Getting a new phone could let you ask you what to do with your old one. The exchange, especially for a credit to your new handset, is ideal and could make a future renovated buyer happy. But if the business value is not worth it for you and you wonder what your retired pocket computer can do, we have some ideas. A suggestion is to transform it into a dedicated awakening. Yes, you can absolutely use your new phone for this purpose – you probably already do it. But there are clear advantages to use your defect device instead. Here’s how to increase your old iPhone in an alarm clock.
What is the point?
Farging a retired gadget in a drawer does nothing – except to make you contemplate without enthusiasm something with each time you open said drawer. Recycling is a valid option, but even if your old handset is not as fast as your new one, it is almost more powerful than any sleeping machine or smart awakening on the market. And with detailed configuration tips here, it can also perform more advanced functions.
In addition, using your current phone when you try to sleep is dangerous. I never got my phone without being distracted. Finally, with booming prices, which makes electronic gadgets more difficult to find at a good price, rethinking what an existing device can do is intelligent alchemy.
First of all, delete everything
Ok, not everything. But the idea is to make your phone as little exciting as possible – no Instagram, no Monument valleyNo photos of photos of the road trip from last year. Your iPhone will not allow you to delete certain applications, such as the phone, messages, the App Store and others – but you can hide them on your home screen so that they only appear if you are looking for them.
You will always need some applications to create your alarm clock, so do not delete or do not mask the following:
Define a personalized alarm tone
If you prefer to wake up with something more pleasant than chirping and beeps of the clock application, choose personalized sound.
1 and 1 Define your health sleep schedule. Apple obliges you to define your sleep schedule in the health application before you can set an alarm in the clock application.
2 Download a song. Theoretically, you can use any song you have downloaded on your phone as a sound for your alarm. But me I couldn’t make it work With any song that supported Dolby Atmos or Lossless Audio (even if I disabled these options in the Settings> Music> Audio).
But standard quality songs worked very well. If, like me, you are not a heavy sleeper, you might like something like singing bowls or a meditative flute. If you need the thunder of the gods to wake up, maybe opt for something more catchy.
3 and 3 Define your alarm. Open the clock app and select the alarm tab. Define your alarm as usual. Then press Sound> Choose a song> downloaded> and select the song (not lost!) You want. Press Save.
4 Disable. If you don’t want your phone to vibrate when he plays your alarm, turn the Haptics option to never play in settings> sounds and haptics.
Make noise (white)
My favorite thing about my sleep machine is the ambient music he plays as I drift in sleep. Unsurprisingly, your old iPhone is also able to play lullabies. And if white noise helps you stay in the land of dreams, you can also schedule your phone to play these sounds. A combination of shortcuts and authorships will make your sleep routine automatically play so that you don’t have to touch your screen at all.
1 and 1 Build a Sleepytime playlist. Open Apple Music and make a playlist. (Unfortunately, shortcuts do not work with Spotify.) I populated the Sleepytime mix of Amy with songs from Apple and pure ambient reading lists. I did the whole for about 30 minutes because it is a little longer than to derive.
2 Disable automatic playback. It is quite shocking when you derive and your dreamy reading list turns into a selected algorithmic part Oontz Oontz petard. To deactivate automatic playback:
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Play any track in Apple Music.
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Press the name of the song to enlarge the album cover and track commands.
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Press the three lines at the bottom right. You will now see tracks to come and three buttons at the top of the list: crossed arrows (shuffle), loop arrows (rehearsal) and an infinite symbol (automatic player).
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Top automatically in place so that it is grayed out.
Note: Disable automatic reading off ALL Your Apple devices. If you like it when Apple keeps the pieces flowing after the end of a reading list, you will have to finish a secondary quest, which is detailed at the end of this post.
3 and 3 Choose your white noise sound. An accessibility function gives you the option of eight different white noise noise, including rain, ocean, fire and night (with more functions to come soon).
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Open the Settings application
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Press accessibility
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Press Audio and Visual
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Press the background sounds
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To switch the background sounds on
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Press your sound then choose your favorite
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Press the back and switch the background sounds
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To switch to use when the media play
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Switch the stop sounds when locked
3 and 3 Create a shortcut. This will make your phone play with your reading list with a white noise below (which softens song transitions) and at the end of the playlist, the white noise continues.
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Open the shortcuts and press all the shortcuts, then type + at the top right
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Look for the term “volume”, press the volume and choose a percentage, such as 25% or the desired level
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Look for “background” background sounds. The shortcut must read: [Turn] [Background Sounds] [On]
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Look for “play” and press Play Music
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Press Music> Library> Playlist> [Your sleepy time mix]. Then press the tiny ⊕ at the top right
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Press the arrow next to the title of shortcut at the top to rename your shortcut, perhaps something like the sleep routine or the night.
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Press Done.
4 Trigger your shortcut with automation. To operate your shortcut, you can just ask Siri by saying “Hey Siri, night at night” (or “Hey Siri, Sleep Routine” or everything you named the shortcut above). But if you want your routine to start at the same time every night, create automation.
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In the shortcut application, press the Automation tab at the bottom
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TAP + to create a new automation
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Press the day of the day and enter your favorite start time and days
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Make sure there is a check mark close to the execution immediately (and do not execute after confirmation) and continue to notify when
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Press Next
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If you do not see the name of the shortcut you created at the top, search for its name and press it
5 Turn off the background sounds. Whether you want your white noise to play to your alarm or simply for an hour or two, it is wise to create automation to turn it off so that you do not have to do it manually.
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Create a new shortcut
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Look for “background”
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Press Set Son sound sound
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Faucet [On] has [Off] So the shortcut reads [Turn] [Background Sounds] [Off]
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Rename the shortcut: the bottom sounds extinct
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Hit
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Create a new automation in the Automation tab
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Day carpet
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Set it for your alarm time or a few hours after you generally slept
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Immediately press the execution and be sure to notify when the execution is changed
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Press finished and choose the shortcut you just made (background sounds)
Stand
Telephones running iOS 17 or more have standby mode, which displays your choice of stylized clock faces when the handset is loaded and oriented horizontally. To activate the day before:
If you put your phone in a stand, it will look a lot like a awakening (and be easier to see from afar). Whether you use a Magsafe wireless support or a basic bas and basic partition, your new alarm clock (old phone AKA) will probably be connected all the time. So you may want to change your battery settings to prevent it from reaching 100%. (Being fully loaded or completely empty is what supports the batteries the most). To do this:
Lateral quantonière: have your sleep playlist stopped without deactivating automatic playback
Some people love it when the algorithm tries to keep the party with related songs after the end of a reading list. But playing random music all night is probably not great for sleeping. The good news is that you can define a timer so that your sleep tunes play for a specified period, so it ends alone without you having to deactivate automatic reading on all your devices.
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Note the duration of your playlist
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Open the clock app and press the Times tab
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Press when the timer ends and scroll down and press stop playing
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Press the game
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Open the shortcuts and modify your night routine by pressing the three points of the shortcut card (the one with your playlist and your background sounds)
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Look for “timer”
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Press Start Timer
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Enter the length of your reading list in the duration field
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Press
Because the background sounds are a parameter and not technically of the media that takes place, your selection of white noise will always play until the automation ends.
