Widgets

Align widgets show your day on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. You can see what is happening now and next, check off a time block, start a new one, and follow your insights at a glance.

The extra large size is available on iPad.

Add a Widget

Open Align at least once before you add a widget. Until you do, widgets show Must open app first.

Home Screen

1. Touch and hold an empty area of the Home Screen until the apps jiggle.
2. Tap Edit, then Add Widget.
3. Search for Align and tap it.
4. Swipe to the widget and size you want, then tap Add Widget.
5. Tap Done.

Lock Screen

1. Touch and hold the Lock Screen, then tap Customize and choose the Lock Screen.
2. Tap the widget area below the time.
3. Tap Align, then tap the widget you want.
4. Tap Done.

Timeline

The Timeline widget shows your current and upcoming time blocks for today, from the same timeline you see in the app.

• Small and medium show the next two items. Large and extra large show up to five.
• Medium, large and extra large also show the hours. Small and the Lock Screen widget leave them out to save space.
• The Lock Screen widget shows one item.
• If today has no time blocks, the widget shows No time blocks and a Create button.

Tap a time block to open it in Align. Tap an open gap between blocks to create a new time block.

Complete a Time Block From the Widget

Each time block in the Timeline widget has the same checkmark as in the app.

1. Tap the checkmark next to a time block to mark it complete.
2. Tap it again to mark it incomplete.

Align saves the change without opening the app. The Daily progress and Insights widgets update right away to include it. See Complete Time Blocks for how completion works in the app.

Daily Progress

The Daily progress widget shows how many of today's time blocks you have completed.

• Small (Home Screen): today's date, a ring with the blocks completed out of the blocks planned, and a short reading of the day underneath.
• Circular (Lock Screen): a gauge with the count, for example 3/5.

The ring and the count are free. Without Align Plus, the reading under the ring is blurred.

Tap the widget to open Insights on today.

New Time Block

The New time block widget creates a new time block with one tap. Tap it to open Align straight to the new time block editor. See Create and Edit Time Blocks.

Its content never changes, so it doesn't need to update.

Insights Widgets

The Insights widgets need Align Plus. They show the same insights as the Insights screen, and tapping one opens Insights on the day, week or month it shows.

• Day load: how much of the day is planned, and how much is still open. The medium size adds a grid of today's blocks.
• Pace: whether today is on track, with the blocks completed out of the blocks planned. The inline Lock Screen size shows only the pace.
• Weekly insights: every day of the week and how many you cleared.
• Monthly insights: the whole month as a grid of days.
• Streak: your run of completed days, for the week or the month.

Choose the Streak Scope

The Streak widget can follow the week or the month. Week is the default.

1. Touch and hold the Streak widget and tap Edit Widget.
2. Under Scope, choose Week or Month.

A week shows the last seven days of your run. A month shows the last 14 days on the medium size. The small size shows up to seven days either way. Tapping the widget opens Insights on the week or the month you chose.

Without Align Plus

You can add the Insights widgets without Align Plus, but their content stays hidden:

• On a full-colour Home Screen, the widget's insights are blurred, with a lock and a Plus badge on top. VoiceOver announces it as "Locked. Align Plus unlocks these insights."
• On the Lock Screen, and on tinted or clear Home Screens, the widget shows only the lock and the message Locked. Align Plus unlocks these insights. The inline Pace widget shows Align Plus with a lock.

After you subscribe, the widgets unlock the next time they update. See Align Plus.

Widget Errors and Fixes

A widget showing one of these messages tries again about every 15 minutes, so it clears on its own once the cause is fixed.

How Often Widgets Update

• Timeline: moves on by itself as each time block starts and as the day begins and ends, and loads the new day at midnight.
• Daily progress, Day load and Pace: follow the day at each block boundary, and load the new day at midnight.
• Weekly insights, Monthly insights and Streak: load the new day at midnight.
• New time block: never needs to update.

Align also updates its widgets when you change something in the app, such as completing or editing a time block, turning calendars on or off, or changing your day start and end. Changes synced from your other devices through iCloud update the widgets too.

iOS limits how often a widget can refresh, so an update can occasionally take a little longer to appear.

Tips

• Pair a Timeline widget on the Home Screen with Daily progress or Pace on the Lock Screen to see your next block and your progress in two places.
• Use the Timeline widget's checkmark to complete blocks as you finish them; the other widgets follow.

Related

• The Timeline
• Complete a Time Block
• Insights Plus
• Set Up Your Calendars
• Align Plus

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