I just plug it in and set it on my nightstand. Unless it rings none of the other tones (SMS, email, etc) wake me up. And I like to be able to get up in the morning and check my email before I get out of bed (so I can find out if class is cancelled and avoid getting out of bed at all).
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Do you turn your iphone off at night?
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Mine is on 24/7 for work. Don't want to miss the overtime train! She doesn't come calling all the time. I also use the alarm clock to wake up. I miss the profiles from my old Blackberries. I used to be able to set to Phone Only profile so all my other alerts were silenced. I have to do this manually to ensure that the phone ring is the only noise I hear at 3:30AM.
Anyone know of a third party app to do this for me?
Thanks!
Anyone know of a third party app to do this for me?
Thanks!
I turn it off every morning after it's been on the charger all night for about 20 minutes while I get ready. Seems to hold a charge a little better after sitting on the charger while off for a while. Maybe useless, but it's a habit from android phones with bad battery life.
Nope. Unfortunately, people decide to call me in the middle of the night so my phone has to be turned on 24/7.
Never turn off my phone, though I will let it drain completely once a month. Every night I keep it plugged into my Macbook Pro on my nightstand.
I'd be annoyed by that. That would make me turn it off for sure every night.
I don't want to jailbreak so this is a case where I curse Apple's restrictions because if they would just provide some official APIs to control the radios then there would probably be at least 10 different apps in the app store to automatically put the phone into airplane mode on a fixed time schedule. Even 5 years ago my Windows Mobile phone could do that, and it could look in my calendar for when I was on a flight and do the same, it could detect meetings and switch to silent, and it could set my WiFi on or off depending on my location.
I also like the idea of an app that can only let calls through from certain numbers during nightime hours but I suspect that is also prevented on non-jailbroken phones by missing Apple official APIs.
I leave my phone on all the time because I'm very unlikely to be called in the middle of the night. The only time I switch it to airplane mode at night is if I'm in a different timezone where someone might call me during UK daytime hours and wake me in the middle of the night (e.g. if I'm in the USA).
I never switch my iPhone 4 off entirely. With the phone and location services enabled 24/7 but WiFi, Bluetooth and all push and automatic fetch services off, I often get 10 days between charges. My record is just over 13 days and that was still with some light useage. I suspect that if I charged my phone and then sat it on a desk and never activated the screen then I would probably get 14 or 15 days standby before the battery died (of course how I could tell if it was still alive without waking it up now and then is another matter). Sitting there just listening to the network consumes a really tiny amount of power.
- Julian
I also like the idea of an app that can only let calls through from certain numbers during nightime hours but I suspect that is also prevented on non-jailbroken phones by missing Apple official APIs.
I leave my phone on all the time because I'm very unlikely to be called in the middle of the night. The only time I switch it to airplane mode at night is if I'm in a different timezone where someone might call me during UK daytime hours and wake me in the middle of the night (e.g. if I'm in the USA).
I never switch my iPhone 4 off entirely. With the phone and location services enabled 24/7 but WiFi, Bluetooth and all push and automatic fetch services off, I often get 10 days between charges. My record is just over 13 days and that was still with some light useage. I suspect that if I charged my phone and then sat it on a desk and never activated the screen then I would probably get 14 or 15 days standby before the battery died (of course how I could tell if it was still alive without waking it up now and then is another matter). Sitting there just listening to the network consumes a really tiny amount of power.
- Julian
I never turn mine off, it just sits on the dock, sleeping, regaining it's energy.... Just like me 
You know that the air is PACKED with radio waves and invisible noise whether your cell phone and router are on or off right?
So much vitriol over this guy's comment. Do I think he's right? Probably not. But I suspect we'll learn a lot in the coming years about all this stuff. We always do. Look at plastics, which once were "the best thing ever". sheesh