The iPhone sleep schedule feature helps users monitor their sleep routine, thus enabling healthy sleeping habits. Visiting a doctor to get advice on your sleep routine may be a tad difficult due to busy schedules. Your iPhone, though not a doctor, is a good health companion as it comes with a number of health features. Here’s a breakdown of the sleep schedule feature on the iPhone and how you can use it effectively.
Setting up a sleep schedule on your iPhone
Although the sleep schedule feature has been an iPhone feature for a while, it remains unused and quite unpopular. Follow this step by step process on how to can easily set up and use the sleep feature on your iPhone. You need to first ensure that your iPhone is running at least iOS 14, any version below this is not supported.
- Open the health app and select browse in the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Find and select sleep on the scroll option menu, to select get started under the setup sleep tab.
- You will be redirected to a page with highlighted text, “your device can help you with your sleep,” now tap next.
- On the next page, set a sleep goal. Click the time selector and select the amount of sleep you want daily, then tap next.
- Now, pick the days you wish to add to your sleep schedule. Choose your sleep and wake-up time, then tap “add” and “next” on the next page.
- Once done with the setup process, sleep mode will automatically kick in at your selected bedtime. You can as well turn it on from the control panel.
Setting up, wind down to prepare you for a good night of sleep
There are a few other added features that make this more fun to use, such as wind down. You can also set up wind down from the sleep schedule settings page. It helps to prepare you sleep a few minutes before your actual bedtime, allowing your mind to settle and put you in a sleepy state.
When I use this feature, I have soft keyboard tracks from my playlist while on the wind down. I’ve noticed that this helps me sleep faster like a baby. To enable this for yourself, add an Apple Music shortcut to your wind downtime. The setup for the wind down feature follows the actual sleep schedule setup. Once all is set, you should be on a page that has the heading “sweet dreams,” now tap done, and you’re good to go!