Sleep Mode Turning Off on its Own

Recently there have been several occasions where I have turned my phone on sleep mode, gone to sleep, and sometime in the early morning a notification will get through and wake me up. At first I thought I was forgetting to set it on sleep mode, but last night I was very intentional in making sure it was on. My alarm was set for 8 am and I heard a single ding notification around 5:45am. I looked into my settings and the DND/Sleep Mode preference is already set across all devices. There are no app or phone number exceptions. When I woke up from, and went to handle the notification, I saw that Sleep Mode had at some point been switched off. Why did it turn off on its own? Now I know this has happened at least 3-4 different times within the past few weeks.

iPhone 11, iOS 16

Posted on Jan 7, 2023 5:28 AM

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Jan 9, 2023 1:21 PM in response to Dillydallysally

Greetings Dillydallysally, 

Is the notification from the same app each time? When you notice the Sleep Focus is disabled, is it also disabled on all devices or is that only happening on one device? 


You also mentioned that this happens around the same time, when it happens. Do you have anything else set up to occur during the same time? An alarm for something else, a change in Light to Dark mode, etc? 

If you haven’t already, be sure that yo’ve taken a moment to disable your Sleep Focus on your iPhone and then set it up again. This way we can be sure the settings are being applied directly on your iPhone and not necessarily transferring from device to device. Let us know if that changes anything for you. We do understand that may take a few days to test. 

Turn your Sleep Focus on or off on iPhone

Turn on or schedule a Focus on iPhone


Delete a Focus
When you no longer need a Focus you set up, you can delete it.
1. Go to Settings> Focus.
2. Tap the Focus, scroll to the bottom of the screen, then tap Delete Focus.
If you delete a provided Focus, you need to set it up again by going to Settings > Focus, then tapping the plus sign.

Thanks.

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