Support

Answers to the questions people ask most. If yours isn't here, email support@daylightagenda.app. A real person replies, usually within two working days.

Emailing us? It helps to include your iPhone model, the iOS version (Settings › General › About), and the Daylight version (at the bottom of Daylight's settings). Please don't send journal entries. We never need them.

Email support

Getting started

My calendar events or reminders don't appear

Daylight needs permission to read them. Open the iPhone's Settings › Apps › Daylight and set Calendars and Reminders to Full Access. If some calendars are still missing, check they're turned on in the Calendar app. Daylight shows the calendars your iPhone syncs, including iCloud, Google and Exchange accounts added in Settings.

Sunrise and sunset times look wrong

The Day Circle uses your location, or a place you've chosen. Check that Location is set to While Using the App in Settings › Apps › Daylight, or choose a place from the Day Circle's detail view.

Can I turn off the sky background?

Yes. It's in Daylight's settings. With Reduce Motion turned on in iOS, the sky also stops animating.

Does Daylight work on iPad or Mac?

Version 1.0 is designed for iPhone and needs iOS 26 or later.

Daylight Pro and purchases

What's free and what's Pro?

The daily page is free for good: calendar, reminders, the editor, the Day Circle, search, mood, one photo per entry, one template, small widgets and plain-text export. Pro adds every template, tags, six photos, statistics, export to PDF and Markdown, version history, tides, larger widgets and more. See the full list.

How do I restore Pro on a new iPhone?

Sign in to the App Store with the same Apple Account you bought Pro with. Then open the Daylight Pro screen in Daylight and tap Restore purchases. There's no Daylight account to sign in to.

How do I cancel my subscription?

On your iPhone, open Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions › Daylight and tap Cancel Subscription. Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Pro stays active until the end of the period you've paid for, and everything you wrote stays yours.

How do I get a refund?

Apple handles all payments, so refunds are requested from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. We can't see or refund purchases ourselves, but if something went wrong, email us and we'll help however we can.

Can my family use Pro?

Yes. Lifetime and Yearly are shared with your Family Sharing group automatically, as long as purchase sharing is turned on.

Moving from Yearly or Monthly to Lifetime

Buy Lifetime from the Daylight Pro screen, then cancel the subscription in Settings so it doesn't renew. Apple doesn't pro-rate the remaining subscription period.

Your journal and your data

Is my journal backed up?

Daylight keeps everything on your iPhone, and it's included in your iPhone's iCloud Backup or computer backup. Daylight doesn't sync between devices yet. For a copy you control, export entries from the share menu on any day: plain text is free, and PDF and Markdown come with Pro.

I deleted something by mistake

With Pro, version history keeps the last thirty snapshots of each entry. Open the entry's menu and choose History. We can't recover data ourselves, because we never have a copy.

Can you read my journal?

No. It never leaves your device, and there's no account or server holding it. The Privacy Policy lists everything that does use the network.

How do I stop entries appearing in Spotlight?

Turn off Spotlight in Daylight's settings. The app clears its entries from your iPhone's search index.

Tides and widgets

Tides say there's no station nearby

Tides come from coastal tide stations. Inland, there may be none within range, and the dial shows that instead of guessing. Tides need Pro, an internet connection the first time, and your location or a chosen coastal place. The app keeps a week of tide data, so they keep working offline for a while.

My widget isn't updating

iOS decides when widgets refresh. Opening Daylight updates them straight away. The medium and large widgets are part of Pro. If a widget shows an older layout after upgrading, remove it and add it again.

Still stuck?

Email support@daylightagenda.app. For press and review copies, email press@daylightagenda.app or see the press kit.