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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>The only sound that plays is sound that you specifically asked for, like [...] sound from badly behaving apps.

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

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post #27

These responses seem completely alien to me. Do those of you who turn your phones off or leave them places not have spouses/children to be responsible for, aging parents/grandparents to help out with, or in generally want to be available for friends when they need anything or just want to grab a beer and catch up?

That's why I like having a landline. Switch the mobile off at night but for life or death emergency important people have my home number.

Good point about children: I dare not be incommunicado during the day.

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

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post #27

These responses seem completely alien to me. Do those of you who turn your phones off or leave them places not have spouses/children to be responsible for, aging parents/grandparents to help out with, or in generally want to be available for friends when they need anything or just want to grab a beer and catch up?

We somehow survived w/o back in the day, and that feeling of constantly being contactable, or feeling you need to be, is debilitating imo.

ah survivorship bias, thats an old standby.

I very much want my child and anyone who may be charged with keeping them safe to be able to contact me 24/7. Too much can go wrong too fast to not be able to be there for those that I care about.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>The only sound that plays is sound that you specifically asked for, like [...] sound from badly behaving apps.

This got downvoted, so let me rephrase:

"Unfortunately, where you listed the example of 'badly behaving apps' as one of the sounds it does play, this shows that in many cases the only way to be sure that it will not play sounds is to turn the power off. That is the only way to know this will not happen."

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

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post #27

These responses seem completely alien to me. Do those of you who turn your phones off or leave them places not have spouses/children to be responsible for, aging parents/grandparents to help out with, or in generally want to be available for friends when they need anything or just want to grab a beer and catch up?

We somehow survived w/o back in the day, and that feeling of constantly being contactable, or feeling you need to be, is debilitating imo.

'Constantly being contactable' is something of an old person's gripe, because they grew up with being unreachable by default. I walked 30 mins to school when I was 8, and took day-long biking trips with my younger brother at 14 yo without having a phone.

Almost unheard of these days (depending on where you live).

Personally I never switch off my iphone or even set it silent, but after years of living an event-driven life I learned to ignore those interruptions.

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

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Mine's on silent 24/7, no vibration, but never off. Also, being a millennial woman with small pockets that don't fit my phone, I almost always have it in my hand so I can see anything I've missed every 15-20 minutes at least. I have all of my notifications for social media turned off.
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