Use this if the only thing that could rouse you from your sleep is the thought that someone’s actually calling you.

Use if you want to feel pumped, or if you’re planning to wake up from a nap at 4am. Think: nocturnal animal meets Four Tet in East London. Best kept as a text tone, or maybe the sound you make as you send an email instead of that whooshing noise.Ī hooting night owl singing along to some kind of techno. Not sure it has enough personality to warrant any feeling, sadly. Probably another notification sound.Īs the name suggests, if a torch could have a noise, it would be this. Imagine an ant drilling the foundations for a microscopic house. A solid option if you want to be avant-garde with your alarm choices. It’s like audio lace but is interesting and structureless enough to cut through the fog of sleep. 99% sure this was designed as a notification noise.Īgainst the odds, this one works quite well. Not sure it would wake anyone up though, it’s far too dreamy. Or a bit like the music in Stranger Things when something whimsical and magical is happening. This feels like the beginning of an Ellie Goulding song. Might whoosh you into action though, if you’ve got a need for speed. This one really does go round and round in circles. Not great for an emergency early morning alarm. The hustle and bustle from the street below fills your consciousness, as does the soft tinkle of chimes. A sliver of pale-yellow light streams in through a gap in the heavy curtains. Let’s set the scene: it’s 3pm and you stretch out from a long nap. One of the best.Ĭomfort: 9/10 – loses a point for being a bit sinister. Imagine someone eating candy floss next to a deck chair, watching a Punch and Judy show, covered in fish and chips. If Southend was a ringtone, this would be it. It’s got a useful mild panic about it but still manages to be quite understated and respectful. This one’s like multiple phones going off at once. Which is actually pretty cute, but not strong enough to contend with what’s going on in our dreams. This, however, doesn’t sound like a lighthouse, it sounds like a robot trying to blow a raspberry. The word ‘beacon’ connotes lighthouses, safety, leadership. Enough to propel you into an existential crisis, but you’ll definitely wake up. Imagine a synth bouncing off mirrors indefinitely. It feels like it should be a reassuring submarine noise but, it actually sounds like tiny beeping bullets reverberating in your brain. The default alarm for iPhone 6 and beyond. Is it looking a bit tired? Is it maybe time for an upgrade? Register your interest today and be the first to know about new phones on Three. Not sure which one to pick? We’ve reviewed all them based on comfort and ‘wakeability’ to help you out.īefore we dive head-first into those iPhone alarms – have a look at the iPhone in your hand. If you don’t want to sacrifice your favourite song, stick to the standard iPhone alarms instead. Having it as an alarm will ruin it – yes, we’re speaking from experience. You can use any song from your Music Library as an alarm but be warned – don’t use your favourite song. You obviously want them to pull out of your sleepy state, but you don’t want them to stress you out. Speaking of alarms – they’re important too. Using it can help you get into a better bedtime routine and it tracks your sleep trends every night, too. And that helps you to wake feeling well rested.įor Apple Watch users, watchOS 7 saw the arrival of the new Sleep app. It can also act as an alarm, waking you up at the best point in your sleep cycle. By measuring the quality of your sleep using sensitive sound sensors, it gives insights on what could be affecting your sleep. In fact, a recent survey found that 50% of the UK population felt their sleep was more disturbed than usual.įree iPhone apps like Sleep Cycle can help. Stretching out after a long, luscious lie-in is one of life’s greatest and rarest pleasures.īut it seems we’re getting less sleep than ever since the start of lockdown.

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