How to turn your old iPhone into alarm clock

Getting a new phone may be thinking of what to do with your old. TradingEspecially for credit toward your new handset, flexible and can do the future A renewed shopkeeper Happy. If the trade-in value is not worth you and you are thinking of what your retired pocket computer can do, we have some ideas. One advice is to turn it into a special alarm clock. Yes, you can definitely use your new phone for that purpose – you already do that. But instead of using your decoctioned device has obvious advantages. Here’s how to raise your old iPhone into the alarm clock.

What is the point?

Filling a retired gadget in the drawer will do nothing-unless you think of doing anything with the drawer every time you open it. Recycling A valid option, but even if your old handset is not yours fast, it is almost more powerful than any sleep machine or smart alarm clock in the market. And with the setup tips described here, it can actually do more sophisticated functions.

In addition, it is dangerous to use your current phone when you are trying to sleep. I never took my phone without being distracted. Finally, on-agine, off-agine tariffs make electronic gadgets difficult to come for a better price, rethinking what the existing device can do.

First, remove everything

Ok, not everything. But there is an idea to overly your phone as much as possible – no Instagram, no Monument ValleyThere were no photos memories from the last year’s road trip. Your iPhone phone, messages, app store and others do not allow you to remove some apps – but they can only pop up if you search for them so you can hide them from your home screen.

You still need some apps to create your alarm clock, so do not remove or hide the following:

Set personalized alarm tone

If you want to wake up to the chips of the clock app and the snow more than the snow, choose a personalized sound instead.

1. Set your sleep schedule healthy. Apple will need to set your sleep schedule in the health app before you set the alarm in the clock app.

2. Download the song. Theoretically, you can use any song that you downloaded to your phone as a sound for your alarm. But I am It was unable to work With any song that supports Dolby Atmos or Losless Audio (even though I have stopped in the Settings> Music> Audio).

But the standard quality songs worked great. Like me, if you are not a huge sleeper, you can like something like that Cowls bowls Or a Meditation flute. If you need the thunder of gods to wake you up, maybe go for something More exciting.

3. Set your alarm. Open the clock app and select the alarms tab. Set your alarm as always. Then select Sound> a song> download> and select the song you wish (non -laseless!). Save Save.

4. Turn off the vibrate. If your phone does not want to vibrate when playing your alarm, rotate the Haptics option to always play in Settings> Sounds & Haptics.

Make some (white) noise

My favorite thing about my sleep machine is that it is the surrounding music that I play when I go asleep. Surprisingly, you can also play your old iPhone tunes. If white noise helps you stay in the dreamland, you can program your phone to play those sounds. The combination of shortcuts and automations automatically plays your sleeping daily so you don’t have to touch your screen at all.

1. Build a sleeptime playlist. Open Apple music and make a playlist. . The surrounding cold And and Pure surrounding Playlists. I made the set a 30 -minute long, because it would take some time to leave me.

2. Turn off autoplay. It is very Georging when you choose some algorithm of playlist marks when you are drifting and your dreams Otz Otz Banger. To turn off autoplay:

• Play any track in Apple music.

• Tap the song name to extend the album cover and track controls.

• Press the three lines on the bottom right. You now see the upcoming tracks and three buttons on the list: crossed arrows (shuffle), looped arrows (repeat) and infinite symbol (autoplay).

• Toggle the autoplay, so it is gray.

Note: Autoplay turns off it All Your Apple devices. If you like the flowing Apple tunes after the end of the playlist, you should complete the side quest, which is described at the end of this post.

3. Choose your white noise sound. Access characteristic gives you a choice of eight different white sound sounds including rain, sea, fire and night (with more functions Come soon).

• Open the Setting App

• Press access

• Press Audio & Visual

• Press background sounds

• Toggle the background

• Tap the sound, and then choose your favorite

• Tap back and toggle background sound

• Toggle in use while playing the media

• Toggle stop sounds when locked

3. Create the shortcut. It will play your phone with your playlist with a white sound under it (which will soften the transitions of the song) and when the playlist is over, the white noise continues.

• Open the shortcuts and tap all the shortcuts, and then press + on the top right to the top

• Search for the word “volume”, press the set volume and select a percentage of 25 percent or a level as you want

• Search for “background”, press set background sounds. Shortcut should read: (turn) (background sounds) (on)

• Search for “Play” and press Play Music

• Press Music> Library> Playlist> (Your Sleepy Time Mix). Then press the small TA on the upper right side

• Tap the arrow next to the shortcut’s headline on the top to change your shortcut, perhaps like a sleep routine or nightnight.

• The tap is complete.

4. Stimulate your shortcut with automation. To drive your shortcut, you can ask Siri by saying “Hey Siri, Night Night” (or “Hey Siri, Sleep Routine” or you name the shortcut above). If you want to start your daily routine every night, create automation.

• In shortcut app, press the automation tab at the bottom

• Tap to create a new automation +

• Tap the day of the day and enter your favorite start time and day

• Make sure there is a checkmark near the run (and do not run after confirmation) and keep the notified when the run toggle

• Press the next

• If you do not see the shortcut name created at the top, search for its name and tap on it

5. Turn off background sounds. You want to play all the ways to your alarm or for an hour or two hours, it is advisable to create automation to turn it off, so you don’t need to do it manually.

• Create a new shortcut

• Search for “background”

• Press set background sound

• Press (on) from (off) so shortcut reads (turn) (background noises) (off)

• Change the name to the shortcut: the background sounds

• The hit is complete

• Create a new automation on the automation tab

• Press the day of the day

• Set it for your alarm time or two hours after you usually sleep

• Tap the run immediately and make sure that the run is notified when the toggle

• Done and select the shortcut you have done now (the background sounds)

Put it up

The phones running iOS 17 or later have a standby mode, which displays the choice of your stylistic clock faces when it depends on the handset charging and horizontally. To start the standby:

If you put your phone in the stand, it looks like alarm clock (and easy to see from a distance). If you are using the Magsef Wireless Stand or the basic stand-and-card combo, your new alarm clock (old phone) can be plugged all the time. So you may want to change your battery settings from reaching 100 %. (To be fully charged or completely empty makes the batteries more). To do so:

Side Quest: Stop your Sleep Playlist without turning off autoplay

Some people prefer this when the algorithm party tries to continue with the relevant songs after the playlist is over. But, playing random music overnight is not great for sleep. The good news is that you can set the timer to play your sleep tunes for a certain period of time, so you can end itself without stopping the autoplay on all of your devices.

• Note the length of your playlist

• Open the Clock app and press the Timers tab

• Tap when the timer is over and scroll down and press playing

• Set set

• Open the shortcuts and edit your night’s day’s day by pressing three dots on the shortcut card (one with your playlist and background sounds)

• Search for “Timer”

• Press the Start Timer

• Enter the length of your playlist in the duration field

• The tap is complete

Since the background sounds are not a setting and technically playing media, your white noise plays up to automation until the selection is over.