The morning
From the ring to the day, in the order it happens.
1. The ring
How the alarm reaches you depends on the phone (Apple's alert on iOS 26, a notification on iOS 17 and 18, a full-screen alarm on Android). That part is on Alarm reliability. Tapping I'm up, Start my morning or the notification opens Wick's wake screen.
2. The wake screen
The alarm time sits at the top, Wick wakes up in the middle (about four seconds of stretching), and the sound keeps going from the wake screen itself until you stop it. If the mission is on, it appears under Wick.
- Snooze, with its length underneath, and "N left" on iOS 17 and 18 when there is a cap.
- I'm up stops the alarm and moves on. While a mission is unsolved it reads Hold, I'm up and needs a 0.6-second hold, which also skips the mission. On iOS 17, 18 and Android an alarm with no mission uses the hold as well, so a half-asleep tap does nothing.
The moment Wick is up, a line shows what getting up paid: +10 xp · +5 dewdrops, just for getting up. If the wake screen is opened more than an hour after the alarm rang, it opens without sound.

3. The routine
If the alarm has a routine, the session opens next: the routine's name and length at the top, Wick doing it in the middle, a ring that fills as time passes, and a line for the mood ("Breathe in… and out" for yoga, "One page at a time" for reading).
- The timer waits for Start; it does not run on its own while you find your mat.
- It follows the clock, so locking the phone does not pause it. Pause does.
- Sound on / off plays the routine's background track. Workout starts with sound; the others start quiet.
- Quit session asks once. Quitting keeps the xp and dewdrops for getting up; only the routine bonus is skipped.

4. The celebration
You showed up. The card counts the morning ("Morning 12 together"), the dewdrops and the new balance, the bond xp, and the level. When a flame colour unlocks or the level goes up, it says so here. Start the day closes it.
The share button renders a picture of your room with the morning count and a line like "I did yoga with Wick this morning." It goes to the normal share sheet; Dawnling itself posts nothing anywhere.

What a morning pays
| What happened | Bond xp | Dewdrops |
|---|---|---|
| Got up (always, mission or not) | 10 | 5 |
| Finished the routine, on top of that | +20 | +10 |
| Quit the routine, or no routine set | 10 | 5 |
| Missed the morning | 0 | 0 |
There is no streak, no multiplier, nothing that resets. A missed morning is worth zero and costs zero. The count that matters, mornings together, only ever goes up.
Wick wakes when you do
Confirming you are up also wakes Wick in the room, whatever the hour. Wick's sleep otherwise follows your bedtime setting; see Wick and the room.
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