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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by rdl on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:57PM (#14305820)
I solved this (when sleeping in a military transient housing bay or something) by sleeping on top of my phone, in airplane mode, with a vibrate-only alarm set for one time, and then a separate phone or alarm set for audio alarm 5 minutes later. Direct vibration onto skull is pretty effective way to wake up.
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by coldtea on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:27AM (#14307378)
Missing calls while sleeping on airplane mode, though, is not really compelling...
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by toomanybeersies on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:15AM (#14307568)
I always put my phone on silent before I go to bed. There's no way I'm getting woken up to someone ringing me.
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by ciaranm on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:41AM (#14307694)
I use do not disturb mode between 11pm and 9am. If you're in my contacts list it'll ring (silent), otherwise you're going straight to voicemail. The concept of being woken up by phone a phone call (other than being actively on call for some reason) is crazy.
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by dancryer on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:56AM (#14307770)
Do you never worry about missing a family emergency call? Like an accident or death or similar?

I don't accept general calls overnight, but I'd hate to miss the call.

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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by tnorthcutt on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @09:39AM (#14308044)
That's what the "do not disturb" mode is for in iOS - you can let either contacts, or favorites, through IIRC.
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by snuxoll on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:48AM (#14309110)
And it's extremely useful, I don't get random calls in the middle of the night unless it's PagerDuty, select coworkers (in case something is a big-deal before PD calls me 10 minutes after the push notification) and family.
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by lloeki on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:14AM (#14308306)
Precisely: < everyone | no one | favorites | selected contact group > + [ anyone that calls twice within 3 min ]
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by ghaff on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @02:44PM (#14310551)
It's absolutely essential. I travel a fair bit and I have been woken at 3 in the morning by work colleagues.
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Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit by rdl on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:45AM (#14314075)
In this case I had other phones for emergency contact (satcom), and in the event of a genuine emergency I'd be woken up by a soldier or PA system.
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