The alarm is one of the reasons as Broken_Hippo mentions.
However my concern has more to do with the current state of things rather than the solution for this particular problem. I mean, how is it that I have to go and turn off the phone? shouldn't the phone –apps/devices/etc– try to be less disturbing?
> Are you saying that your device doesn't let you silence application notifications?
It does, but I assumed the DND mode was back to the scheduled mode. I also was _completely sure_ that I had set everything up so, under no circumstance, I was going to be awaken in the middle of the night –spoiler: I was wrong–.
> If you're getting woken up by app notifications in 2021, it's time to RTFM
Yes and no.
- Yes, maybe I should have read the manual, that's right. It was also probably not worth the time spent reading it because:
1. It might not even mention the behaviour of the DND mode after the "DND for 1 hour" finishes.
2. Even if it did mention it, I'd rather be awaken once than spend hours reading mostly useless stuff.
- No, in 2021 there shouldn't be an app/device waking me up unless I explicitly allowed it to happen. Especially if the device *knows I'm sleeping*.
> Phones are noisy, and phones are distracting: how often do you need to quickly check the weather and instead you read your notifications? Keeping it in airplane mode at night is a big life improvement.
Agreed. Phones are noise and distracting. But those are not intrinsic qualities of phones. We have made phones that way, and we can made them any other way we want.
Other people talk about airplane mode. I kind of like it but I'd rather not be disturbed by default, so that wouldn't be necessary.
> what's wrong with it turning off DND mode when your 1hr DND timer expires? What else is the point of the timer?
What I think is wrong is the default being "DND off". I mean, I wished it went back to the previous mode, which was the scheduled DND, but I understand if after the timer the device goes into "default" mode. The piece I don't get is "DND off" being the default mode, as if I was looking forward to be disturbed. Especially if this device in particular knows when I'm sleeping, and there's a mode that is pretty much "DND if I'm sleeping". Maybe I'm looking forward to getting notifications, but who thought I would also be looking forward to be awaken to get them?
> Does that smartwatch not let you toggle DND off until you decide to toggle it back on? Is there no silent mode?
Yes, the silent mode is just DND, it doesn't have sleep mode, or airplane mode, just the DND.
> But to answer your question, people generally want to be disturbed by notifications.
That might be true, and it also might be the reason for "disturb" being the default mode. It's beyond my comprehension, but it wouldn't be the first time when the general public has a different opinion than mine.
And this also brings something up. People generally want to be disturbed by notifications, and *potentially disturb anybody else in the process*. I mean, I wish I didn't have to endure all the buzzing/blinking/noise coming from devices nearby.
That's exactly what I think. I shouldn't have to be configuring stuff to not be disturbed. That should be the default. Then let me configure under what circumstances I want to waken up, like this person is calling, the server went down, etc.
Maybe that's what designers/developers should consider when working on notifications: this notification will potentially wake up someone, let's not do it unless they explicitly asked us to wake them up if this happened.
Yep, someone designed my phone to vibrate if it runs out of battery and needs to shut down. Wonderful in the middle of the night. No way to disable it.
However my concern has more to do with the current state of things rather than the solution for this particular problem. I mean, how is it that I have to go and turn off the phone? shouldn't the phone –apps/devices/etc– try to be less disturbing?