Have you ever heard of the Apple Watch’s nightstand mode? I knew about it from digging via the settings within the Watch app on my iPhone, however I by no means tried it out. I put on my watch whereas sleeping, principally so I get a pleasant haptic alarm within the morning as a substitute of an audible iPhone alarm. However for those who cost your watch in a single day, you need to virtually actually be utilizing nightstand mode, previously generally known as bedside mode.
Find out how to use Apple Watch nightstand mode
In case you don’t use your Apple Watch’s sleep-tracking options to maintain tabs in your slumber, you should utilize nightstand mode to show the machine right into a bedside clock. When your watch is charging in your bedside desk with its display screen going through you horizontally, as proven within the picture beneath, it’ll present the present time, full-screen. It additionally reveals the date and an icon depicting the present cost degree. In case you have an alarm set, it’ll present the time that may go off, too.
It appears like this:
Photograph: Apple
The Apple Watch show will change off till you contact the watch or faucet the floor it’s sitting on. Mine lights up once I make a transfer towards it — that’s how delicate the Apple Watch’s movement detection is.
Snooze your Apple Watch alarms
Photograph: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac
When the alarm time approaches, the Apple Watch display screen will gentle up, getting brighter because the goal time approaches. Then, a chilled alarm will sound. You’ll be able to then select to snooze or dismiss the alarm, utilizing the Digital Crown or the facet button respectively. As these each seem on the highest of an Apple Watch in nightstand mode, it’s straightforward.
In case you snooze the Apple Watch alarm, you get a brand new countdown in amber, beneath the inexperienced time readout, together with a Zzz icon in blue. (You’ll be able to see this view on the high of this publish.)
Nightstand mode alarms solely work for those who set them utilizing the watch’s personal Alarms app. The wonderful function the place the watch takes over iPhone alarms, and alerts you with a haptic faucet as a substitute of the audio alarm, is just obtainable if you find yourself sporting the watch. This consists of the iPhone’s Bedtime function. Briefly, if you wish to use the Apple Watch’s alarm when it’s in nightstand mode, you need to set that alarm on the watch itself. You’ll be able to in fact do that utilizing Siri.
Find out how to allow Apple Watch nightstand mode
Screenshot: Cult of Mac
Nightstand mode is a good Apple Watch function, and I would even change to utilizing it over sporting the watch in mattress. To allow nightstand mode, beforehand generally known as bedside mode as proven within the screenshot above, simply head to the Settings part of both the watch itself or the iPhone Watch app. You’ll discover it within the Normal part. Candy goals!
We initially printed this how-to on utilizing Apple Watch’s nightstand mode on March 12, 2020. We up to date the knowledge.