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StandBy Mode iPhone uses

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1 day ago

March 8, 2025

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Summary

Turn your iPhone into an alarm clock.

See the time, temperature, and battery level clearly on your phone’s display.

Use nighttime mode to maintain sleep with a dim red-tinted screen.

Your iPhone can be used at all times of the day, even when you aren’t necessarily planning to. Obviously, you likely spend a lot of time during the day texting, scrolling, looking things up, calling, and creating content, but there’s something useful you can do with it at night you might not be aware of.

Many people use their iPhone as an alarm clock at night by resting it on top of their nightstand, offering quick access to a wide variety of information, including the current temperature, missed calls, the battery level, and more. This is where StandBy Mode comes into play. Standby Mode is a special mode you can set your iPhone 13 and above (with iOS 17) to while you’re charging it (it works best on iPhones with an always-on display).

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The feature doesn’t need to be used at night, but this is likely when most people will find it useful. For Standby Mode to work, your iPhone needs to be positioned in landscape orientation. With all that in mind, below is everything you can do with your iPhone in StandBy Mode.

1 Make it an alarm clock

Display the time so it’s easy to see

Using your iPhone in StandBy mode offers a clear clearer view of your iPhone. As mentioned above, if you’re laying it down on your nightstand, you likely have to crane your neck, shuffle your body around, and hoist it up — and still probably pick up the phone to see what time it is. But with StandBy Mode, the phone will clearly display the time, and you can even choose the font and what the display looks like.

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To turn on StandBy Mode, follow the steps below:

Tap Settings on your iPhone.
Scroll down to StandBy (under Siri). Tap it.
Toggle on StandBy.

By doing this, any time you connect your phone to power and turn it on its side, it will enter StandBy Mode. The first thing your device will do is display an alarm clock.

2 Night Mode will help you stay asleep

This feature works with Sleep Mode

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While you’re using StandBy Mode, you may not want to deal with the brightness of the on-screen alarm clock constantly. If, like many people, you try to eliminate distractions at night, you probably put your phone in Sleep Mode. Sleep Mode silences any notifications that you haven’t deemed from emergency contacts and doesn’t ping or light up while you’re asleep. This keeps your phone from waking you up accidentally.

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When using Night Mode in StandBy mode, the screen uses a low, ambient light and displays everything in a red tint. This aims to help you stay asleep and not be bothered by the presence of the clock or whatever else you’re displaying on your phone at the time.

You can toggle this feature on in the StandBy mode menu, too.