Made for iPhone Duo — Clock Rings now takes full advantage of iPhone Duo. Unfold it and the app opens into a spacious two-pane layout, with your clocks and the screen you're working in side by side; fold it shut and you're back to the familiar single-screen Clock Rings. Open it in two windows at once and each one works on its own. Everything you already set up carries across the fold without missing a beat.

• Five-Minute Leeway — Clock Rings now credits your hours the way USPS pays them. For full-time and part-time regular employees, a tour that comes out within 5 minutes of your schedule is credited as a full tour (ELM 432.46) — so a 7-hour-55-minute day is paid as 8.00, not 7.92. It turns on automatically for the career crafts it covers (City Carrier, Clerk, Maintenance, MVS, Mail Handler). Your Pay Estimate, Reports, and Virtual Timecard compare now use these credited hours, while your actual worked time still shows on the Timecard. Prefer your actual clock rings, or you're a PTF/PSE paid on actual rings? Turn it off in Settings ▸ Work Schedule. • Password-protect your reports — when you share a PDF from Export Records or a Custom Report, turn on Password-protect PDF to encrypt it. Tap Generate strong password and it's saved in your iCloud Keychain — perfect for emailing a report to a supervisor or union rep. • Shared Status on Apple Watch — see who you follow and whether they're on the clock from your wrist: a new Shared Status page and a complication for your watch face. Reorder your watch pages (Settings ▸ Watch Faces ▸ Watch Page Order) to put Shared Status first. • Polish — friendlier "Next:" labels, a stray ID removed from the People You Follow card, and more reliable Start Live Activity.

Shared Status — see when a coworker, friend, or spouse is on the clock. Turn on Share My Status, invite the people you choose with a private link, and only they can see whether you're working, on lunch, or off — never your punches, pay, or location. See exactly who follows you, and remove anyone anytime. Follow people who invite you, get a notification the moment they punch, and pin their status to your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with a Live Activity. (Sharing your status is part of Clock Rings Pro; following others is always free.) Also — more accurate penalty overtime: the 2× penalty rules now apply the full postal triggers to all career full-time regulars (clerks, maintenance, MVS, and mail handlers), not just city carriers. Plus fixes and refinements throughout.

More accurate overtime. Penalty (2×) overtime now follows the full postal rules — over 56 hours in a service week, and overtime worked on more than 4 of your 5 scheduled days — in addition to over 10 hours in a day, with the December exclusion period respected. Your estimated gross and take-home follow the corrected breakdown. Thanks for tracking your tours with Clock Rings — questions or requests, email Eric@EricRogersTechnology.com.

Bigger screens, more room — on iPad, and on a large unfolded foldable, Clock Rings now uses a roomy sidebar layout, and you can open it in more than one window at once. Pay Adjustments and Deductions now work like Alarms — press and hold a row to Edit, Duplicate, or Delete, or tap Edit to select several and delete them together. Undo reaches more places — undo deleting a pay adjustment, a deduction, or a move-history entry, and undo clearing a day note. Fixed the Clock screen's "% through tour" label occasionally showing up out of place. Built for the latest iOS and watchOS, with reliability touches for Live Activities. Also in this update: • Fixed Undo not immediately showing a restored pay adjustment or deduction. • Fixed being unable to add more than one Custom deduction. Questions or a request? Eric@EricRogersTechnology.com — thanks for using Clock Rings!

A friendlier first run — the welcome tour now helps you set up as you go: pick your color, set your schedule, turn on Auto Clock Rings, and add your pay rate, so the app is ready for your first tour. The Leave calendar got a refresh — every day is now its own tile, the current pay period stands out clearly, and the legend is easier to read, in light and dark. Weather Alerts now notify you only while you're on the clock — no heads-up on your days off. (Adjust it in Settings → Work Schedule.) The Next Alarm countdown on the Dashboard widget is bigger and easier to read. Also in this update: • Fixed the calendar's "this pay period" highlight so it ends on the right day. • Cleaner dark mode — the alarm editor and other pop-up screens are now true black. • Extra polish and reliability touches throughout. Questions or a request? Eric@EricRogersTechnology.com — thanks for using Clock Rings!

Small under-the-hood fixes to keep things running smoothly. As always, thanks for tracking your tours with Clock Rings.

• The Custom Report builder is now part of Clock Rings Pro, alongside the other pay tools. • Behind-the-scenes reliability improvements.

Thanks for using Clock Rings! • Fixed an issue where some longtime users could find the pay and operations tools locked after updating. If you used Clock Rings before Clock Rings Pro, everything you had is unlocked for you automatically — no purchase needed. • Polish: the How-To Videos row in Help now lines up with the others, and Settings search finds more — including Clock Rings Pro, Auto Clock Rings, Language, Demo Mode, and the M-32 operation-code lookup.

Introducing Clock Rings Pro — and Auto Clock Rings. Pro is a one-time unlock (no subscription). Its headline is Auto Clock Rings: the app punches Begin Tour, lunch, and End Tour for you at your scheduled times. Pro also unlocks the paycheck tools — Pay Estimate, Deductions, Earnings Statement Compare, Reports export, and Operation Definitions. The whole core app stays free, and if you already use Clock Rings, Pro is unlocked for you automatically — everything you have stays yours. Also: design each corner of the widget yourself (Custom layout), a days-aware Next Alarm countdown, a quicker way to hide the language globe, Demo Mode in widgets, and cleaner banners.

New in Clock Rings: • A themed makeover. Every screen — Settings, the editors, Help, the Dashboard, and the Welcome tour — now draws its sections as cards outlined and tinted in your theme color, in both Light and Dark. Light Mode matches Dark instead of plain grey. A new Section Borders switch (Settings → Clock & Appearance) turns the card outlines on or off. • One widget, any size. The separate Home Screen widgets are now a single "Clock Rings" widget that comes in every size — long-press and tap Edit Widget to choose what it shows (Clock, Dashboard, Today, Payday, Tour Status, Next Event, Next Alarm, Tour Progress), the layout, and the clock face (including Icon). New layouts: a Single Clock — pick Standard or Decimal — plus One Clock + 3 Panels, and a fuller Extra-Large Dashboard on iPad and Mac. If an old widget reads "unavailable," just add the new Clock Rings widget and pick what you want. • More accessible. VoiceOver now speaks each punch — and tells you when one wasn't recorded. A two-finger double-tap (Magic Tap) on the Clock screen begins or ends your tour. Differentiate Without Color turns the Leave calendar dots into distinct shapes, and Reduce Transparency, Increase Contrast, and Bold Text are all honored. • Easier language switching, more Spanish. Switch or preview the app language right from the Welcome tour or from Settings, and weekday and month names, event names, and the Career/Retirement labels now follow it everywhere. Postal terms (Tour, Punch, Operations) stay English; the decimal clock keeps its period. • Sturdier alarms. Fixed a case where an alarm could show on but not actually arm, and another where a repeating alarm could quietly stop firing while still showing on. Scheduling now retries past transient hiccups and keeps your repeat days. • A new What's New page (Settings → Help), so you can catch up on changes any time. Questions or a request? Eric@EricRogersTechnology.com — thanks for using Clock Rings!

New in Clock Rings: • Clock Rings is now fully available in Spanish — the whole app, including the in-app Help, plus its widgets and the Apple Watch. If your iPhone is set to Spanish it all comes up in Spanish automatically. A new Language control (Settings → Clock & Appearance → Language) also lets you switch or preview a language inside the app without reopening it, and your widgets and watch follow along. Postal terms (Tour, Punch, Operations) stay in English, and the decimal clock keeps its period. • Larger text works everywhere now. At the biggest accessibility text sizes the Clock screen and the Dashboard used to break — readings and buttons truncated, and End Tour could slip off the bottom of the screen. The app now reflows into a single readable column and scrolls, so every control stays reachable. The Dashboard face's info tiles grow with your text size, while the big clock numbers stay the size you set. Everyday text sizes are unchanged. • The clocks move. Digits roll over instead of snapping, and the rings and progress bars sweep through the second. The Flip face finally flips — it was always drawn as a split-flap board, but the digit underneath used to swap instantly, so nothing ever turned. All of it holds still if you use Reduce Motion. • The ring looks right everywhere. Its thickness was a fixed size tuned for the full-screen phone face, so it came out too heavy on widgets and heavier still on watch complications. It now scales to whatever it's drawn on. The phone face is unchanged. • A punch the app can't accept now feels different from one it takes — a double-tap on Out to Lunch, or End Tour with no tour running, used to give the same confirming tap as a real punch. • If Face ID fails on a punch, Clock Rings now tells you your tour wasn't changed. Before, the button simply did nothing. • Swiping sideways changes tabs only on the Clocks screen now, so it stops fighting the Reports chart, swipe-to-delete in Punch History, and scrolling the Timecard. • VoiceOver reads every clock face. Several announced nothing at all — the widget ring, the Apple Watch Flip face, and the analog faces. • Two Both Clocks layout fixes: on the Rings face the title could touch the "Standard" label on a crowded screen, and on the Flip face the "PM" could run off the right edge with 12-hour time and seconds on. • Fixed alarms turning themselves off before you could stop them. A ringing alarm could clear on its own the moment the app refreshed in the background — when you opened Clock Rings, punched, a new day began, or your devices synced. Your alarms now keep ringing until you stop them, whatever the app is doing. • Fixed alarms disappearing from your list on their own. If you use Clock Rings on more than one device, an alarm could vanish — sometimes just from picking your phone up — when your devices' iCloud sync adopted an out-of-date copy of the list. Your alarms now stay put, while changes you make on another device still sync across. • Fixed worked time being under-counted when a tour had two clock-outs. If a tour ended up with a second, later End Tour punch, the app used the earlier one and shorted that tour's hours and pay estimate. It now uses the later clock-out.

Clock Rings now includes the full text of USPS Handbook M-32, Appendix A (April 2026), so you can look up exactly what an operation number covers before you charge a tour to it. Search by number, by title, or by any word in the wording, and tap any operation in your list to open its definition. The operation list itself has been rebuilt from that same handbook. The numbers, titles, and LDCs now match what TACS actually uses — including operations that were missing before, like both Standby Maintenance operations. If your saved craft or default operation was one that's no longer listed, it resets so you can pick again. Also in this update: • The Control Center, Lock Screen, and Action Button punch control now stays in sync no matter where you punch from — the app, Apple Watch, Siri, or the Live Activity. • The Dynamic Island countdown is easier to read when another Live Activity, like music or a timer, is running alongside it. • The Light / Dark / System switch in Settings is now a row of tappable tiles instead of a menu. • The Retirement card on the Dashboard shows the exact number of days remaining, under the countdown. • The app icon appears on the About page, and follows Light and Dark Mode.

New in Clock Rings: • Alarms are reliable again. Some alarms could quietly fail to ring, and others could ring three or four times. Background refresh was re-arming your alarms while iOS suspended the app mid-way, leaving some unset and others set twice. That's fixed, and Clock Rings now repairs any alarms left in a bad state — including ones stuck from an earlier version. • More accurate TSP and retirement deductions. A percent-based TSP (or FERS/CSRS) contribution is now taken from your BASE pay, the way your pay stub does it — overtime and premium pay no longer inflate it. This also makes your estimated take-home noticeably more accurate. • The Dynamic Island countdown ticks down again. The compact pill now shows a live count-down to your next event instead of a fixed clock time — and still stays accurate while Clock Rings is closed. • More accurate estimated take-home pay. When you run a report over a long date range that includes time you weren't tracking yet (like the Year view early on), it now estimates your net only for the pay periods you actually worked — so an empty stretch no longer makes your take-home look too low. • Fixed Light Mode looking flat — grouped cards are back on every screen. • Polish: the lunch and break time editors now match the dark-mode theme, and small layout tidy-ups on the Timecard and Alarm editor.

New in Clock Rings: • Your clocks stay accurate outside the app. The countdown on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, CarPlay, and widgets no longer freezes while Clock Rings is closed — it ticks live, and the Dynamic Island now shows your next event's exact time at a glance. A new background refresh keeps everything current and tidies up the "Clocked Out" banner on its own. • "Clocked Out" now reads the same everywhere — the DualClock and Icon widgets say "Clocked Out" off the clock instead of "No Tour." • Begin Tour at a Custom Time can now set an exact time for lunch, breaks, and End Tour right in the preview — not just your start time. • Annual leave on the Retirement card now shows its hours next to the cash-out value, like the sick-leave line. • Apple Watch now shows decimal time on your next event and schedule when Use Decimal Format is on. • A richer, clearer pay report — the PDF and in-app Reports now break out your deductions (mandatory vs. voluntary), show the total, your take-home percentage, and an average per pay period, so gross-to-net is easy to follow.

New in Clock Rings: • New clock faces — Minimal, Bar, Dashboard (a live info face), and a classic Flip clock, on iPhone and Apple Watch. • Operations tracking — clock your tour against TACS operations, "move" between them, and see time per operation for the day, week, and pay period. Now syncs across your devices, and every move can be edited, deleted, or backfilled from a new Move History screen — including an optional note for context ("saw Union Steward," "traveled to Station," etc.). (Optional, off by default — turn it on in Settings → Operations.) • New "Dashboard" widget — the live 6-tile status grid from the Dashboard clock face, in Small, Medium, and Large. The Small size can go on CarPlay too (iOS 26): add it under Settings → General → CarPlay → your car → Widgets, and your tour dashboard rides along in the car. • All-season weather alerts — heat, heat index, cold, wind chill, rain, snow/ice, storms, and wind, each with your own threshold. • How-To videos now update automatically from our YouTube playlist. • New Dashboard polish — clearer columns, day-of-week on Leave and Holiday, and a three-part Retirement card. • Redesigned app icon that adapts to Light, Dark, Tinted, and Clear. • Dark Mode refresh — menus, lists, and sheets now carry the Dashboard's dark-blue tint (and follow your Appearance color) instead of plain grey. • Send Feedback now includes a quick diagnostic summary, plus an expanded FAQ. • New auto-pause toggles for Weather Alerts, Holidays, and Leave Days — alarms (and now weather alerts, on any day you have no shift) quiet themselves automatically, no prompt needed. • Adjust Today's Schedule can now set an exact time for every event of the day — breaks, lunch, End Tour — not just your start time. • Fixed a rare bug where punches could appear duplicated after syncing across iPhone, widget, and Apple Watch. • Clock faces got a big pass — Detailed, Flip, Bar, and Minimal now fully honor your AM/PM, 24-hour, and flash-separator settings, and every face's colors now follow whichever format (Standard or Decimal) you've set as primary — on iPhone, widgets, and Apple Watch. • Dashboard now shows a live clock at the top in its own toggleable "Date & Clock" card, and the Dashboard clock face is the new default (with a matching, polished Apple Watch version). • Fixed alarms that could still ring on a scheduled day off, and a "Resume Now" that didn't always work — plus a new way to re-pause if you resume by mistake. • Fixes and refinements across the Dynamic Island, Live Activity, and more.

New in Clock Rings: • New clock faces — Minimal, Bar, Detailed (a live info face), and a classic Flip clock, on iPhone and Apple Watch. • Operations tracking — clock your tour against TACS operations, "move" between them, and see time per operation for the day, week, and pay period. (Optional; turn it on in Settings → Operations.) • All-season weather alerts — heat, heat index, cold, wind chill, rain, snow/ice, storms, and wind, each with your own threshold. • How-To videos now update automatically from our YouTube playlist. • Dashboard polish — clearer columns, day-of-week on Leave and Holiday, and a three-part Retirement card. • Redesigned app icon that adapts to Light, Dark, Tinted, and Clear. • Send Feedback now includes a quick diagnostic summary, plus an expanded FAQ. • Refinements across the Dynamic Island, Live Activity, and more.

Smoothing the rough edges. Day Off Ahead: the prompt that asks whether to pause your alarms for an upcoming day off no longer flickers when you open the app, and once you answer it stays answered. And on a day you've paused for time off, Clock Rings now leaves your normal tour alone — no "Tour Starts Soon" reminder and no pre-shift clock on your Lock Screen for a day you've marked off. Home Screen widgets: the clock face and the punch buttons now render correctly in the Clear and Tinted widget styles — they could show as blank white shapes before. Default and Dark are unchanged. Apple Watch: the Decimal and Standard time complications are larger and easier to read. Questions or a request? Eric@EricRogersTechnology.com — thanks for using Clock Rings!

Overtime, made clear. When you stay clocked in past your scheduled end, Clock Rings now shows your Overtime — a stopwatch counting up from when your tour was set to finish, with End Tour right there. You'll see it the same way on the Live Activity, the Dynamic Island, and your Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets. Before, once your scheduled end passed, the Live Activity could switch to "Begin Tour" and count down to your next shift — as if you'd already clocked out. Now it stays clearly in Overtime until you end your tour yourself. Also: the overtime line on the Clock screen reads "this week so far" once you're past your scheduled end, instead of pointing back at a time that's already gone. Questions or a request? Eric@EricRogersTechnology.com — thanks for using Clock Rings!

• Quiet Days — alarms now pause automatically on your days off, approved leave, and holidays instead of going off when you're not working. New "Always Pause on Scheduled Days Off" option skips the weekdays you don't work, no prompt. • Paused alarms now clearly show as paused in your list, so a pause never looks like nothing happened. • Earnings Statement Compare — paste your ePayroll statement and Clock Rings lines its numbers up against the estimate, all on-device with your name and ID masked. • New Lock Screen widgets: decimal & standard clocks plus a Tour Progress ring. • Leave and holidays now appear on the Reports chart. • iPad: the sidebar tucks away after you pick a section so it no longer covers your content. • Full VoiceOver support across widgets and Apple Watch. • Fixes: more reliable Lock Screen punches, iPhone landscape layout, and various polish.