How sleep mode works in ios 12

I am sure that on more than one occasion it has happened to you that, having awakened in the middle of the night due to various circumstances, you have taken a look at your iPhone and you have found a good handful of notifications on the lock screen. And what have you done? Well, indeed, you have not been able to resist curiosity, you have examined these notifications in search of something interesting, and you have ended up losing the concentration of the dream. Well, in order to avoid this distraction, Apple has included with iOS 12 a new Sleep mode. If you want to know what it is, don't miss it below.

Sleep mode in iOS 12 will prevent you from being distracted in the middle of the night

Apple has set a goal in iOS 12 to reduce our dependence on mobile devices and also avoid distractions, and for this, it has included some new features within the Do not disturb section, available for both iPhone and iPad.

In this sense, if you access the Do not disturb section within the Settings app of your iOS device, as long as you already have iOS 12 installed, even in its preliminary testing phase, you can find a new function called Sleep ( Bedtime in the version in English operating system) which prevents notifications from being displayed on the iPhone or iPad lock screen during idle time. This eliminates the temptation to browse notifications and open applications in the middle of the night.

How to activate Sleep mode on your iPhone or iPad

• First, you must open the Settings application on your iPhone or iPad. Then, scroll down and select the "Do not disturb" section. Within this section, click on the "Scheduled" option to activate it. Then, select a period of time during which you want Do not disturb to be enabled so that notifications and calls are muted, in addition to dimming the screen brightness of the device in question. Use for it the wheel of hours and minutes that will appear in order to establish a specific start time and a specific end time. The most normal thing is that you establish the approximate time when you go to sleep, and the time at which you wake up.

With Sleep mode is enabled, when you activate the screen of your device, the entire screen darkens and turns black, offering only the time, the current load of the device and a notice that the Sleep mode or "Bedtime" is activated.

That is, you will have the notifications accessible in the notification center itself, but the notifications will not be shown on the lock screen of the device in which you have enabled Do not disturb mode and, within it, Sleep mode.

This is how you will see the screen of your iPhone or iPad when, with the Sleep mode activated, you consult it in the middle of the night. IMAGE | MacRumors

What is the difference between Do Not Disturb mode and Sleep mode?

When you have Do Not Disturb mode turned on but you have not activated Sleep mode, all incoming calls and notifications will still be muted, but notifications will be visible directly on the lock screen.

The idea of ​​the Sleep mode is, precisely, to avoid the distraction that in the middle of the night it can mean to realize that we have pending notifications. Therefore, if you want to sleep better, I advise you to activate this “Bedtime Mode” that, although simple, can be really effective.