Lesson 3 of 3 · About 3 minutes

Getting Around Your Device

The app’s icon

On the Home Screen, touch and hold the Daily Office icon.

Morning Prayer, Noonday, Evening Prayer and Compline appear.

Tap one.

That office opens, for today.

Prayer Cards

A Prayer Card is a widget with a short prayer for each day. Add one to your Home Screen or Lock Screen from the widget gallery. Lesson 1 shows you how to choose its leather.

The menus

Much of what the toolbar does is in the menu bar too:

Office has the offices and devotions, the Meditation Timer, Today, Previous Day, Next Day, Go to Date…, and the Language of the office.
Read has Page Turn, Larger Text and Smaller Text, the Theme, Appearance, the Headings Font and Body Font, the Prayer List… and Themes….
View has Next Page and Previous Page.
Help has Learn Daily Office, Send Feedback…, and links to the app’s support and website.

Settings… is in the Daily Office menu.

The window

Make the window as wide as you like. The lines stay as long as the printed page’s, and the margins grow.
The window opens at the size you left it.
In full screen, the toolbar slides away with the menu bar. Move the pointer to the top of the screen to bring it back.

Daily Office opens in a window of its own, with the office in one continuous scroll.

To scroll, look toward the bottom of the window, or pinch and drag.
To use a button in the toolbar, look at it and pinch. Go to is among them.
Overflow (…), at the end of the toolbar, holds the rest, with Settings.
The voice keeps reading when the window is in the background. Its controls are in Control Center.

The sidebar

The sidebar lists the four offices, the Daily Devotions, the Other Services and the Devotions, then Go to, Prayers, Timer, Themes, Settings and Learn.

Press Back on the remote.

The sidebar opens.

Select a place in it.

It opens, and the sidebar closes.

Back also takes you up a level: from a page inside Settings back to Settings, and from there to the sidebar. Back from the sidebar leaves the app.

The remote

Swipe to move through the office.
Click down or up to move the page a quarter of a screen at a time.
Click right to go on to the next part of the office, and left to go back to the start of this part, or to the one before.
Press Play/Pause to hear the office read aloud.