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Help: Alarm Settings

Single Alarm

Multiple Alarms

Edit an Alarm

Single Alarm

Alarm Settings is used to set the alarm time and snooze duration.

Alarm Settings

Setting the Alarm time

The alarm time can be set by dragging up and down. Dragging on the left half of the screen sets the hours. Dragging on the right half of the screen sets the minutes.

Tapping, or tap and holding the stepper controls below the alarm hours or minutes can also be used to set the alarm time.

The alarm will automatically be enabled if you have changed the alarm time.

Adjusting the alarm time

Setting the Snooze duration

You can select a snooze time from four options as shown below.

Selecting a Snooze duration

Snooze gestures

Normally tapping the screen when the alarm is playing will cause a snooze. A swipe or pan will reset the alarm for tomorrow. For some, this distinction of gestures is difficult when waking up.

Turning on Snooze touch as priority will interpret any touch to the screen as a snooze. To reset the alarm for tomorrow, tap and hold a touch on the screen for at least 2.5 seconds.

Selecting a Snooze duration

Swipe right or left^† or tap the Done button to close Alarm Settings and save any changes.

Multiple Alarms

As of version 4.0 of bnClock, you can create multiple alarms. Below are the basic controls for Alarm Settings.

Multiple Alarms Edit Controls

Use the + button to add an alarm. The Edit button is used to put the table of alarms into Edit mode, where you can delete and edit alarms.

Turning on Snooze touch as priority will interpret any touch to the screen as a snooze. To reset the alarm for tomorrow, tap and hold a touch on the screen for at least 2.5 seconds.

You can revert to single Alarm mode by tapping the Single alarm switch. When this is done, all alarms except one are disabled.

Tap the Done button, or swipe right or left^† to exit Alarm Settings

Multiple Alarms, gestures

A long press on an Alarm entry will provide a contextual menu of actions for the Alarm.

Add

Like the + button, it adds a new Alarm.

Delete

Deletes the Alarm

Duplicate

Duplicates the alarm. If the Alarm repeat is on a particular day of the week (e.g., Thursday), the duplicated alarm will be for the next day of the week (Friday).

Edit

Edit the Alarm

Alarms can be enabled or disabled from the table of Alarms. Just tap the button on the right side of the Alarm.

Swiping from left to right will also delete an Alarm

Edit an Alarm

The controls for editing an Alarm are shown below.

Editing an alarm

Tapping the Save button will save the Alarm as it is currently shown. Swiping right or left^† can be used as a shortcut to the Save button. Tapping the Cancel button will exit without making any changes to the Alarm.

You can set the time for the Alarm in two ways. The first is to use the spin dials in the Time row. The other way is to key in the Alarm time directly by using the numeric keypad.

Each Alarm can have an automatic repeat. By default, a new Alarm is set to daily. This means that the Alarm will automatically be rescheduled for the next day. This can be changed by selecting a different repeat setting from the Repeats control. Never means that the alarm will fire once and then disable itself. It will not be scheduled again until you enable it. Daily means that the Alarm will be rescheduled for the next day. The Sunday through Saturday selections mean that the Alarm will occur once per week, on the selected day of the week.

Snooze can be enabled or disabled for each Alarm. When enabled, the snooze duration can be selected from a list of snooze times.

Each Alarm can have a sound associated with it. By default, the sound is the built-in sound titled Tweedle. The sound can be selected from a list of built-in sounds, or an item from you media library can be selected. See Sound Settings help for more details on choosing an Alarm sound.

^†Swipe right or left works on devices running iOS 12 or earlier. On devices running iOS 13 or later, a swipe down will save and exit Alarm Settings.