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How to turn your old iPhone into an alarm clock


If you have an old iPhone and want to do something other than trading it in, you can make it your dedicated white noise machine and alarm clock. Here's how.

Recycling is a valid option, but even if your old handset isn’t as speedy as your new one, it’s almost assuredly more powerful than any sleep machine or smart alarm clock on the market. Finally, with on-again, off-again tariffs making electronic gadgets harder to come by for a good price, rethinking what an existing device can do is intelligent alchemy. Phones running iOS 17 or later have StandBy mode, which displays your choice of stylized clock faces when the handset is charging and oriented horizontally.

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