Soultime · User-contributed screenshot · resized, content unchanged

Friends nudged automatically, switched on

“Soultime with Friends Settings” explains: “For many of us reaching out is one of the hardest parts. Soultime with Friends discretely nudges your friends automatically when we think you might need a call.” An “Automatic notifications” switch is on, with the note “Select ‘off’ if you would like us to ask you each time before we send your friends a notification.”

Friends nudged automatically, switched on
Soultime · interface and imagery remain the rights holders’ property. User-contributed screenshot · resized, content unchanged.

Design takeaway

Reaching out is hard, and the app tries to help. But an inference about someone’s mood, sent to friends by default, is a disclosure they did not make. Ask each time by default, and say what the friends are told.

What this example establishes

“Soultime with Friends Settings” explains: “For many of us reaching out is one of the hardest parts. Soultime with Friends discretely nudges your friends automatically when we think you might need a call.” An “Automatic notifications” switch is on, with the note “Select ‘off’ if you would like us to ask you each time before we send your friends a notification.”

Limits and further verification

A still image shows one interface state. Gestures, timing, accessibility, persistence and what happens next were not tested. App version not recorded.

Provenance

Platform
iOS app · device model not recorded
Image origin
User-contributed screenshot · resized, content unchanged
Source or capture date
Captured 28 August 2025 · from embedded image metadata
Reviewed
6 October 2026
Version
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Screenshot captured by Tobias Treppmann for his app-pattern research and supplied for this design reference. Resized for the web; content unchanged. Interface, imagery and Scripture text remain the property of their respective rights holders.

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From a request kept between someone and God, through one listener they choose, a few friends and a group with a leader, to the whole church and a public wall, with a board ranked by prayer streaks as a warning case: decide who hears a request, what each listener can and must do with it, and what comes back.

Research-informed design proposal · draft for review