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Ask HN: Do you turn your phone off ever?

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Re: Ask HN: Do you turn your phone off ever?

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Mute them and put them in "Do not disturb" so they don't vibrate either? What other noise does your phone make?

As far as I've found, I can't make my iPhone not make the low-battery sound.

The low battery sound has always been silent for me when the silent rocker is switched. Do not disturb then means nothing on the screen at all.

Re: Ask HN: Do you turn your phone off ever?

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mute them and put them in "Do not disturb" so they don't vibrate either? What other noise does your phone make?

As far as I've found, I can't make my iPhone not make the low-battery sound.

The iPhone does not play a low-battery sound when the mute switch is on.

The only sound that plays is sound that you specifically asked for, like music or sound from a video, the alarm and sound from badly behaving apps.

Re: Ask HN: Do you turn your phone off ever?

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I probably restart it every couple of weeks, and I switch it off at the movies, because the alarm can turn sound back on.

When I was on-call, and then got a weekend off, I turned it off. Someone always tried to call. But I'm not in that 24/6 space anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Do you turn your phone off ever?

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Always set to silent. Never turn it off but I tend to not even take it with me most of the time. Important stuff never happens via mobile phone or social media anyway.

That's strange. Do you effectively just use your mobile as a landline then? I don't see the point in owning one if you don't take it with you.

Re: Ask HN: Do you turn your phone off ever?

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In theaters. Partly because phones cannot be trusted to make zero noise otherwise (terrible OS design, in my opinion).

Mute them and put them in "Do not disturb" so they don't vibrate either? What other noise does your phone make?

My previous phone used to reboot at inconvenient times, playing an unmutable startup sound.
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