Setting the end to the same time as the start also counts as the next day, so the day lasts a full 24 hours.
For example, with a start of 07:00 and an end of 01:00:
- The day covers the 24 hours from 07:00 until 07:00 the next morning.
- A block at 00:30 appears on the timeline of the day that started at 07:00 the morning before, not on the next calendar date.
- When you open Align after midnight but before 07:00, today is still the previous date, so you keep working on the same day until your next day starts.
Blocks Outside Your Day
Blocks before your start time or after your end time are not hidden or moved:
- A block that ends before your start time appears above the start marker.
- A block that starts after your end time appears below the end marker.
- A block that crosses your start or end time is shown in full, with the marker next to it.
Free time is not shown outside your start and end times. You can still drag and resize blocks past your start or end time.
With a day that runs past midnight, blocks between your end time and the next start time (for example 03:00 with a 07:00 to 01:00 day) appear after the end marker of the day that started the morning before.
Requires Align Plus
Custom day start/end shows the Plus badge in Day start/end. Without Align Plus, tapping it opens the Align Plus paywall. See Align Plus for plans and how to restore a purchase.
If your Align Plus subscription ends, Align goes back to the calendar day. Your start and end times are kept and apply again when you renew.
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