Diwan Diwan: Manar’s new community. Post, reply, follow and message other Manar readers in one place, in a fast X-style design. Manar’s messages reach you in a pinned chat inside it. New «Today’s worship» widget with a new design. Saudi school calendar in the calendar. «Read with your voice»: waveform bar, a sound on mistakes, Warsh recitation. Audio tafsir with text, plus the «Mukhtasar» set. Choose what the widget counts down to. Home: simple view, and hide services and cards. Hadith index by book, and search for a surah in the Mushaf index. «My highlights» in the book reader. «My shortcuts» on the right or left. «Glimpses»: long-press for 2× speed, and a new profile design. The iqama is heard while the iPhone is on silent. «Full adhan» is off by default, with its volume level explained. Moving to the next surah while the app is in the background. Home no longer bounces at the page edge. Fixes «Ahmad Talib bin Humaid» now plays only his own voice. The weekday name replaces the number in the «Day and times» widget. Basmala between two surahs in «Read with your voice». Birmingham prayer times all year. Accessibility with VoiceOver and TalkBack. Reading improvements in «Arabic language».

What's new (English): Highlights: Less heat: much lower battery and processor use, especially in the tasbih, auto-count, Glimpses, the Mushaf and the home screen iPhone adhan alarm: the adhan now plays once instead of repeating until you tap Stop iPhone adhan alarm no longer rings outside prayer times Fixes: Asr no longer switches to the Hanafi method by accident, and choosing it now asks for confirmation City picker: every city with the same name now shows with its country and region the city you pick is saved exactly the country appears on the home screen UK and Ireland now default to the Moonsighting Committee method, used by most of their mosques Fixed a crash when swiping Mushaf pages Fixed a launch crash on some iPhones Fixed audio stopping suddenly when recitation plays in the background iPhone adhan follows your chosen volume, with a 20–100% slider Liquid Glass buttons and switches: no longer show above pop-up windows no longer change look when you come back from another page "Elapsed since" in the Live Activity now counts from the adhan Tafsir and tajweed rules now sit on a soft paper background instead of white Fixed a typo in Tafsir al-Saadi "Repeat ayah" works for every ayah, and pausing for breath in "Read aloud" is no longer marked as a mistake Ayah video: clearer, bolder tafsir Madinah 1405 surah frame smoother transitions between ayat photo backgrounds show the ayat and surah name on iPhone Quizzes show the correct answer after a wrong answer or time-out Unsourced details removed from the biographies, with "Sources" added under each one Traveler's loading cards are read aloud by screen readers New: Adhkar index: jump straight to any dhikr Glimpses: "For You" learns what you like to watch and shows more of it, while keeping variety five new topics: lesson, fatwa, hadith, tafsir, dua a fresh feed every time, clips you disliked never return, and Home refreshes the feed and starts it from the top new bottom bar and search at the top Inbox shows one row per like and follow follower and following lists on every profile topics as #tags, plus a feed filter Traveler: prayer times where you are, qibla, nearby mosques, travel duas, and Ibn Baz's fatwas on shortening and combining prayers My Debts: a debt ledger with reminders and an archive of paid debts Voice search: recite part of an ayah in the Mushaf search to find it Similar Verses (Mutashabihat) with the differing words highlighted Tafsir in the margin in two-page view Paper-style page curl for the Mushaf "My memorization" quiz and recitation-check modes that track your weak spots Reciter Al-Oyoun Al-Koshi (Warsh) The built-in Mushaf is the King Fahd Complex 1441 AH print Duha time at the minute you choose, shown in the prayer list Choose the pre-adhan reminder sound Auto-count in the tasbih, with totals and a reset for count and rounds Virtuous-deed reminder from the Virtues section Adhkar widget: Jawami' al-Du'a, with the repeat count on its own line Custom reciter in ayah videos, and long ayat split across screens Link a guest account to Google or Apple and keep your settings Manabir: automatic order, nearest dates first and newest courses first New "Share the app" text describing what Manar offers Ready for the foldable iPhone

New: Glimpses Short clips shared by Manar readers, in the middle of the bottom bar. - Two tabs, "For You" and "Following". Swipe sideways to switch between them. - Each clip moves on to the next when it ends, with a progress bar you can drag. - Like, save, share, and follow the creator. Double-tap to like. - Download a clip to your Photos, with the Manar logo at the end. - Your profile: photo, name, bio, plus your posts, saved clips and likes. - Post your own clips, up to 90 seconds. Fixes - "Prayer Mushaf" no longer closes when opened. - "Prayer Mushaf" now remembers your reading position. - Prayer times now show without internet. - Prayer times on Apple Watch without opening Manar. - Manar widgets now appear in full in the widget gallery. - Smoother Haramain live broadcast, and audio keeps playing with the screen locked. - "Midnight" on the Lock Screen widget. - The Lock Screen widget is clearer and better organized. - "Full Adhan" now works, and is on from the start. - Adhan preview now plays in full. - Manar no longer stays in "Now Playing" when you haven't played anything. - "Recite Aloud" no longer counts idgham, iqlab and joined words as mistakes. - "Recite Aloud" stops when you leave the app. - Arabic numerals are accepted in every number field. - Manar messages appear at the top of "Manar Community". - "Read to a Teacher" no longer closes on the teacher screen. - The Mushaf no longer closes the app during continuous recitation. - Ayah video now completes the recitation of every ayah. - The surah name in the video is at the top, in the ayah's color. - The "recited at night" note now appears above the last verses of Al-Baqarah in the evening adhkar. - The screen reader now reads "Reminder sound". - Opening battery and Do Not Disturb settings no longer closes the app. - Mushaf pages no longer show broken letters. - The persistent countdown for Asr now ends when the sun turns yellow. - Manar is lighter on the battery and keeps the phone cooler. - "Continue Reading" updates instantly, and "Read Al-Kahf" saves your position. - The word «طغيانا» now displays correctly in the 1405 Mushaf. - Ayah numbers in the 1405 Mushaf are no longer reversed. - «سَجْدَةٌ» in the margin is now complete and fully voweled. - Mushaf margins no longer overlap, and are smaller. - Playlists now move on from one surah to the next. - Ayah repeat now repeats each ayah, then moves on to the next. New - "Al-Mukhtasar fi al-Tafsir" in the Mushaf. - A new khatmah type: "By Juz and Hizb". - "Full Story" in the Prophets Encyclopedia. - "My Notes": your own notes on any ayah. - A "Review Plan" for what you've already memorized. - Reciters' recitation in the "Manar Qiyam Mushaf". - A completely new Tasbeeh. - Tasbeeh and Ruqyah now come first on the Adhkar page. - Reorder your adhkar, and hide the ones you don't want. - "Time since prayer" with its own setting and duration. - A "Today & Prayer Times" widget. - A "My Khatmahs" widget. - A redesigned medium "Prayer Times" widget. - The Hijri year on the home date card. - A clearer "Manar Community" alert. - "My Appointments" with countdowns, a widget, and a button to add to your calendar. - Step-by-step "Ruqyah", with full audio playback. - More accurate Qibla, with new "By the Sun" and "On the Map" modes. - Weekly prizes for the top three in contests, with a badge for every win. - "Manar Contests" now run from Friday to Thursday. - Weather on the next-prayer card. - Ayah text color in videos now matches the background. - Use a photo from your phone as an ayah video background. - A "Listen" button before "Create" in ayah video. - Name your bookmarks in the Mushaf. - A "Remove the previous one?" prompt when using a bookmark color that's already in use. - "Recite Aloud" alerts you to a repeated word. - "Recite Aloud" stops by itself if it hears no recitation. - "Fatwa": links to official websites only. - A short description for every book in the library.

Fixed the Prayer Mushaf issue Added temperatures Added a background that changes with the current time Prophetic Medicine General fixes and improvements

Prayer Mushaf: Place your phone in front of you and pray. The ayahs appear in very large text, and Manar follows your recitation and scrolls with you. Make a Quran video and share it! Pick ayahs, choose a reciter or record your own voice, then pick one of our backgrounds or a clip from your phone. You get a clip ready for your statuses and stories. Long-press any ayah ← «Video». The full adhan on iPhone, even on silent. It rings like an alarm, even in Focus mode. Turn it on from Adhan Volume ← Play Adhan in Silent Mode. Each prayer has its own switch (iOS 26.1+). New: Madinah Mushaf 1405 AH (Uthman Taha script) with its own surah frame Thematic Mushaf: ayahs coloured by topic Your Adhan: add an adhan from your phone's files Minbars of Knowledge: courses, live lessons and announcements My Notebook, now with My Tasks and reminders 20 new reciters The story of every battle in Seerah Tables Qiyam al-Muqantirin: a counter up to a thousand ayahs Manar Contests every Friday Read to a Teacher: Quran recitation and the students' mutoon Zakat calculator: livestock, crops and fruits Neglected Sunnahs Asr's preferred time and its time of necessity Prayer Columns on the lock screen, and a large All-in-One widget Apple Watch: both dates, Qibla, and a mute for the tasbih click Last Third of the Night in widgets Tafsir and translation in ayah videos Al-Mukhtasar Audio, and Quran meanings in English as audio Mushaf in landscape or portrait; the book reader rotates too Sleep timer in Media, Radio and Live broadcasts Search for a surah in a reciter's list Completed / Not completed on adhkar A clearer notification centre, and silent reminders Four surah frame designs from King Fahd Complex mushafs Update your khatmah by ayah, and restart it once finished Adhkar in the feminine form Reasons of revelation, and tajweed colouring Prayer countdown on CarPlay Playlists in Special Recitations Full-screen share cards, and copy any dhikr or dua Redesigned ayah menu and Downloaded Surahs Rearrange Our Services as you like Your Profile and My Stats in Settings Default reciter: Mahmoud Al-Husary Rate Manar without leaving the app One suggestion a week in Manar Community Fixes: Tafsirs and translations follow the way of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah Fewer crashes, and Manar no longer closes on launch on iPhone Recitation keeps working during a call Fonts work offline in almost every language Recitation flows with no pause between ayahs, and resumes where you stopped The play button no longer jumps to Al-Fatiha Tafsir text and surah names are readable in dark mode Mushaf paper in the colour of the Madinah Mushaf «بَلَىٰٓ» in Al-Ahqaf 33 is drawn in full Continue Reading: more space, and you can remove a line from it Bigger text on the Today cards Full-screen sharing fits a short ayah on one line Card Maker: a girl named Manar can publish under her own name Rotating the phone no longer changes the mushaf page Auto-scroll keeps your place, and your finger takes over Downloads, tafsirs and translations stay after updating Special Recitations shows a progress bar instead of LIVE Prayer times match each country's official tables, city by city Egypt: Dhuhr on time The Qibla compass works on iPhone Apple Watch complications update on their own Hadith of the Day opens that same hadith Search inside books no longer stalls Reasons of revelation: authentic reports only Quran Teacher: approved requests only, one request per student Mosque Challenge is hidden for women Screen reader: home keeps its focus, reminders read their state, no repeated colour names

What's new — Manar, 24 September 2026 Fixes Accessibility: VoiceOver now reads the bottom navigation bar from the moment the app opens Read to a Teacher: the "Available for tasmee'" switch now works for approved teachers Personal Library: the add-book and rename dialogs now have proper padding Corrected the prayer-time calculation method for Libya Mushaf: resuming after a pause continues from where you stopped Mushaf: "Ayah with tafsir" mode now highlights the recited ayah and follows it Qiblah: the "Enable location" button now works on iPhone Quranic text outside the mushaf is now set in the mushaf's own script Additions Improved the Apple Watch complications Sunrise and Duha prayer now appear in the home-screen countdown A "prohibited prayer time" line under the countdown during the five such times An optional 4-digit lock for My Duas Journal Read to a Teacher: always opens on its main page and shows your name and gender — students can edit both Manar Library: a clearer layout and easier browsing Khatmah: every wird names the ayah it begins and ends with Media player: "When the surah ends" — go to the next, repeat it, or stop Tapping "Don't forget to remember Allah" opens the Daily Hundred Adhkar

- Fixed the adhan not firing when the internet is off - Corrected prayer calculation method for Yemen and Algeria - Live broadcast from the Two Holy Mosques works in-app again - Post-prayer adhkar: added the missing tenfold dhikr for Fajr and Maghrib - Morning adhkar: moved the last two verses of Al-Baqarah to their correct place - Recite Aloud: clear sign-in message instead of a generic error - Widgets: correct preview in the widget gallery, and numeral-style setting respected - Mushaf: smoother auto-scroll when swiping by hand - Mushaf on large foldable screens: full use of the display - Tasbih: the selected dhikr no longer switches on its own - Fixed the "Share Manar" button - Hadith Verification: Arabic text now renders correctly - Accessibility: VoiceOver now reads the bottom bar and notification cards - Updated the "Post-Prayer Adhkar Challenge" icon - Removed the "Names of Allah" page - "Contact us" is now for important issues only

Fixes 1. Saudi prayer times now match the Umm al-Qura calendar exactly 2. Qatar prayer times now match Dar Al-Taqwim Al-Qatari 3. UAE prayer times now match the Awqaf timetable 4. Maghrib's ending time was computed off the Isha adhan 5. The iqamah duration you set now applies everywhere 6. A prayer alert no longer arrives after its time has passed 7. The adhan now stops when a call comes in 8. Sunrise, midnight and last-third alerts no longer use the adhan voice 9. iPhone: you are now told when Background App Refresh is blocking alerts 10. "Choose your city" now carries every Saudi village and governorate 11. Ikhfa vocalisation corrected in the mushaf (128 words) 12. Page 62 said "Juz 3" while it opens Juz 4 13. All 114 surahs were labelled "Medinan" 14. Surah names showed an empty box above a letter in 41 surahs 15. "Khawatim al-Baqarah" in Ruqyah was one ayah instead of two 16. Dua al-Istiftah was welded from two narrations; now Muslim's in full 17. "Alaykum bis-sidq" is Ibn Mas'ud's, not Abu Hurayrah's or Ali's 18. "Ittaqu Allah wa'dilu bayna awladikum" is now al-Bukhari's wording 19. Al-Mu'awwidhat now open with the Basmalah 20. The Hijri New Year and Blessed Friday cards removed 21. The mushaf didn't fill its page on many devices 22. Enlarging the mushaf font cut a letter off the line 23. The pause between ayat in recitation removed 24. Switching reciter mid-recitation silenced the audio 25. A long press on an ayah opened the word window, not the ayah menu 26. Audio now follows the reciter in the two-page mushaf 27. Better mushaf layout on foldables and tablets 28. An ayah that downloaded incomplete stayed incomplete forever 29. Long adhkar cards were cut off with no way to read the rest 30. The memorisation plan can now run from Juz 30 downwards 31. Read Aloud: skipped words are recorded and shown 32. Read Aloud now works on devices without Google services 33. "Verify the hadith" leads with the strongest ruling, in full 34. Dorar links now open the hadith itself, not the search page 35. 48 fatwa links corrected in Men & Women rulings 36. Fixed the frozen qibla compass on iPhone 37. Fixed Live Activities on iPhone 38. Share cards were losing the ayah and the repeat count 39. The save-dhikr button now saves into My Dua Journal 40. Fixed the "Date" widget that refused to be added 41. Fixed the "Assorted Adhkar" widget that opened the tasbih Additions 1. New calculation methods: Morocco, Jordan, Syria and Iraq 2. One master switch for all prayer alerts 3. Multiple reminders before and after the adhan 4. "Silent" adhan volume level, and a short chime tone 5. A new adhan voice: Abdulaziz Majid 6. Two spoken alerts: the last hour of Friday, and the last third of the night 7. The Hijri date under the persistent prayer countdown 8. A lock screen widget showing the current and next prayer 9. A Live Activity countdown on the iPhone lock screen 10. The "Adhkar" widget turns its card on an interval you choose 11. The mushaf bars redesigned and the player rebuilt 12. Plus and minus buttons for the mushaf font size 13. Qur'an in adhkar cards now set in the mushaf face 14. The closing ayat of al-Baqarah in the morning and evening adhkar 15. Al-Fatihah now recites in Ruqyah 16. A "Meaning" tab for over 77,000 words, offline 17. A surah index in Manar's Qiyam mushaf 18. A new reciter: Zaki Daghestani 19. "Private voices": upload recitations, kept on your device only 20. "My Personal Library": your shelf, daily schedule and stats 21. The khatmah's daily portions as a list, each with its own tick 22. The mushaf tells you when today's portion is done 23. A khatmah starts from where you already are 24. The "Fami bi Shawqin" khatmah: seven days, from any juz 25. My appointments in the calendar 26. The Mawaqit dates became your own dates 27. 13 new adhkar in the tasbih, plus custom ones 28. A voice mode for the Qur'an quiz 29. 11 new supplications in the Prophet's duas 30. Teacher approval in "Read to a teacher"

* Prophet Muhammad Card * Option to Select the City Instead of Allowing Location Access * General Improvements

Improved display of Warsh, Qalun, and Pakistani Mushaf Added Oman to the list of countries for prayer times Added option to switch Hijri calendar from Umm al-Qura to other calendars Moved Imams schedule and Haramain lessons to the home page

In this release: - Full Quran with 41 reciters and ayah-by-ayah recitation - Prayer times & adhan with 12 calculation methods and Qibla direction - Adhkar and duas with reminders - Hijri calendar and date converter - Islamic library and a tasbih with a global leaderboard - 7 customizable home-screen widgets - Available in 20+ languages, no ads Your feedback matters — reach us from inside the app or leave a rating on the store.