The bad news? It’s easy to get tripped up by Do Not Disturb’s “automatic rules,” which can easily muzzle your alarm clock if you’re not careful.
#DESKTOP CLOCK SCREENSAVER ANDROID#
The good news is that Android does a pretty good job of warning you if you’re about to override an alarm by switching on Do Not Disturb mode manually. Ben Patterson / IDGĪndroid will generally warn you about silenced alarms before you turn on Do Not Disturb mode manually not so with “automatic rules,” though. When it’s set to “Total Silence” mode, Do Not Disturb will muzzle all Android notifications and alerts, including alarms. If you’re wondering how you overslept an Android alarm, Android’s Do Not Disturb feature is a likely culprit. Doing so will open the Downloads browser-and from there, you can pick any sound file in the Audio folder, or one you’ve saved in Google Drive. Just open an alarm in the Clock app, tap the Alarm sound setting (the one that looks like an alarm bell), then tap Add new. Want to wake up to Led Zeppelin? No problem.
As it happens, you can set the Clock app to rouse you with any song or sound you want, from Van Halen’s “Jump” to a sound file you grabbed from the web. Nope, you don’t have to wake up to a canned Android alarm tone. Now, whenever I’ve got my Android phone docked or plugged into a charger, the current time flashes on the screen of my handset, and there’s even a night mode that keeps the screen relatively dim while leaving the clock visible. That’s why I love using the Clock app as my Android screensaver.
When you use the Clock app as your screensaver, a digital clock will appear on your screen (very faintly, if you enabled the “night mode” setting) whenever your Android handset is connected to its charger. When I get up in the middle of the night (the older I get, the more it happens), I like taking a peek at the time-and I’d rather do it without having to click a button on my Android phone.
#DESKTOP CLOCK SCREENSAVER INSTALL#
(If you’re not already using the Clock widget, just tap and hold a blank space on the Android home screen, tap Widgets, then install a Clock widget by tapping its icon.) Use the clock as your screensaver That may sound obvious, but I only discovered the shortcut myself a few weeks ago, and I can’t believe I’d missed it so long. Just tap the Clock widget-the one that looks like a digital or analog clock face-and you’ll jump immediately to the Clock app. Luckily, there’s a handy one-tap shortcut to the Clock app, and it’s probably already sitting on your home screen. Opening Android’s Clock app gets a lot more fun once you’re hip to this trick.
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