Related: How To Block Spam Calls On iPhone & Stop Unwanted Callers
Starting in iOS 14, Apple upgraded the alarm experience to help users follow set bedtimes and get enough sleep each night. It can show the current time in different parts of the world, begin a stopwatch, start a timer, and - of course - create an alarm to help someone wake up in the morning. That may seem like an odd number at first, but there's actually a legit reason why Apple picked that number specifically.Īlthough it may be one of the simplest apps available for the iPhone, the Clock application is also incredibly useful. Snoozing an iPhone alarm silences it for exactly 9 minutes before it starts ringing again. If you need an advanced alarm clock, I recommend this one as, unlike many alarm apps this one involves some real physicality, which is helpful if you’re a heavy sleeper.Setting an alarm on Apple's iPhone is one of the most basics tasks someone can do - but it also comes with an interesting quirk. Wake will normally cost $3, but is currently in the iTunes app ( download) store for $2 to celebrate its launch. Personally, I need the shake-to-wake mode! It’s up to you whether you think you have the memory or coordination to do that when you first wake up in the morning. The final option is “Swipe” – this option require a little more of your faculties when initially wake up as swiping up will put the alarm into snooze mode and swiping down will disable the alarm. By the time you’re done shaking the phone, you’re well and truly awake! Then screen is filled by a light-blue colour as you shake the phone, indicating how much further you have to go to disable the alarm. You can set the level of shaking in the options screen. The second method is “Shake to wake” – here there’s no snooze method, you have to shake, and shake, and shake the phone until the alarm stops. To turn the alarm off altogether, turn the iPhone over on its face – this employs the phone’s accelerometer to note which way up it is. The first option, is the “Slap and flip” mode, where (in your presumably sleepy haze) slap the iPhone’s screen for it to snooze for ten minutes (or whatever you chose on the settings screen). If you go to the homescreen or switch to another app, Wake will pop up a notification reminding you that it must be running in the foreground.Ī swipe to the leave reveals the app’s settings, which in turn reveal its three ingenious wake and snooze options. As indicated above, you have to leave this app running over night for it to work. Swipe to right and you’ll but the app into “Night Mode”, which is a dimmed screen mode, for when you leave the app running over night. What the user interface doesn’t indicate is that there are sideways gestures. Wake can only function while in the foreground, and so having a reminder come from the background isn’t going to happen with this app – you’ll need to stick with the built-in Clock app for that.
However, this isn’t a practical option for Wake as it is constrained by the limitation of iOS. My first reaction at the multiple alarms is that I wanted to be able to set titles for them. Also, tapping on any alarm lets you edit it, including changing the chime (from a choice of four) and setting which days of the week the alarm should recur on). A long press on any will reveal cross marks that let you delete the alarms. You can set multiple alarms too – to review them simply swipe downwards, and they’ll all appear (in different colours) at the top of the screen. There is a tick and cross at the top of the screen to accept or reject the alarm time. Similarly, you can correct by running your finger around the clock anti-clockwise. Sure enough as soon as you start running your finger over the circular perimeter in a clockwise direction, the time will start advancing to when the alarm will chime. Fortunately, there are short text hints at how to use the application, such as “Spin the dial to set an alarm”. The main interface consists of a clock surrounded by a coloured circle. Wake’s user interface is almost unnervingly simplistic. This is a new app for the iPhone which brings an intelligent design, both aesthetically, and dynamically to the humble alarm clock genre. However, you might want to consider an app called Wake. Whether you’re a heavy sleeper or are just bored of the standard iOS apps, you may well be looking for a new alarm clock, of which there are many upon many in the iTunes store.
0 kommentar(er)
