Add your breaks and holidays

You got the rotation right in August. It stays right until the first long weekend, when your 5:45 goes off on a Monday nobody has school.

Breaks do two jobs at once. They keep your alarms quiet on no-school days, and on a rotating schedule they stop your day types drifting away from your school's. Add them once, at the start of the year, and the calendar takes care of the rest.

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   Open your schedule

   Tap the three-dot menu in the top right of the home screen, then Schedule Settings.

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   Pick the schedule you're using

   Schedule Settings opens your list of schedules first — the one you're on is marked Active. Tap Edit underneath it.

   Breaks belong to a schedule, not to the app. If you keep a separate fall and spring schedule, add each break to the one that's running when it happens.

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   Open Holidays & Breaks

   It's the last row of the settings card. Before you've added anything it reads “Pause alarms on no-school days”; once you have, it counts them back to you.

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   Tap Add break

   The first time through, the screen is empty and explains what breaks are for. The button is at the bottom right.

   “Import from school calendar” is the other way in: hand it your district's PDF and it pulls the dates out for you. That one has its own tutorial.

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   Fill it in

   Give it a name you'll recognise later — “Thanksgiving Break”, “Winter Break”, “Teacher Workday”.

   Set Starts and Ends. Both dates are part of the break, so a Wednesday-to-Friday closure runs Nov 25 to Nov 27. For a single day off, leave both dates the same.

   Then “During the break” decides what your rotation does. Pause is already selected, and it's the common one: break days don't count, and the pattern picks up where it left off.

   Reset and Continue are there for schools that handle it differently — Reset restarts the cycle on the first day back, Continue lets the days advance while staying silent. Which one you want is its own tutorial, linked below.

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   Save, then look at the calendar

   Tap Save. The break lands in the list with its dates and a one-line summary — “Pauses rotation” — of what it does to your cycle.

   Go back to the home screen and page the calendar forward to the break. Those days turn slate grey, and a Holiday key joins the legend underneath.

   This is the bit worth checking. In the shot, Nov 23 is an A-day and Nov 24 a B-day. The break greys out the 25th through the 27th. And the Monday everyone comes back — Nov 30 — is an A-day, because B was the last one that counted. The rotation carried on from exactly where it stopped.

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