To access these settings, tap the menu button and tap “Settings” on the popup menu as described earlier. There are a couple of settings you can change for timers. When you only have one timer, the dots on the right side of the screen go away. To delete a timer, swipe up or down to access that timer and then tap the trash icon. Swipe up and down to access the different timers currently available. That indicates there are multiple timers. Notice the dots on the right side of the screen. To add a label to the current timer, tap “Label”. Just like with the alarms, you can have multiple timers, so you might want to give them names so you know which timer is timing which activity. To start the timer, tap the red Start button at the bottom. You can see the number of hours, minutes, and seconds on the digital readout on the left as you type the time. If you only tap “10” you will end up with 10 seconds on your timer, not 10 minutes. For example, to set a timer for 10 minutes, tap “1000” on the number pad. Set the amount of time for the timer using the number pad on the right. To use the timer, tap the timer icon at the top of the screen. You can set up multiple timers in the Clock app, making this more useful than your standard kitchen timer, which can usually, at most, only time two things at the same time. The volume buttons can be set to activate the snooze, dismiss the alarm, or to not do anything (default). You can also specify after how much time the alarms should be silenced automatically (1, 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25 minutes, or Never). You can set other settings for the alarms, including the alarm volume, whether or not to gradually increase the volume of the alarms, and which day you want to start the week on. The screen goes black and the time and date displays in a light gray.
To do this, tap the menu button in the upper-right corner of the screen and then tap “Night mode” on the popup menu.
If you’re going to use your Android device as an alarm clock on your nightstand, you can set the screen to night mode so it’s not too bright and doesn’t keep you awake. Once you turn up the volume or adjust the settings so the alarm will sound, the alarm icon on the status bar will be white, not gray. Make sure the volume is adjusted accordingly and that alarms are allowed to sound if you’re using the Do Not Disturb setting in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Notice on the image below the alarm clock icon on the status bar is grayed out because we have Total Silence mode on (the icon to the left of the alarm clock icon). When you set an alarm, you must make sure your device is not set to silent mode or Do Not Disturb. To return to the main Clock app screen, tap the back button in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Swipe up and down on the number of “minutes” on the Snooze length dialog box and then tap “OK”. In the Alarms section of the Settings screen, tap “Snooze length”. To do this, tap the menu button in the upper-right corner of the screen. You cannot set a custom snooze time for each alarm separately, but you can change the snooze time for all alarms. Unlike the alarm on iOS, you can adjust the snooze time for alarms on Android. Note that there is no confirmation for this action. If you don’t need the alarm anymore, show the settings by tapping the down arrow on the right and then tap the trash can icon to delete the alarm. Tap the one you want to use and then tap “OK”. If you want to use this option all the time (which we recommend), tap “Always”.Ī list of Ringtones displays on a popup dialog box. To access a list of available ringtones, tap “Media Storage” and then tap “Just Once” to use that option this time only. However, if you want to use a different ringtone, tap “Default ringtone (Oxygen)”.Ī popup dialog box displays asking you to choose how you want to complete this action. The Oxygen ringtone is selected as the default ringtone that will sound when the alarm goes off. Notice that the deselected days do not have white circles on them. You can change which day starts the week in the Settings, which we’ll discuss later. For our alarm, we want it to go off on weekdays only, so we tap on the first “S” (Sunday) and the last “S” (Saturday). If you’re creating a recurring alarm, tap the “Repeat” check box.īy default, all seven days of the week are selected, indicated with white circles. Tap “AM” or “PM” to choose one, then tap “OK” to set the time.
You can choose minutes in five-minute increments. Then, tap on the minutes on the left and tap the desired minutes on the clock. To set the time for the alarm, tap the hour on the time on the left and then tap the hour on the clock on the right.