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Everything about drinking enough water without being nagged for it: setting a goal that fits you, reminders that arrive at the right moment, the cats and trees that grow as the days add up, and what happens to your data.

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How to set a water reminder on your iPhone

Pick cats or trees, set the hours you are awake, check the suggested goal and log a first glass — and your iPhone starts nudging you, but only when you are behind.

Set your daily water goal

Keep the suggestion Sippy works out from your own details, or set your own number — and see which of the two a day was judged against afterwards.

Log a glass of water in one tap

The four cup buttons on the Today screen, the custom amount, the drink picker, and undoing a tap you did not mean.

Cats or trees: pick what you are looking after

A cat farm or a little forest, the drawing style your cats are born in, their names and personalities — and how to switch themes without losing a thing.

What the app does, and what it deliberately does not

A plain list of what the app is for — reminders, logging and a record — and of the things it will not do: diagnose, advise, or send your data anywhere.

Water reminders are not showing up

Why a reminder did not arrive — permission, Focus, Scheduled Summary, quiet hours, a goal already met — and how to check each one in order.

When reminders arrive, and when they stay quiet

The whole rule: a nudge when you wake up, one before each meal, pace check-ins only when you are behind, and silence once you are done.

Gentle or Normal: how often you are reminded

Two levels — about four reminders a day or about seven — plus the extra reminder, the meal reminders, and how to turn the lot off.

Log water straight from the notification

Two buttons on every reminder record a drink without unlocking the phone — where they come from, how to change them, and what happens afterwards.

Why reminders stop before bed

The last two hours before your bedtime are deliberately silent, and the day can roll over after midnight if that is when you sleep.

How your daily water goal is worked out

The suggested goal, factor by factor: the EFSA baseline, then activity, heat, pregnancy, breastfeeding and weight — with the sources it is built on.

Hot days and workouts raise today's goal

Tap “Hot day” or log the minutes you trained, and Sippy adds water for the sweat — for today only, and never more than a litre.

Do tea, coffee, milk and soup count?

All six drinks in Sippy count in full toward the goal, and here is the evidence for that — plus the one drink that is deliberately missing.

Can you drink too much water?

Yes — and Sippy says so. What the “slow down” card means, the two thresholds behind it, and why spreading drinks out beats catching up at night.

Change the cup sizes on the home screen

The four quick-log buttons are yours to set — and the two smallest also become the buttons on every reminder.

How a new cat or tree is born

Thirty goal days — in total, not in a row — and a new companion arrives. How they grow from newborn to adult, and why they never die.

Gifts, accessories and the sticker book

A gift after every goal day, an accessory every fifth gift, and stickers once the wardrobe is complete — plus how to dress a cat in four things at once.

Farm decorations and festive days

Ten decorations that unlock as your goal days add up — the first after a week — and the three celebrations that change the whole farm.

Sippy PRO: what it unlocks

An optional subscription that unlocks the whole wardrobe at once, your full history and the weekly tips. Reminders, logging and every hydration feature stay free.

How water streaks work

Half your goal keeps the streak alive, the full goal earns the day — why the bar is deliberately lower than the goal, and what breaks a run.

Streak freezes and rest days

A freeze every seven streak days covers a day you miss. A rest day is one you plan. Here is how each is earned, held and spent.

The weekly challenge

Five goal days in a week, one reward to claim — an accessory while the wardrobe is filling, then a streak freeze, then a rest day.

Build a water habit that actually lasts

What the research says about habits — anchors, visible cues, and forgiving a missed day — and how to set Sippy up to follow it.

Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets

Four widget sizes, two of them with log buttons that work in place — how to add them and which one to pick.

Log water from Control Center or the Action button

Put “Log a glass of water” in Control Center, or on the Action button, and a glass is one press away from anywhere.

Log water with Siri and Shortcuts

“Log water in Sippy” works out of the box, and the same action can be dropped into any automation you like.

The Apple Watch app

Today's progress and one-tap logging on your wrist, complications for every watch face, and how it stays in step with the iPhone.

Sync your water with Apple Health

Turn it on and Sippy writes dietary water to Health and reads back what you logged elsewhere — nothing more, and nothing leaves the device.

Progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island

On a hot day or after a workout, Sippy can put today's progress — with log buttons — on the Lock Screen for up to six hours.

Where your drinking data is kept

On your iPhone, in the app's own storage. No account, no server, no iCloud, no ads, no analytics inside the app.

Back up, and move to a new iPhone

Because nothing is in the cloud, moving your history is a file you make and keep. How to make it, where to put it, and what restoring replaces.

Travel, time zones and late nights

Why your history does not shuffle when you fly, when the day actually rolls over, and what happens to reminders in a new time zone.

Fix or delete a drink you logged

Undo a tap, correct an amount in Today’s log, move a drink to the time it really happened, or delete one that was never drunk — and what each does to your day.