Watch Bill Crew — Support

It shows your own watches from the skipper’s watch bill: when you are on, whether on the helm or as lookout, and your time off watch, and it sets an alarm before each of your watches. It is free. The skipper plans the watches with Rainbow’s End Watch Bill.

Ask the skipper to open the Share tab in Watch Bill. Tap Scan the skipper’s code, scan the code on their screen, and choose your name. No signal is needed.

Your phone shows its own code under My code. When the skipper scans it, their device records that your phone has this version of the plan and how far ahead your alarms are set. That is how the skipper knows whose phone is up to date.

Yes: scan the practice code below, from this screen or a printout.

Your status first: on watch until when, or off watch until your next and on which post. On watch, it says when you move from lookout to the helm and who comes on. Under it, the version of the plan your phone holds and when you scanned it. Night view, red on black, is one tap at the top.

Scan the new code on the skipper’s screen. Until you do, your phone follows the old version and rings at the old times. Your phone cannot know of a change it has not scanned.

All hands: watches have not started; the skipper begins them when the start or the run out is over, then everyone scans the new code. Watches stopped: the skipper has stood the watches down, for a night at anchor for instance. When they restart, scan the new code.

At the bottom of My watch, tap Leave this voyage, then tap again. The plan and its alarms are removed from your phone.

On iOS 26, yes, once you allow alarms: the wake call is a full-screen alarm with a Stop button. On earlier iOS it is a notification, which Silent and Focus can hide; Alarms on this phone says which yours uses.

Open Alarms on this phone, tap Continue and answer iOS, then tap Test: ring in one minute. Try it with the phone on Silent.

No. Alarms can be silenced, phones go flat, a phone can be left below. The person on watch wakes you in person, by name. That is the standard; this phone is the backup.