Siri And Shortcuts
These can all be done by voice, without opening the app.
- “What's my meditation in Prayer Mentions”
- Siri reads your current meditation back to you. The app stays closed.
- “Set my Prayer Mentions meditation”
- Siri asks what you'd like it to be and saves it. The widget updates straight away.
- “Who am I praying for in Prayer Mentions”
- Siri names the people on today's list. No counts, and nothing about what's left.
- “Add someone to my Prayer Mentions list”
- Siri asks for a name and adds them. They appear next time you open the app.
- “Add a Prayer Mentions request”
- Siri asks what you'd like to pray about. It appears next time you open the app.
- “What am I praying about in Prayer Mentions”
- Siri names the prayer requests active today. No counts, and nothing about what's left.
- “Add a Prayer Mentions request for someone”
- Siri asks what to pray about and who it's for, then adds it. It appears next time you open the app.
- “Open my Prayer Mentions list”
- Opens the app on the Today tab.
"Prayer" works as well as "Prayer Mentions" — the icon shows the short name, and Siri accepts either. "Fervent Word" works too.
They all appear in the Shortcuts app too, where you can build them into your own routines or put one on the Home Screen.
Things Added By Voice Arrive When You Open The App
A person or prayer request added through Siri is held safely until the next time Prayer Mentions is opened, then added to your list. Nothing is lost in the meantime — it simply isn't visible yet.
A meditation set by Siri is different: the widget updates immediately.
The Widget
- Home Screen, Small And Medium
- Your current meditation on a purple card. The medium size fits more of a longer one.
- Lock Screen And StandBy
- A rectangular version with a heading and a few lines, and an inline version that sits beside the clock.
The widget keeps itself current, and in the revisit modes it works out the next day's meditation on its own — so it changes over at midnight whether or not you've opened the app.
Sharing Into The App
Select text anywhere — Messages, Safari, Notes, a Bible app — and share it to Prayer Mentions. You choose whether it becomes your meditation or a new prayer request, and you can edit it before it's saved. A web link can be shared the same way.
Sharing a meditation replaces your current one and updates the widget right away. A shared prayer request joins your list next time you open the app, however long that takes.
Meditations From FerventWord
FerventWord is our Bible reading app, coming soon. When it arrives, you'll be able to select a passage while you're reading and send it over as your meditation.
A passage sent that way becomes your current meditation the next time you open Prayer Mentions — on the widget, and in your meditation reminders — and Today says so for a few seconds when it arrives. Whatever you were meditating on before is kept: it's still in your Meditations tab, and you can make it current again whenever you like.
Nothing will happen without you sending it, nothing leaves your device, and neither app can see anything else about the other.
Control Center And The Action Button
Prayer Mentions offers a control that opens your list. You can add it to Control Center, put it on the Lock Screen, or assign it to the Action button.
It only opens the app. Like everything else here, it never records anything on your behalf.
Spotlight
The names on your prayer list are searchable from the Home Screen — pull down, type a name, and tap to open their page.
Only names are indexed. Your prayer notes and your meditations are never given to Spotlight, because that index is shared with the rest of the system.