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Prayer times and qibla

Set your location, read the prayer and forbidden times, choose a calculation method, and find the qibla.

Set your location

Prayer times and the qibla are worked out on your phone. Your location is not sent anywhere.

  1. On the home screen, the prayer card asks for your location. Tap Use my location to let the phone find it, or Choose a city instead to pick it by hand.

    Home screen card saying prayer times need your location, with Use my location and Choose a city instead
  2. To pick by hand, tap the arrow beside the country to choose another country, then search for your city. Every country is listed; in Bangladesh you choose your district.

    The Choose your city sheet showing Bangladesh and its list of districts
  3. To change it later, tap the city name at the top right of the home screen, or go to Settings → Prayer times → Change location.

Read the prayer times

  1. The card shows each prayer's start and end, the time left until the next one, and the three forbidden stretches around sunrise, zawal and sunset.

    Home screen prayer card with Fajr to Isha times, a countdown to Dhuhr and the forbidden times
  2. Tap All salah times for the full day on its own screen, with sunrise and a note of which prayer is in now.

    Salah Times for Dhaka: Fajr to Isha with Dhuhr marked Now, and the sunrise, zawal and sunset forbidden times

Calculation method, Asr and Hijri date

  1. In Settings → Prayer times, choose the calculation method used where you live — for example University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi, Muslim World League or Umm al-Qura.

    Prayer times settings: calculation method, Asr method, Hijri date adjustment and location
  2. Set Asr to Standard (Shafi, Maliki, Hanbali) or Hanafi.

  3. If the Hijri date is a day off from your local moon sighting, adjust it with Hijri date adjustment.

Find the qibla

  1. Tap Qibla in Quick access. The bearing is shown in degrees from north; turn until the needle reaches the marker.

    Qibla Indicator compass showing 278° from north
  2. If the needle wanders, move the phone in a figure of eight to calibrate the compass. On a phone without a compass the dial can't turn, but the bearing is still shown.

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