Support

How can we help?

Answers to common questions, how to get the most from the app, and how to reach a person.

• Reporting an error in the office
• Getting started
• The office I expected didn’t open
• The readings look different
• Changing how the page looks
• Keyboard shortcuts on Mac and iPad
• Sharing the office as a PDF
• Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro
• System requirements
• Beta testers

Reporting an error in the office

The Prayer Book is the authority. If a psalm, lesson, collect or rubric in the app differs from the printed 1979 Book of Common Prayer for that day, please tell us — it will be checked against the book and corrected.

It helps to include:

• the office (Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer or Compline), the rite, and the date;
• what the app shows, and what you expected — with the book’s page number if you have it;
• your choices in Settings, especially Third Lesson and Parish Patron.

Send Feedback in the app fills in all of this for you.

Getting started

• Just read from the top. The psalms, readings, collects and canticles are already in their places — there is nothing to look up.
• Make your choices once. In Settings, choose your rite and the options the book leaves to the Officiant: the Invitatory, the Confession, the Absolution, the Suffrages, the Creed in Rite One, the Lord’s Prayer, a third lesson and a parish patron. The app keeps them every day.
• Another day or office. Tap the title and date at the head of the office — or choose Go to — to pick any office on any date.
• Help is built in. Help in the app covers every setting, written for the device you are using.

The office I expected didn’t open

Settings → Opens On decides which office the app opens on:

• The Time of Day opens Morning Prayer from 3 a.m., Noonday Prayer from 11 a.m., Evening Prayer from 2 p.m. and Compline from 8 p.m.
• Where I Left Off opens the last office you read, on today’s date.

An office or day you choose yourself is kept for half an hour. Compline after midnight belongs to the night before, so Saturday’s Compline keeps its own collect at one in the morning.

The readings look different from what I expected

• Third Lesson. Three lessons are appointed each day (BCP p. 934). Gospel reads all three at each office — right if you pray once a day. No reads two at each office and leaves the third for the other.
• Holy Days. A Holy Day brings its own psalms, readings and collect, and some feasts begin the evening before with readings for the eve.
• Parish Patron. If you’ve chosen one, the eve of that feast takes the readings the book provides for it (BCP p. 1001).
• Transferred feasts. A feast that falls on a greater day is moved as the Prayer Book moves it.
• Bracketed psalms. Where the lectionary offers a choice of psalms, the app reads the one the book gives as the alternative to the bracketed psalm.

Changing how the page looks

The Aa button opens Themes & Settings, and every change shows as you make it:

• Text size — the two A buttons.
• Page Turn — Slide, Curl, Fast Fade, or Scroll for one continuous column.
• Appearance — Light, Dark, or Match Device.
• Themes — Original, Quiet, Paper, Bold, Calm and Focus. Customize Theme changes the font, bold text, line, character and word spacing and margins, and Save as New Theme… keeps your version.
• Verse numbers — for the psalms and the readings, and readings as verses or paragraphs, in Settings.

Keyboard shortcuts on Mac and iPad

→  /  ←	Next or previous page; in Scroll, a screenful. Hold to keep going.
⌘1 – ⌘4	Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, Compline
⌘T	Today
⌘[  /  ⌘]	Previous and next day
⌘G	Go to a date
⌘+  /  ⌘−	Larger and smaller text
⌘R	Themes & Settings
⌘,	Settings
⌘?	Help

Sharing the office as a PDF

On iPhone, iPad and Mac, the share button makes a PDF of the office you are reading, with the copyright notice for its scripture on every page. Choose its page:

• For Printing — a US Letter page, for a bulletin or a sheet to pray from in a pew.
• For Phones — a page the shape of a phone’s screen, read without zooming. Send it to someone praying with you who doesn’t have the app; it opens on any phone, Android included.

Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro

Apple TV. Swipe or press on the Siri Remote to move through the office. Click the left side of the remote to open the sidebar — the four offices, Go to, Themes and Settings — and the right side to close it. To send feedback from Apple TV, write to feedback@dailyofficeapp.com.

Apple Vision Pro. Look toward the bottom of the window to scroll on, or pinch and drag. The buttons beside the window are Go to, Themes & Settings and Settings; choose the edge they sit on in Settings, under The Window.

System requirements

• iPhone and iPad: iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later
• Mac: macOS 15 Sequoia or later
• Apple Vision Pro: visionOS 2 or later
• Apple TV: tvOS 18 or later

No internet connection or account is required.

Beta testers

If you are testing Daily Office through TestFlight, you can also send feedback from TestFlight itself: take a screenshot in the app and tap Share Beta Feedback, or open the TestFlight app and choose Send Beta Feedback. Crash reports you choose to share arrive the same way.