Frequently asked questions.

Prayer Pause helps you scroll less and pray on time. Salah Focus blocks distractions during prayer, while meaningful pauses bring dhikr, Quran, quizzes, reflection, or du'a to mindless app opens. Sabr, your camel companion, reflects your habits in his changing desert world.

Sabr is your camel companion. On iPhone and iPad, his expression and desert world change with your Sabr Score, which reflects your screen habits and prayers. Tap him on the Home tab and he reacts.

On iPhone and iPad, open the Prayer tab. Qibla sits at the top, with your prayer times, streak, and calendar together in the same tab.

Salah Focus blocks apps during your prayer windows, with exceptions for apps you need. Choose which apps stay available in its settings. On iPhone and iPad, blocking uses Apple's Screen Time framework; on Mac, blocking also runs on your device.

When you open an app in Brick Mode, or one covered by a blocker with interventions turned on, Prayer Pause offers a meaningful activity instead of just locking you out. Options include a dhikr counter, Quran reading, an Islamic quiz, a moment of reflection, and du'a. Complete the activity, then choose how long the app stays open (5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes) or tap Never mind to walk away. Reflection is free, and the other options and Shuffle are part of Premium.

Screen Time access is required by Apple for any app blocking functionality. This permission allows Prayer Pause to manage app restrictions during prayer times. The blocking is handled on your device by Apple's frameworks, not on our servers.

Prayer times are calculated for your location by the Aladhan prayer-times service, using established Islamic calculation methods (ISNA, Muslim World League, etc.). You can choose the method that matches your local mosque or preference.

Guardian Mode uses background location updates to keep your prayer times, widgets, and blocking schedules accurate while you travel, so everything stays in sync as your location changes.

Streaks track your consecutive days of completing all five prayers. A single missed prayer will not always end a streak, but each one counts against it, and enough of them will end it. You can correct or fill in earlier days from the Prayer Calendar. On iPhone and iPad, find your streak and prayer calendar in the Prayer tab.

Yes. On iPhone and iPad, open the Block tab to create or edit a blocker. App Lists saves selections to reuse across blockers. For Salah Focus, choose the apps you want to keep available during prayer; other apps are blocked.

Make sure Location Services is enabled for Prayer Pause (Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Location Services). Widgets need location access to show accurate prayer times.

Go to Settings, then Prayer Times, then Calculation Method. You can choose from various methods or use Auto-detect based on your region.

Prayer Pause is free to download. On iPhone and iPad, prayer times, Qibla, streaks, and Daily Deeds are free, and you can use Brick Mode with one app for free. Premium adds Salah Focus, more blockers and apps, Focus sessions, alarms, and Home Screen widgets, with a free trial.

Prayer Pause is designed to be lightweight. Location is only used when needed, for prayer times, Qibla, and Guardian Mode if you turn it on, and the app uses Apple's efficient background refresh system.

Prayer Pause runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 16 or later, and on Mac with macOS 14 or later. It is a single universal purchase on the App Store, so one Premium subscription covers your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and you install the Mac app from the Mac App Store. Some features need newer software: widgets need iOS 17, and per-prayer alarms need iOS 26. Prayer Pause is also available for Android 8.0 or later on Google Play.

Prayer Pause has no account, so your data lives on your device. Deleting the app removes the prayer logs, streaks, and preferences stored on it. On iPhone and iPad your data also syncs to your own iCloud, so remove it through your device's iCloud settings too, or a reinstall can bring it back. For questions about the analytics we hold, see Data deletion in our Privacy Policy.

Not by name. On iPhone and iPad, app blocking runs on your device through Apple's Screen Time and Family Controls frameworks. The apps you choose are opaque Apple tokens, so Prayer Pause cannot see their names, and your screen time data stays on your device. The app does use analytics tied to a random identifier (not your name or email) to improve the experience, and Meta's ad-attribution SDK reports events like onboarding, trial starts, and purchases so we can measure our ads. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt controls whether your advertising ID is shared with Meta. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Salah Focus blocks distractions during your prayer windows. You can also set schedules for Jummah, Tahajjud, Taraweeh, and the Last 10 Nights of Ramadan, or use Brick Mode for all-day focus. On iPhone and iPad, Daily Limits lets you cap app usage each day from the Block tab.

No. Prayer Pause works fully on your iPhone, and no Apple Watch or other device is required. If you are signed in to iCloud, your settings and streak history sync automatically so they follow you to a new iPhone, and there is no account to create.

Yes. Add apps you need to Salah Focus's allowed list so they remain available during prayer. If you need everything back, turn Salah Focus off from the Block tab, or skip just today's next prayer, the next two, or the rest of today. Blocking also lifts once you mark the prayer, and otherwise when the prayer window ends.