How to Set Prayer Time Reminders in Bible Clock
Long before anyone carried a watch, a community could still keep time together — a bell rang a few times a day, and whoever heard it paused for a minute, wherever they were. Bible Clock keeps a small, quiet version of that old rhythm built into the dial.
Four hours, marked in gold
Look at the central dial and you'll notice four points marked apart from the rest — morning, midday, evening, and night. Each one carries an old name and a short line of Scripture that has been prayed at that hour for a very long time.
- Morning Prayer (around 6:00) — "In the morning, O LORD, I lay my requests before you."
- Midday Prayer (around noon) — "I give thanks to you with my whole heart."
- Evening Prayer (around 6:00 in the evening) — "Let my prayer rise as incense before you."
- Night Prayer (around 9:00) — "In peace I will lie down and sleep."
You don't need a single reminder turned on to see them. They sit there on the dial through the whole day, four small points of gold, whether you ever look or not. The reminders are for when you'd like the app to actually tell you they've arrived.
Turning reminders on
- Open Settings → Prayer reminders.
- Switch on Enable reminders. The first time, your phone will ask permission to send notifications — allow it, and Bible Clock will ring softly and vibrate at each of the four hours.
- Underneath, all four are listed separately, each with its own switch. You can keep Morning and Night on and leave Midday and Evening off, or run all four, or just one. There's no correct number.
- Tap a time to adjust it. A small dial lets you move the hour and the minute, in five-minute steps, until it lands somewhere that actually fits your day — Midday Prayer doesn't have to be at noon if your day doesn't work that way, and Night Prayer can sit wherever your evening actually winds down.
If you say no to notifications the first time and change your mind later, your phone's system settings will let you turn them back on for the app — nothing is lost by waiting.
A bell, not a bill
It's worth saying plainly what this is not. There's no streak to protect, no count of days missed, no badge for a perfect week. A monastery bell didn't keep score, and this doesn't either. If a reminder rings while you're driving, or in a meeting, or asleep, you let it pass and the next one still comes at its hour tomorrow. Nothing needs to be made up.
Some people turn on all four from the first day, treating the whole day as marked by them. Others switch on just one — Night Prayer, most often, as a small close to the day before sleep — and that is a complete way to use it, not a lesser one. The dial doesn't ask which you choose.
What the old bell offered a whole community, this offers quietly to one person at a time: a fixed point that isn't waiting on your mood or your schedule to decide it's time. You don't have to feel ready. The hour arrives either way, and for a moment, you're allowed to just stop.
Bible Clock puts a daily verse on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch — and, if you'd like, four quiet reminders through the day to pause and pray. One purchase, no subscription.