Settings

Movement targets

Movement targets are how long each phase lasts — how long you sit, stand, and move before the next change. They're set per Room, so each place can have its own rhythm. Start with what feels sustainable rather than ambitious; you can adjust them any day.

Notifications and quiet hours

DeskRhythm prompts you at each transition with a quiet notification. Quiet hours let you mark the parts of the day when you don't want prompts — a standing meeting, an early start, the end of the workday — and the rhythm holds its prompts until you're past them.

Lock-screen actions

From the lock screen, you can act on a prompt without opening the app — change posture or start moving straight from the notification. It's there for the moments when reaching into the app would break your focus more than the movement would.

Walking pad

If you use a walking pad, you can turn it on for a Room and tell DeskRhythm how fast you walk, so it can offer a walking-pad session at the right moments and estimate your steps. A session is always a choice — accept it when the next stretch of work suits walking, decline it when it doesn't.

Auto-pause

Auto-pause steps back when you do. If you step away or your day goes quiet, DeskRhythm can pause the rhythm rather than prompt an empty desk, and pick up when you return. It keeps the prompts honest — they arrive when you're actually working.

Apple Health

If you walk on a pad, DeskRhythm can write those steps to Apple Health — no Apple Watch needed. The steps are a calibrated estimate, not a sensor reading.

Getting that estimate close, and keeping your Health data clean if you already track steps another way, has its own page: Walking-pad steps in Apple Health.