If you’re the type of person who listens to music or a podcast to help you fall asleep, you don’t want to be woken up at 3 a.m. because the song is still playing on a loop. On iPhone, there is a trick to avoid this.
There are dozens of reasons why we have trouble falling asleep when it’s time to go to bed. Stress, consumption of stimulants such as coffee or tea, stimulation by the light of computer or smartphone screens, noisy neighbors… Whatever the cause, you may be one of those who have need’listen to musicA podcast or a video to fall more easily into sleep.
You carefully choose the playlist or show that will accompany you into Morpheus’ arms, adjust the headphones in your ears, find a comfortable position and press play. A few minutes later, you are sound asleep… beforebeing woken up around 4 a.m. because the audio loops, too bad. But it’s over. On iPhonethere is a very simple trick to schedule audio streaming to stop automatically. This works for content streamed from Spotify, Apple Music and even Netflix.
How to enable automatic audio streaming stop to fall asleep to music on iPhone
The procedure to follow, detailed below, follows the path proposed in iOS 17, a version found for example on the recent iPhone 15:
- Open the app Clock of your iPhone.
- Touch Timers.
- Set a duration, based on how long you think it will take to fall asleep.
- Choose the option Ringtones.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and select Stop reading.
- Press on To start up to start the timer.
It’s that simple. If unfortunately you are still not asleep at the end of the countdown, start the procedure again. It will probably take a little time to find the duration that best corresponds to your sleep onset time. And if in the long run you still have trouble getting to sleep, you may need to consider taking it to the next level with a connected rest mask for example.