Reminders
Settings → Reminders. There are two switches, because these are two different things. iOS asks for permission once when you switch them on.
1. Remind me afterwards — the nudge to write things down:
- Sessions: 15 minutes after they end — but only if the session is not completed yet and was not cancelled.
- Deadlines: at nine on the due date, so the day is still there to work with — and only as long as the deadline has no final state and no lead time of its own.
If several sessions end close together – at most 30 minutes apart, say a lecture followed by a tutorial – you get one notification: “2 sessions to fill in”, with their names below.
Dismissed means dismissed. A reminder comes once. When you open the app again, it only schedules what still lies ahead.
2. Remind me beforehand — new in 5.2, with a lead time you choose:
- The switch is off after the update. Nobody should be surprised by notifications they did not set up.
- Below it you pick the default lead time, one day by default. It applies to newly created sessions and deadlines; existing ones stay as they are.
- Every session and deadline has a Remind me beforehand field. There you change or switch off the lead time, and a line below says exactly when the reminder will arrive.
- A series passes its lead time on to its sessions; a single session may differ.
Hours or days — the difference matters. “2 hours before” is a span of time. “1 day before” is the same time of day, one day earlier. On the night the clocks change these are two different things, and both are right.
For a deadline without a time, a lead time in days reminds you at nine in the morning — reminding you at 23:59 would be no help.
If the calculated moment has already passed, no notification is pushed after the fact. The form says so, and a shorter lead time resolves it.
While travelling everything stays on the university's time: the calculation uses the semester's time zone, not the device's.
Reminders are planned for the next 30 days. iOS allows 64 pending notifications per app, and all reminders share that limit. That is why the settings say until when reminders are scheduled. If it does not cover the full 30 days, StudyNow plans more the next time you open the app — including when you return from the background. If you do not open the app for a very long time, missed reminders are not delivered afterwards; no app can promise that.
If you denied permission in the iOS settings, that is shown there too. The lead times on your entries are unaffected.
Tapping the reminder after a session (“How was the session?”) opens the session, or the catch-up list when several sessions are due.
Rating on Apple Watch
If StudyNow is installed on your Apple Watch as well, you can rate sessions there. The watch app comes with the iPhone app; iOS installs it on the watch if automatic app install is switched on in the Watch app on your iPhone, otherwise under Available Apps there.
- From the reminder: when the reminder after a session arrives on the watch, tapping it opens its rating. With several sessions (“2 sessions to fill in”) you get the list.
- From the list: the app on the watch shows what is left to fill in, the most recent session first.
The rating is the same as on the iPhone, just smaller: attendance at the top (for an exam, the result), then the four scales as five dots. Tapping a chosen dot again clears it. Done sends the rating to the iPhone and closes the session.
The watch stores nothing itself. It sends the rating to the iPhone, even when the iPhone is not nearby – it arrives as soon as both are connected again. StudyNow enters it the next time you open the app, as if you had tapped it on the iPhone. The watch also learns from the iPhone which sessions to show: open StudyNow there once and the list is up to date. At school there is no rating per lesson, so the list stays empty.