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Yes. In Settings, under Display, turn on Black & White for a black board with only white chalk. It also turns on by itself when Increase Contrast is on in your iPhone's Settings › Accessibility › Display & Text Size.

A few. Settings › About › Easter Eggs shows how many you've found, with a gentle hint for each of the rest. When one is being drawn, tap once to finish it right away, and tap again to erase it. Each easter egg you find in Pax unlocks its chalk sticker in Messages (with Pax Complete). Found eggs are remembered on your iPhone only. They move to a new iPhone with its backup, or with a copy saved in Settings › Your Data.

If you use Sync with iCloud (Settings › Your Data), sign in with the same Apple Account on the new device and turn sync on there; your favorites, reflections and journal come back from your own iCloud. Without sync, yes, if you set up the new iPhone from a backup of the old one (iCloud, a computer, or Quick Start with the two phones side by side): your favorites, reflections, journal and easter eggs come with it. If you set it up as new, first open Pax on the old iPhone, go to Settings › Your Data › Save a Copy, and save the file somewhere you can reach from the new phone (Files, AirDrop or email to yourself). Then in Pax on the new iPhone, go to Settings › Your Data › Open a Copy and choose that file. Opening a copy only adds to what’s already there. Your purchases come back with Restore Purchases.

On Android? If you use Sync with Google Drive (Settings › Your Data), sign in on the new phone and turn it on there. Android can also restore Pax’s favorites and journal from your Google backup when you set up a new phone. Without either, on the old phone open Settings › Your Data › Save a Copy and send the file somewhere you can reach from the new phone (Quick Share, Drive or email to yourself). Then in Pax on the new phone, Settings › Your Data › Open a Copy. A copy from an iPhone opens on Android too, and the other way round, though handwriting stays on the phone it was written on. Your purchases come back with Restore Purchases.

Yes. Pax is on Google Play for Android phones, with a companion for Wear OS watches. It keeps the same promise as on iPhone: no account, no ads, no tracking. Sync on Android uses your own Google Drive; on iPhone and iPad it uses iCloud, so the two don’t sync with each other. Use Save a Copy to move between them.

Yes. Pax is one app for iPhone and iPad. Turn an iPad sideways for two pages side by side, or hold it upright for one column. With Sync with iCloud on (Settings › Your Data), your favorites, reflections and journal appear on your other iPhones and iPads, and Handoff passes what you have open to your other device. Both use only your own iCloud and Apple Account; we never see them.

Open Pax, tap the settings button in the top corner, and choose Restore Purchases under Pax Complete. Make sure you're signed in with the same Apple Account you bought it with.

Yes. Pax Complete works with Family Sharing. If purchase sharing is turned on for your family group, everyone in it can unlock Pax Complete by tapping Restore Purchases.

No. It's a single purchase that unlocks every current section and every section added later, including seasons like Advent.

During Advent, an Advent section appears on the home board: Waiting in Hope, Prepare the Way, With Mary, and Come, Lord Jesus. It comes with Pax Complete, or you can unlock Advent on its own. Restore Purchases brings it back on a new iPhone.

Refunds are handled by Apple. Visit reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, and choose Pax Complete.

Tap the little cross hanging below the Daily Triad card on the home board. Pax opens the Rosary with the day's mysteries: the Joyful on Monday and Saturday, the Sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, the Glorious on Wednesday and Sunday, and the Luminous on Thursday. Tap Next (or the prayer) to move from bead to bead, and choose other mysteries from the menu at the top left. From 3 to 4 in the afternoon, the Hour of Mercy, the same beads pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. If you stop partway, Pax picks up at the same bead until midnight. The Rosary is free for everyone.

Tap Home or the back button at the top left, or swipe in from the left edge of the screen to go up one level: from a topic to its board, or from a board to the home board. When you go back, or open the same topic again later, Pax returns you to where you were in the list.

From the First Sunday of Advent until Christmas Eve, Advent appears at the top of the home board. The rest of the year you'll find it in Settings under Seasons. It's included with Pax Complete, or you can buy it on its own.

Touch and hold an empty spot on your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for Pax. Choose the daily question, the Daily Triad, or (with Pax Complete) a section. Tap the heart beside any quote on the Daily Triad widget to save it to your favorites without opening Pax.

For the Lock Screen, touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, and add Pax there: Today's Verse, the Daily Triad, the daily question, or One Mood, a small circle that opens the quotes for a mood you often feel. Touch and hold One Mood after adding it to choose the mood.

Yes. Say "Show today's Daily Triad in Pax," "Pray the Rosary in Pax," or "I'm feeling anxious in Pax" (or any of the moods). You'll find the same shortcuts in the Shortcuts app and in Spotlight, and you can put one on the Action Button.

For Control Center, open it, tap +, then Add a Control, and find Pax. Daily Triad opens today's triad and How Is Your Soul? opens the moods. Either can also replace a button at the bottom of your Lock Screen.

It appears the first time you open Pax each day. To stop it, open Settings in Pax and turn off Show When I Open Pax under Daily Triad. You can always find the triad on the home board.

Tap the heart in the top corner of the home board. Your newest favorites come first. Once you've saved eight or more, they're gathered under where you saved them, such as the Daily Triad, Anxious or Grief, so you can return to the words that helped the last time you felt that way.

Widgets fill in after Pax has been opened once, so open the app and the widget will update shortly.

In Pax, open Settings and check that Daily Reminder is on and the time is right. Then check the iPhone Settings app under Notifications › Pax to make sure notifications are allowed, and that a Focus mode isn't holding them back.

Personal reflections are written on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence, which needs a supported iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on. Without it, Pax shows a prewritten reflection. You can switch automatic reflections on or off in Pax's Settings.

With Pax Complete, yes. Open any section and tap Make this my home board, or choose it in Settings under Home Board. On the Temperaments board, tap Which one is you? to choose your temperament and give it a shortcut on your home board.

Yes. Most people are a blend. After choosing your main temperament, Pax asks whether a second one also fits, and your list mixes in its quotes too. If you're not sure of either, the Which one is you? page links to the free Temperament Quiz by Art and Laraine Bennett, authors of The Temperament God Gave You.

In Settings, under Tailor Your Wisdom, turn voices on or off, such as Scripture, saints, the Catechism, clergy, consecrated life, Christian authors and Catholic athletes. Your favorites always show.

From Scripture (Douay-Rheims), the Baltimore Catechism, the writings of the saints and popes, and the homilies and books of trusted priests and Catholic writers. Every quote is matched word for word against a source you can check, and the source appears with each quote.

Please tell us! Open the quote and tap Report an issue with this quote (or press and hold a quote card and choose Report an Issue). Pax fills in an email with the quote and its source for you to send. You can also write to [email protected]. We take accuracy seriously and will correct or remove it in the next update.

Use Report an Issue on the quote and choose I hold the rights to this quote, or email [email protected]. Please tell us your name, how you're connected to the work (author, estate or publisher), and which quotes you mean. To protect authors from impostors, we confirm requests through a publisher, parish, diocese or other official contact before acting. Once confirmed, we remove or re-credit the quotes in the next update.