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Cupertinoo Clock

The iPhone widget that tells you if it’s AM or PM
iPhone · iOS 17+ Lock & Home Screen widgets In TestFlight

Apple’s clock hasn’t shown AM or PM in ten years. So we made it.

The iPhone Lock Screen says 9:41. Morning or night? There’s no setting for it, and you can’t replace Apple’s clock. Cupertinoo Clock adds widgets that always show AM or PM, big, including a Lock Screen widget sized to sit right under Apple’s clock so the two read as one: 9:41 PM.

BeforeLock Screen showing only 9:41
9:41… morning or night?
AfterLock Screen with a PM widget under the clock
Fixed: the PM widget sits right under the clock
Small Home Screen widget
Small
Medium Home Screen widget
Medium
Large Home Screen widget
Large

The Lock Screens above are illustrations; the widgets are rendered from the real widget code.

Lock Screen widgetsJust AM or PM, nothing else

Just AM or PM, nothing else

The Lock Screen AM/PM widgets, wide and round
  • AM / PM widget: shows only “AM” or “PM,” as large as the slot allows, to finish what Apple’s clock started
  • Blank Space widget: an invisible spacer for the left half of the row, so AM/PM sits on the right, nearer the end of the time
  • A small round version and an inline version for the slot above the clock
Home Screen widgetsAM/PM at the same size as the numbers

AM/PM at the same size as the numbers

Three sizes

  • Small, medium and large, each with the full time and AM/PM, not tucked away in tiny print

Day and date

  • Shown across the top of every Home Screen widget

Always 12-hour

  • Even if the phone is set to 24-hour time

Light on the battery

  • Updates every minute on its own schedule; the app doesn’t need to stay open
Make it yours11 colors and three number styles, per widget

11 colors and three number styles, per widget

Four color combinations, one hollow
Pick the time color and the AM/PM color separately
Hollow number style
Hollow style, like the dimmed Lock Screen clock

Number styles

  • Solid bold numbers, Hollow outlines, or Hollow at Night: solid by day, outlined from 9 PM to 7 AM

Every widget its own

  • Hold any widget and tap Edit Widget; a small white one and a large neon one can live side by side
How it’s builtSwiftUI, WidgetKit and hand-traced hollow letters

SwiftUI, WidgetKit and hand-traced hollow letters

The Cupertinoo app's setup screen

WidgetKit timelines

One entry per minute, three hours at a time, refreshed by iOS on its own.

App Intents

Colors and style are real per-widget settings in Apple’s Edit Widget panel.

Custom hollow lettering

SwiftUI can’t outline text, so the hollow style traces the font’s glyphs with Core Text and strokes them.

One shared design

The app and widgets draw from the same view code, so previews match the Home Screen.

Status: in TestFlight beta, shipped with automated App Store Connect signing and upload.

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