A prayer alarm
that is not late.
Tap for today's times, then read why alerts run late.
Today's prayer times where you are
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The problem is usually not the app
If you set a Fajr notification for 4:37 and it reached you at 4:44, the app most likely scheduled it correctly. Your phone's system delayed it.
The reason is that waking the phone costs battery, so the system holds back app notifications and bundles them together, waking the phone once instead of five times. That behaviour is intended, and it is useful for "drink water". For prayer it is a disaster.
It is worst at night, which is why Fajr suffers most
When a phone lies still for hours it drops into a deep sleep, and the delays get longer. So:
- Fajr is the prayer whose notification is most often late, because the phone has been asleep for hours.
- Dhuhr and Asr are the least affected, because you use your phone during the day and it stays awake.
If you notice that only your Fajr notification runs late, this is the reason, not a fault in the app.
A difference most people miss: notification or alarm?
| App notification | Clock alarm | |
|---|---|---|
| Wakes the phone on time | May be delayed | Yes |
| Rings even on silent | No | On iPhone with iOS 26 |
| Works with the app closed | Yes | Yes |
| Needs a special permission | No | Yes |
That is why your clock alarm is never late while app notifications are. No website can ever hold that permission: only an app installed from a store can.
Three steps that fix most delays, with any prayer app
- Android: Settings › Apps › your app › Battery, then choose Unrestricted. This alone fixes most cases.
- iPhone: Settings › Notifications › your app, and turn on Time Sensitive Notifications if you see it. Also check your Focus modes: one may be blocking it without you knowing.
- Both: if your app relies on the internet to send its notification, a dropped connection delays it. A notification scheduled on the phone itself is not affected.
Try this: set a notification for two minutes from now and put your phone aside for ten minutes. If it arrives on time, your settings are fine. If it is late, battery saving is the cause.
What Saeed does, without exaggeration
This is where honesty matters, so here it is plainly:
- Prayer times are calculated from your location with the Umm al Qura method, update every day and adjust themselves when you travel.
- The notification is scheduled for the prayer time itself, and you choose which prayers ring and which do not.
- Your notification hours are yours to set: Saeed only nudges you between the hours you choose (already set from eight in the morning to eleven at night). An alarm you set yourself always rings on time, even outside those hours.
- The browser version does not ring while your phone is on silent, and does not play a full adhan while the app is closed. No website can do that. For the full prayer alarm, use the App Store or Google Play version.
- Notifications in the browser version need a free account, because they are sent to your device in your name.
Why minutes matter for prayer alone
A seven minute delay on "drink water" means nothing. For prayer it means you started your time late, and a window that was already narrow got narrower. Maghrib is the shortest of them: an hour and a half, no more.
That is why a prayer alarm cannot be judged like any other alarm: a late prayer reminder is wrong information, not a missing feature.
Start where you are
The tool above gives you today's times. In the Saeed app they are saved and update with you every day, alongside the qibla direction and the full morning and evening adhkar.
And here is how prayer times are calculated, and why they differ between apps.
The time for each prayer
Questions about the prayer alarm
Why does my prayer notification arrive late?
Usually it is not the app. Phone systems hold back app notifications to save battery, and bundle them so the phone wakes once instead of several times. That is how a notification set for 4:37 arrives at 4:44, and it is worst at night, when the phone is asleep.
What is the difference between a notification and an alarm?
A notification is a message the system is allowed to delay. An alarm, like the one in your Clock app, is treated differently: it wakes the phone on time and rings even on silent. That is why your clock alarm is never late while app notifications are.
How do I stop my phone from delaying notifications?
On Android: Settings › Apps › Saeed › Battery, then choose Unrestricted. On iPhone: Settings › Notifications › Saeed, turn on Time Sensitive Notifications if you see it, and make sure a Focus mode is not blocking it. These steps work for any prayer app, not only Saeed.
Does Saeed's alarm ring when my phone is on silent?
Not in the browser version: that is something no website can do. The store app rings at prayer time even when it is closed, and on iPhone with iOS 26 it rings even on silent once you allow alarms. On other phones it follows the silent switch.
Does it ring for every prayer?
You choose: turn the alarm on for one prayer and off for another. Many people turn it on for Fajr alone, because it is the hardest, and leave the rest as they are.
Keep every prayer on time.
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