What's new in Clock Rings 2026.08.15

This is a big one. Clock Rings 2026.08.15 brings the whole app into Spanish, rebuilds every clock face so the hands, digits, and rings actually move, closes out a long pass on accessibility, and fixes a handful of real bugs around alarms and worked hours. It's in TestFlight now, ahead of the App Store.

Clock Rings speaks Spanish now

Every tab, screen, setting, alert, and the full in-app Help is translated — including the Welcome tour, Pay Estimate, Weather alerts, and Deductions. It reaches further than just the app itself: your Home & Lock Screen widgets, your Apple Watch, Live Activities, and the Control Center / Lock Screen / Action Button punch control all follow along too.

A new Language setting (Settings → Clock & Appearance) lets you pick System, English, or Español — right inside the app, no reopening required. It defaults to System, so a Spanish iPhone comes up in Spanish automatically and nothing changes unless you pick a language yourself. A few things stay English on purpose — postal terms like Tour, Punch, Operations, Virtual Timecard, and OT — and the decimal clock always keeps its period (12.50, never 12,50), in every language. Dates read naturally too — "Jul 25" in English, "25 jul" in Spanish.

The clocks actually move

Every clock face used to redraw itself once a second by hard-cutting the digits — 9:29 simply became 9:30. Now the digits roll over and the rings and progress bars sweep through the second instead of stepping at the end of it. The Flip face — always drawn as a split-flap board, seam and all — finally flips instead of swapping instantly. (Reduce Motion holds everything still, if that's how you like it.)

The ring itself is also properly sized wherever it shows up now — it used to be tuned for the full phone screen and came out too heavy on a widget, heavier still on a watch complication. Every dimension now scales to the surface it's drawn on; the phone face is unchanged.

Built for accessibility

At the largest accessibility text sizes, the app used to fall apart — readings and buttons truncated to a letter and an ellipsis, and End Tour could get pushed off the bottom of the screen entirely, out of reach. The Clock screen and Dashboard now reflow into a single readable column and scroll at those sizes, so every control stays reachable. Everyday text sizes are unchanged.

VoiceOver now reads every clock face properly — several, including the widget ring and the watch's Flip face, said nothing at all before. With Spanish turned on, VoiceOver reads the faces in Spanish too.

Small things that add up

• A punch the app can't accept — a double-tap on Out to Lunch, End Tour with no tour running — now has its own distinct haptic, so a refused punch no longer feels identical to a successful one
• A failed Face ID check on a punch now tells you what happened instead of just sitting there looking broken
• The sideways swipe-to-change-tabs gesture now only works on the Clocks tab, so it stops competing with Reports charts, swipe-to-delete in Punch History, and scrolling the Timecard
• Two "Both Clocks" layout bugs fixed — a title that could touch the "Standard" label on the Rings face, and a "PM" that could run off the edge on the Flip face

Alarms and hours you can trust

• Alarms no longer turn themselves off before you can stop them — a ringing alarm could clear on its own the moment the app ran a background refresh (opening the app, punching, a new day starting, or a cross-device sync); it now keeps ringing until you stop it
• Alarms no longer disappear from your list on their own — if you use Clock Rings on more than one device, an alarm could vanish when your devices' iCloud sync adopted an out-of-date copy of the list; your alarms now stay put, while changes you make on another device still sync across
• Worked time is no longer under-counted when a tour has two clock-outs — if a tour ended up with a second, later End Tour punch, the app used the earlier one and shorted that tour's hours and pay estimate; it now uses the later clock-out

Try the next update early

Beta builds go out on TestFlight before they reach the App Store — new features first, in exchange for the occasional rough edge.

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For everything else Clock Rings does, see the Clock Rings product page.