By improving the SolarCalculator strings, I introduced a regression to widgets where it repeats "than yesterday".

In the upcoming 1.1.4 release, there's a new setting that changes how notifications behave when daylight is decreasing. I should make sure notifications are rebuilt when this setting changes.

Hi Dan, thank you for the app, it’s a nice gadget! I have a problem with notifications, they don’t appear. Actually they did appear but just once, the day after first installation. Then I never saw one again.

Notifications are enabled in the app and also in iOS settings.

I didn’t try to uninstall and reinstall.

I’m not using the widget.

Running iOS 14.4 on an iPhone XR

Submitted by Riccardo Forina ([email protected])

I’m trying to add a solstice widget to one of my Home Screens but it doesn’t show on widget list, or even on the “+” list to add new. I’ve already removed and reinstalled the app and rebooted my iPhone. I’m using an iPhone 8 Plus with iOS 14.2

Submitted by Ricardo Gouveia ([email protected])

Solstice has one 1-star review. In its entirety, it reads:

Location enforced = 👎
No manual specification possible.

I don't want location access to be a blocker for the app, so should make it possible to manually specify a location.

Relatedly, I might take this as an opportunity to build the option to save locations, similar to weather apps.

I received one relative notification when first setting them up, but haven't gotten anything since. This needs further investigation.

The spacers in the main view seem to grow and jitter when the view is vertically scrolled.

Love the app / widgets! I would love it even more if it showed how much sunlight was left in the day

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Daily notifications should include more information, such as sunset/rise time and daylight changes

The issue with accessing the second screen still persists, even after the update to 1.0.1.

Submitted by Marina ([email protected])

The app should have better permission handling:

• Allow continued usage with cached location
• Let people enter the app to "preview" it without using real location
• Show less invasive feedback when permissions are changed/revoked

Right now there are a handful of hard-coded new Date instances in SolarCalculator. Additionally it would be nice to create SolarCalculator with an arbitrary date for things like notifications and time travel.

• The widget should become forefront when approaching sunrise/sunset
• Widgets should refresh more regularly
• Widgets should refresh when location caches are updated

e.g. existing Solstice users

Still cannot get to the second screen of the app (now version 1.0.2)

Submitted by Marina ([email protected])

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Submitted by dan ([email protected])

Reports of 45min-and-declining sunlight differences from the previous solstice are greatly exaggerated.

Also, there's a bug in the solstice calculator code that will only rear its head after the winter solstice but before the new year.

The thing you tried to fix is now pretty much constant for me in 1.0.1. I didn’t see it in the first version

Submitted by Craig Reynolds ([email protected])

Hello, I recently discovered your solstice app and it almost does what I’m looking for.
Currently solstice allows to configure a fix time for when to send a notification.
I’d like to get a notification e.g. 75 minutes before today’s sunset.
Would it be hard to add this?

Submitted by Hermann

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The duration picker doesn’t seem to publish changes to its value until after the second time the value changes. This is probably a bug in the UIViewRepresentable implementation of this view.

Hey! Great app! I'd love it if you could add a shortcut to provide sunrise/set times for shortcuts! Would help save an API call to weather! Thanks and keep up the great work!

Submitted by Ryan Jones (@ichibod)

Hello, I can’t seem to find the home screen widget for iOS14. I have made sure to open the app before trying to find the widget. Do you have any recommendations? Thank you.

Submitted by Matt ([email protected])

The homescreen widget shows the wrong sunrise/sunset times

Submitted by Marina ([email protected])

When I try to swipe to the second page, the image gets half-way, and then either gets stuck or bounces back to the first.

Submitted by Marina ([email protected])

blah blah

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The secondary screen has some information about the next/previous solstice, but the maths is wrong. Right now there's an incorrect and very slim window for solstices.

I've had several requests from folks to add sunrise/set times to the small widget instead of daylight changes

At noon, the sun's shadow gets clipped by the container

Someone left a 3-star review pointing out that the solstice dates are approximated (wrong).

I use the Infograph modular watch face, the big one for Solstice. The complication never seems to update. I am on the latest public betas, maybe that is the problem.

Submitted by Andreas Bockisch

The watch complication isn’t working as expected. The sun dot doesn’t update as the day progresses. I can show screenshots. :) love the app btw

Submitted by John Choura Jr. ([email protected])

The remaining daylight Siri intent isn’t super useful yet since it only returns a string representation and not a duration value. It should return a duration value to use as an output in Shortcuts.

Really love your app. With the latest update, sunrise times are now in PM. Sunset times are in AM. Seems backwards! I’m on the East Coast of the USA, if that helps.

Submitted by Matt Edwards ([email protected])

https://twitter.com/tarngerine/status/1474055134732763138?s=21

Sometimes when opening the app throughout the day, the sundial shows an old time representation. The app should update its main view at least once an hour.

I don’t see any ads in your great Solstice app. How do you make a revenue?

Submitted by serko

It would be nice to allow folks to choose a location via map view, both for checking daylight in other locations and for avoiding location access.

Now that Solstice is gaining popularity, I'm feeling self-conscious about the (in hindsight) half-baked onboarding screen.

I wonder if I can do something creative with the sunny background gradients I put together for the App Store screenshots. Either way, the content can remain the same but the screen itself should be more polished and probably present as a full screen cover rather than just switching to the main view.

While notifications can be helpful when we’re getting more daylight each day, it can be depressing when we’re getting less. Adding an option to turn off notifications during periods of reduced daylight would be great.

Suggested by Craig Grannell.

https://twitter.com/linusekenstam/status/1350526735951998979?s=21

Hey! Still loving the app but the data in the widget hasn’t been updating for quite a while now.

Submitted by Ruben ([email protected])

Main page works fine but when I swipe left to access the other page/screen it snaps right back, making it impossible to see that page.

I am using iPhone 12 running iOS 14.4. This issue does not occur when using the iPad version

Submitted by Geoff Snailham ([email protected])

There's a persistent bug occurring where opening the app with long periods between sessions shows an outdated sundial view. The view should consistently update to the current time.