Question about properly turning on Series 7 Alarm + Sleep Focus

[Gator5000e]

Hello all. My question is how to properly set up an alarm on my S7 running 9.4 with Sleep Focus. I have the alarm set up properly to go off a 7AM daily. So when I go to sleep, what I usually do is swipe up for the Control panel than tap the Bell, Theater Mode and the Moon symbol to turn on sleep. When I do this, I will usually get the alarm but only via the vibration/haptic. No alarm sound will play. I want the Bell tapped so I don't get any calls or notifications/text ringing through during the night. But I guess this turns off the alarm music/tone as well?

So, any suggestions on how to get both the haptic vibration AND the alarm music/tone to play but keeping calls and text notifications form coming through would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[chadamorrill]

Interesting. Seems like a lot of manual steps for something that can happen on its own through Sleep Focus.

1. On your phone, if you go SETTINGS, and FOCUS, then SLEEP, the first two options are for notification (phone and apps). For people, it's only my wife and kids, and then I only allow notifications from my front door lock.

2. Next, I customize my watch screen to a different face, displaying a large digital clock and my activity monitor. Then I choose the specific options, for SLEEP SCREEN and SHOW TIME.

3. Finally, I set my automatic schedule. I do NOT set the alarm on this screen, as I never really know what time I want to wake up. I'll set that manually, but that's the only thing I ever have to do. If I don't sent the alarm and sleep in, sleep focus will set everything else automatically (including turning the screen off).

I don't use or set the bell, (usually it's set to silent 100% of the time), but I imagine, given the sleep focus settings for apps above, you could leave the bell ON while in sleep focus, and the alarm will sound in the morning. Make sure the watch settings for SLEEP are set to "track," and charge reminders set to "on" as well.

 

[Gator5000e]

Thank you for the detailed answer! I will check all this.

 

[cwosigns]

Theater Mode is what’s killing your audible alarm. It turns the AOD off and changes all incoming notifications to vibrate.

 

[Gator5000e]

Ah, ok. Thank you. I downloaded Apple's Guide to Watch OS 9.4 and it says nothing that I could find on this. Appreciae the reply.