Prayer-in-progress takeover

This feature turns the whole screen into a countdown around prayer time — a gentle nudge to put phones away and line up. It has three phases, all on the On screen tab (look for the Pre-Adhan, Pre-Salah, and In-progress screens).

The three phases

1. Before the adhan — a countdown leading up to the adhan (optional, on by default). Default length 1 minute.
2. Before the iqamah — a countdown between the adhan and the iqamah. Default length 1 minute.
3. During the prayer — a "prayer in progress" screen while the jamāʿah prays. Default length 2 minutes.

When the prayer is done, the display returns to the normal clock on its own.

Customising it

• Turn the whole feature on or off, and set the length of each phase.
• Write a custom message for each phase ("Please switch off your phones", "Straighten the rows", and so on).
• Opt individual prayers out — for example, skip the takeover for Fajr.

"Current prayer" — the state underneath

The takeover above is optional. What is always on is the clock face's current-prayer state: from a prayer's adhan until a hold period past its iqamah, the display stops counting down to the next prayer and shows

Current prayer · Dhuhr — with a countdown to the iqamah, then "Salah in progress" once the prayer has begun.

Without it, someone walking in for Dhuhr a minute after the adhan reads "Next prayer · Asr" and thinks they have missed it.

The prayer grid's highlight follows the same rule, so the header and the grid never point at different prayers.

• Set the hold on the On screen tab, under Current prayer — anywhere from "Until iqamah only" to an hour after. The default, 15 minutes, covers a typical jamāʿah plus the stragglers.
• It applies to content screens too, on the slim prayer bar at the bottom.
• The next-prayer countdown shows hours and minutes (no seconds) — a seconds digit ticking hours out from Asr is just noise on a wall display. The iqamah countdown, which people do time themselves against, keeps its seconds.