How to set up bedtime mode on your phone.

On an iPhone: a sleep schedule and Sleep Focus

These steps follow Apple’s guide for iOS 27.

1. Open the Health app, tap Browse, then Sleep, then Sleep again, and tap Get Started.
2. Set your bedtime and wake-up time and the days they apply to. You can keep separate schedules, for example for weekdays and weekends, with or without an alarm.
3. Add a wind-down time, from 15 minutes to 3 hours before bed. Sleep Focus starts when it begins.
4. In Settings, Focus, Sleep, choose who may still reach you and how the Lock Screen and Home Screen look while it is on.

Sleep Focus then turns on and off with your schedule, and you can switch it by hand from Control Center: tap Focus, then Sleep.

On Android: Bedtime mode

These steps follow Google’s Android help; menus differ a little between phone makers.

1. Open Settings, tap Digital Wellbeing, then Bedtime mode, then Bedtime routine.
2. Choose a schedule with your sleep times and days, or have it turn on while the phone charges within set hours.
3. Pick the screen options: grayscale, keep the screen dark, dim the wallpaper or a dark theme used only at bedtime. You can also have Do Not Disturb come on with it, and Bedtime mode end at your next alarm.

Make the last hour boring

• Grey beats willpower. A grey screen is less inviting, and in a small trial it cut daily use: a grayscale phone.
• Charge it elsewhere. The simplest fix in the sleep research is a place, not a setting: your phone before bed.
• Keep the people who matter. A quiet night should still let the school or a parent through: let family through Do Not Disturb.

With the phone in another room

With the phone charging in the hallway, Lychnos Ring is designed to show the time and your first meeting at a turn of the hand, and to let a reminder buzz on your finger, with nothing on it to scroll at midnight. It is in development and makes no health claims.

Sources, read 4 November 2026: Apple, iPhone User Guide for iOS 27, set up sleep in Health on iPhone and turn your Sleep Focus on or off; Google, Android Help, manage how you spend time on your Android phone with Digital Wellbeing. Menus change between versions and phone makers.