What works, and what doesn't.
Last updated: August 29, 2026
22 Hours is a tool you use several times a day, every day, for months. It should not be the reason any of that is harder than it needs to be.
This page says exactly what works today, and what does not. The second list is the more useful one, so it is not buried at the bottom.
The two platforms are in very different places on this, so each has its own list, jump to On Android below.
On iOS.
What works today
On iPhone
VoiceOver and Voice Control. Every control has a name you can hear and say. That includes the things the app draws rather than writes: the ring on Today announces the hours you have worn against your goal, each day in the calendar announces its date and whether it met the goal, and the charts announce each day or hour individually rather than being one silent picture.
The aligner and goal steppers can be swiped up and down like a standard stepper, and their buttons are also individually named, so either way of working is available.
Timers round to whole minutes when spoken. A value that changed every second would interrupt itself before it finished saying anything.
Where a gesture is the only way to do something, there is a named alternative. Pinching the photo grid to resize it has “Show larger photos” and “Show more photos” as actions.
Reduce Motion. With it on, the ring on Today holds still instead of breathing, and no animation in the app loops on its own.
Dark Interface. A full dark appearance, plus a Light / Dark / System setting inside the app if you would rather not follow the system.
On Apple Watch
VoiceOver. The dial announces what it is showing, as one phrase rather than as loose fragments, in both the wearing and the out-of-mouth states. Put in and Take out are named.
Reduce Motion. With it on, the dial changes state immediately instead of unzipping and re-forming. Nothing is lost, only the movement.
Sufficient Contrast. Every piece of text on the watch meets the WCAG AA ratio of 4.5:1 against its background, including the Put in and Take out button, which is the one you use in daylight.
Dark Interface. watchOS is dark throughout, and so is the app.
What we have not done yet
These are real gaps, not oversights. If one of them is what stands between you and using the app, please tell us, because that changes what we work on next.
- Larger Text. The app does not yet hold together at the largest accessibility text sizes. Some labels clip and some rows overlap. The watch is further behind than the phone here, because its layout is sized to the screen rather than to your text setting. This is the single biggest thing on our list.
- Contrast on iPhone. The watch meets the standard throughout. The phone does not: some secondary text and some filled buttons fall below 4.5:1. The worst of them is white text on the green button that finishes a treatment.
- Colour on its own. Most of the app pairs colour with a shape or a word already. The calendar uses ring length and a hatch pattern, not just colour, and status rows carry an icon and wording. But it is not yet true everywhere, so we do not claim it.
- Watch complications. They announce their number without enough surrounding context. The app itself is in much better shape than its complications are.
On Android.
What works today
Dark Interface. A full dark appearance, plus a Light / Dark / System setting inside the app if you would rather not follow the system, the same as on iPhone.
That is the list. The pass the iPhone and the watch went through has not happened on Android yet, so the section below it is the longer of the two. That is the honest shape of it rather than a way of putting it.
What we have not done yet
The same invitation stands here, and more so. If one of these is what keeps you from using the app, tell us, because it moves things up the list.
- TalkBack. The controls are named, so the app can be driven: back, add a session, delete, the steppers, the photo actions. What is missing is everything the app draws. The ring on Today, the calendar, the wear chart, all of them are pictures with numbers on them and there is nothing for TalkBack to read out. On iPhone that gap is closed. Here it is not.
- Reduce Motion. The setting is not read at all, so animations play whichever way you have set it.
- Larger Text. Not checked at the larger text sizes, so we cannot tell you what holds and what breaks. Assume the same clipping the iPhone has.
- Contrast. The palette is the iPhone's, ported value for value, so the pairs that fall below 4.5:1 there fall below it here too.
Not applicable
22 Hours has no video or audio content on either platform, so captions and audio descriptions do not apply to it.
Tell us what is not working
If something here is wrong, or something we claim does not actually hold on your device, we would genuinely rather know. Accessibility reports go to the front of the queue.
Email help@gazewing.com. It reaches a person, not a form. Telling us your device, your iOS, watchOS or Android version, and which accessibility features you have turned on helps us reproduce it, but do not let a missing detail stop you from writing.