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Check-ins

Tap the ring on a habit to check in; tap again to undo. Touch and hold the ring for the two-minute version, rest, low energy or travel. For a habit you want less of, tap the square to log a clear day, or tap Log to enter the amount. To change a past day, open the habit and tap the day in its calendar.

Habits

Tap Habits on Today to reorder, pause or archive habits. The + button adds a habit: type a name or pick a suggestion, and tap More options for the full form. Today, Reflect and Settings are the three tabs. In the full form you can start a new habit after another habit you already do, and choose the day it starts. To step away, add time off in Settings: for all your habits or only the ones you choose, with a reason (Vacation, Low energy or Other).

When does a day end?

At 3:00 by default, so a late night still counts for the day it started. Change it in Settings > Day ends at.

Widgets

Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap Edit > Add Widget and search for Mostly Daily. Tap the ring (or the square, for a habit you want less of) on a widget to check in: it fills right away, without opening the app. When every habit is done, the Next up widget shows your mosaic. Widgets move to the new day on their own when your day ends.

Premium’s This week widget shows the habits that are due, a Limit habit or done today. To choose the habits yourself, touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget and tap Habits: pick up to 3 for the medium widget or 7 for the large one. They stay in the order you picked, every day, even on a day a habit is not due. Remove them all to go back to the automatic list.

For the Lock Screen, touch and hold it, tap Customize and add Mostly Daily. For Control Center, open it, tap + and add Check in or Clear day. If a widget ever looks out of date, open the app once.

Reminders

Each habit can have a reminder time (Premium: two, and Today can suggest a better time). Settings > Reminders gives the overview. A “Close the day” reminder in the evening, on by default, lets you finish what is still open with one tap each. You get at most two reminders a day. If a habit's reminders are ignored three times in a row, they pause until you check in again.

Apple Health

When you create a habit that can use Apple Health (steps, exercise, mindful minutes, sleep, stand hours, water, workouts, drinks), “Use Apple Health” is on; the system asks once when you save. Check-ins that come from Health stay on this phone. Settings > Apple Health lists what is read and saved; manage access in the Health app > Sharing > Apps > Mostly Daily.

iCloud

Habits, the check-ins you make yourself and time off sync through your private iCloud. Check-ins from Apple Health and drink logs stay on each phone; a second phone fills those days from its own Apple Health. Drink and cigarette logs never sync. The logs of other Limit habits stay on the phone unless you turn on “Sync logs through iCloud” in that habit’s settings (it is off by default). The reason you give for time off stays on the phone. The reason you add to a Limit log stays with that log, on the phone or, if you turned on sync for that habit, in your private iCloud.

How the levels work

Settings > About > How Mostly works explains the levels, never missing twice and rest days in the app's own words.

Premium

Restore purchases on the Premium sheet (Settings > Mostly Daily Premium). Manage or cancel a subscription in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. When Premium ends, habits beyond the Free plan are paused with all their history; nothing is deleted.

Export and delete

Settings > Export and import saves your habits, check-ins, time off and reviews as CSV files, on any plan. Settings > Delete all data removes everything from the app and your iCloud.