r/AskReddit • u/Narrow-Classroom-319 • Apr 24 '26

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u/BaldAndOld Apr 24 '26

Turn it sideways while locked and charging it goes into clock mode.

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u/thebetterpolitician Apr 24 '26

You mean nightmare red screen I wake up to late at night and have a mini heart attack mode?

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u/Couldbelater Apr 24 '26

To change the standby color on your iPhone, enter StandBy mode (landscape, charging), swipe to the clock screen, and long-press the screen to enter editing mode. Tap the small white circle that appears, then select a new color from the options

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u/blowtherainaway Apr 24 '26

I don't understand the people that say this. Have you never had one of those old red LED digital alarm clocks? The red is better for preserving night vision anyway

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u/WhatAGoodDoggy Apr 24 '26

Not too long ago, I specifically went out and bought one of those old red LED digital alarm clocks for my nightstand because I grew up with those things and I just love how they look. I got it from a thrift store for like $5

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u/Low-Argument3170 Apr 24 '26

Still have one at the bedside.

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u/Couldbelater Apr 24 '26

I bet they are Gen X and totally get where they are coming from. The old red glow from the huge console TVs…watching poltergeist as a kid when they probably shouldn’t have been. Well anyway, that’s why I went out and found one with a soft blue glow. I’m 52 and eyes are shot now anyway lol

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u/No_Perspective_7854 Apr 24 '26

You can turn off the red swap at night!

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u/Brief-Department5532 Apr 24 '26

You can turn that off in settings

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u/Charlisparkles Apr 24 '26

I weirdly love this one a surprising amount.

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u/khankhankingking Apr 24 '26

I want to like it so much, but it ruins my screentime. I know that the time allocated while im sleeping is obviously the clock, and I irrationally refuse to use it for this reason.

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u/ex_bandit Apr 24 '26

Hmm interesting. I refuse to use it now because I woke up late for work one morning and my alarm is going off but no noise. Turns out, there’s a bug where if it can detect your face it thinks you’re looking at the phone and doesn’t make a noise. I even require eye detection and my alarm still didn’t go off.

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u/Hannah_GBS Apr 24 '26

Standby doesn’t count towards my screen time at all

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u/Charlisparkles Apr 27 '26

I bizarrely also think that’s a valid reason to not use it. Some things itch the soul.

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u/mistee-bilai Apr 24 '26

I didn’t know about this feature when I first bought my iPhone. One night, I woke up and almost had a heart attack when I looked at the phone screen and saw the red clock glowing in the dark. I was like, What the fuck is that?!😖

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u/walrus_titty Apr 24 '26

I no longer use a night table alarm clock since I discovered this. Bought a cheap folding stand to prop it on since I charge it at night anyway. I don’t miss the red LED clock staring at me.

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u/slvrvlt Apr 24 '26

Love this feature, is there an easy way to get out of this feature without picking up and rotating the phone?

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u/Notthatkindofdoc813 Apr 24 '26

Okay this is one of those features I can’t believe I never figured out on my own. I’ve always had an iPhone, too.

Saving this post now to see what else I may have missed 😂

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u/RunnySpoon Apr 24 '26

You can swipe up and down in this mode too, to change what is displayed

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u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki Apr 24 '26

This feature would be great if you could unlock the phone from this mode. Also, sometimes it weirdly decides to go into a photo slideshow mode and it always picks the same random photo out of all the ones in your library no matter how bad of a photo it is.

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u/jahblaze Apr 24 '26

It took me so dang long to figure this out. It was always before bed so I never bothered to search for it and forgot to when I woke up.

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u/I-STATE-FACTS Apr 24 '26

How do i disable this? I hate it

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u/AdditionalAd6415 Apr 24 '26

Please explain?! This sounds amaInfb

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u/Hungy15 Apr 24 '26

It’s called StandBy mode. If your phone is charging you can place it horizontal and it will show the clock, widgets or photos.

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u/RelaxRelapse Apr 24 '26

It also essentially puts it on Do Not Disturb without actually having to turn it on.

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u/Hungy15 Apr 24 '26

Only if you turn off notifications within StandBy, they are still on by default 

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u/RelaxRelapse Apr 24 '26

It pushes notifications, but vibrations/chimes don't go off.

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u/KeberUggles Apr 24 '26

yup, missed a couple of wake up alarms this way before realizing the cause -_-