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The mobile phone as a sleeping companion

Sleep features and associated apps can help you to switch off in the evening and wake up refreshed the next day. Let’s take a look.

In the evening, you lie wide-awake in bed, scrolling through Instagram until late into the night. In the morning, you struggle to get out of bed. According to the Health Forecast study by Sanitas, only half of the Swiss population gets a good night’s sleep. There are features and apps on your smartphone to help.

Tip 1: Switch on Night Shift

The blue light from smartphones prevents our bodies from producing melatonin. However, this is the very hormone we need to go to sleep. The solution is Night Shift mode, which can be found on both iPhones and Android devices under ‘Settings’ > ‘Display (and brightness)’.

Tip 2: Keep regular sleep hours

Almost everyone uses the alarm. Right next to it is another less well-known feature: Bedtime Mode. This reminds us of our scheduled bedtime (instructions for Android and iPhone).. It is generally recognised that keeping regular sleep hours is best, as it gets our bodies used to routine.

Tip 3: Sleep undisturbed

Activate Do not Disturb for Bedtime Mode to mute messages and calls (instructions for Android and iPhone).

Tip 4: Sleep tracking

Sleep apps analyse your sleep and wake you during a favourable sleep phase. After a few days, you will get a picture of your sleep quality. Your smartphone normally does this using the microphone or ultrasound, so you’ll need to put your mobile on your pillow. A smartwatch, which also measures your pulse and movements, can provide even more precise data.

Popular apps include:

Mobiles next to the bed – a controversial topic. To experience a better night’s sleep, some people swear by banning the mobile phone from the bedroom. What’s your opinion? We look forward to hearing what you think!

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I have a number of electrical devices right next to, underneath and in front of me.

Starting about 2m from the foot of the TV with an Apple TV box, as well as a Panasonic sound system including small boxes in every corner and a small sub.

There is a Sonos amp on the bedside table and the speakers are under the bed.

There is always the iPad, iPhone and smartphone next to it, as well as a Philips Hue Iris lamp and the Apple Watch on my wrist. Oh yes, the aquarium is still babbling away in the bedroom 😉

I’ve never had any problems sleeping, and apparently my two cats haven’t either, they come into the bedroom voluntarily and sleep there at night too.😺

Addendum, the WiFi Box 1 is also at the front of the TV.

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@Samsi @roku73

I am neither electrosensitive nor an opponent of WLAN or mobile, quite the opposite. By profession, I have electricity, bits and bytes and electromagnetic waves in my blood 🙂. And no matter what’s out there, I don’t have any trouble sleeping. But I’m surrounded by technology all day, so I’ve declared the bedroom a technology-free zone.

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@hed

The technology-free zone thing certainly makes sense. Because this way our body recovers better. This is particularly advisable for the youngest as well as the oldest and the seriously ill.

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Mobiles next to the bed – a controversial topic. To experience a better night’s sleep, some people swear by banning the mobile phone from the bedroom. What’s your opinion? We look forward to hearing what you think!

i think it’s not bad, but can just put the phone more far from bed!! 😊

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I have two cell phones, one is on the next bed as an alarm clock, the other is only in flight mode but about 3m away from the bed. If I can’t sleep, I can listen to quiet sleep music on my alarm clock cell phone. Works well. But I never, ever want a TV and WiFi box in the bedroom. There has to be some kind of detox phase…

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