Take A Day Off Without Breaking Your Streak

No feature anywhere in the app marks a day as skipped, banks a rest day, or forgives a miss after the fact. There is no setting for it and no hidden gesture that does it.

If you did the habit but forgot to log it, you can correct the past entry. That records what happened rather than excusing a missed goal. To plan a day off, change the schedule ahead of time.

For a build habit, set a weekly target below seven. Each qualifying day must meet its daily target, whether that is one Yes / No check or a Count or Measure goal.

1. Open the habit and tap Edit.
2. Tap Streak Goal.
3. Choose Week and set Completions Per Interval to 5, shown as 5 / Week.
4. Go back to the edit screen and tap Save.

The new goal applies from today. Earlier days keep the goals they had before the change; there is no Past Streaks dialog.

Monthly goals work over a calendar month. A target of 20 / Month means twenty distinct successful days, leaving between eight and eleven days off depending on the month's length.

The current week cannot break the streak while the target is still reachable in the days left. On a Monday-starting week, miss Monday and Tuesday with a 5 / Week goal and five days still fit. Once three days have ended without meeting the daily target, that week's goal is out of reach.

This separate example uses three successful days per week, leaving room for four days off.

For an existing build habit with an unbroken Daily streak, changing Streak Goal to None pauses the count from today. New unlogged days under None do not break that existing run. It does not repair a streak that was already broken, and a brand new habit with None does not start a streak.

For a weekly or monthly goal, complete the current period's target before switching to None. An unfinished week or month can still be judged against its target and break the run.

Two more things to know before you use it:

• Entries during the pause stay saved. When you set a goal again, days you logged during the pause can be added to the continuing streak, so the count may rise when you resume.
• The setting is labelled None, not Pause, and the goal chip reads No Streak Goal. Reminders keep their own schedule; turn them off separately if you do not want them during the break. Quit habits do not offer this setting.

For a habit you want to remove from the overview, use Archive in its menu. Archiving stops reminders and keeps the history, but does not change the streak goal or guarantee that the streak survives the time away. Find it under Settings › Archived Habits; restoring it requires Pro. Permanent deletion is a separate action. See automatic backups and recovery before relying on a backup to recover deleted data.

Less than it feels like, which is worth saying plainly.

• Nothing is deleted. Every completion you logged is still stored, and the grid still fills every tile you earned. A broken streak changes one number, not your history.
• Your best run is not erased. The charts page shows Best Streak next to Current Streak, so the long run you had is still on the record. Charts & Statistics is a Pro feature, and Best Streak there is the best run inside the year you have selected.
• The grid is the better picture anyway. Ten months of dense tiles with a gap in them looks like what it is, which is ten months of a habit. The streak counter cannot show you that.

If the number matters more to you than the record it stands for, two guides are worth ten minutes: a streak is not a consistency score, and what one missed day does to a habit, which is the research on what a single miss actually costs. The short version is less than you fear.